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Chiseled Ubuntu containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21

Today we are announcing chiseled containers for OpenJRE 8, 17 and 21 (Open Java Runtime Environment), coming from the OpenJDK project. These images are highly optimized for size and security, containing only the dependencies that are strictly necessary. They are available for both AMD64 and ARM64 architectures and benefit from 12 years of security support.

Signals Is Lighting Up the Future of On-Call: Eight (Yes, 8!) New Features Just Released

We’re going beyond notifications — and building the most powerful, flexible, and team-first on-call experience on the market. When we launched Signals, it was because alerting and on-call desperately needed a reset. Legacy tools hadn’t evolved with the way modern teams work — they were individual-centric, inflexible, and wildly overpriced. Signals changed that.

Do You Know How Many IPs Your CIDR Block Really Has? Understanding Network Capacity and Allocation

Many people use CIDR blocks every day without knowing exactly how many IP addresses they actually have. A CIDR block like /24 gives exactly 256 possible IP addresses, while a /29 block gives 8, and each size gives a different number you can count on for planning. Not understanding this can leave networks overcrowded or wasteful, leading to problems later.
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Getting to the Zero Engineers Code Development Moment

The software world is inching rapidly toward an era once thought impossible: a time when no engineers are needed to write code. Not because software will disappear, but because the tools writing the code will be intelligent, autonomous, and capable of reasoning, generating, and deploying entirely on their own. We're not there yet-but we're getting very close.

What Is Azure SQL?

Modern cloud solutions mean much more than just data storage. Cloud technologies cover virtual services, including analytics, databases, networking, servers, and storage via the internet. Such a giant as Microsoft is among the most prominent cloud providers with its Azure platform. “Platform as a Service,” or PaaS, is a popular solution for database specialists. It is a powerful database engine that allows you to perform most database management routines.

Spike vs. PagerDuty: Which On-Call Management Tool Is Better in 2025

If you’re stuck between choosing Spike vs. PagerDuty for your on-call management, you’re at the right place. I wrote this blog post to end your confusion and help you make a better choice. I’ve presented a comparative analysis for these two tools across 4 key criteria (keep reading to find what they are). For each criterion, there’s either a winner or a tie. When it’s a tie, each tool gets one point. If there’s a winner, that tool gets two points.

Prometheus Gauges vs Counters: What to Use and When

Choosing the wrong metric type in Prometheus can lead to inaccurate dashboards, false positives in alerting, and missed indicators of system failure. Gauge metrics are intended for tracking values that can go up and down, such as memory usage, queue depth, or the number of active connections. Unlike counters, which only increment (or reset on restart), gauges reflect the current state of a resource at scrape time.

The $465M Bug: What Every Dev Needs to Know About Code Health

Is your codebase quietly killing developer productivity? In this talk from GitKon, Jai Predeesh (co-founder of DeepSource) breaks down why code health is more than a buzzword... it’s a critical lever for preventing failures, improving dev morale, and scaling without firefighting. From Knight Capital’s $465M bug to subtle security flaws in AI-generated code, this session shows how automated static analysis can catch the issues that escape human eyes and PR reviews.