API testing is critical to modern software development, ensuring that applications communicate seamlessly and function as expected. However, setting up testing environments that accurately mimic real-world conditions can be complex, time-consuming, and costly. APIs often change, and dependencies on third-party services or backend systems can delay the development process, making it challenging to conduct reliable tests in real-time.

Platform engineering is rapidly evolving as businesses look for more efficient ways to manage infrastructure, automate workflows, and improve developer productivity. In this edition, we’ll explore the top 10 platform engineering platforms for September 2024, optimized for scalability, automation, and ease of use. These platforms empower developers to focus on building code while platform engineers handle infrastructure with reduced complexity.

In the ever-evolving software development landscape, ephemeral environments are short-lived, automated setups used for testing, staging, or development. These environments exist only temporarily—created when necessary and destroyed afterward—allowing developers to work in isolation without impacting others. Ephemeral environments are crucial for efficient, conflict-free development, accelerating time-to-market, and enhancing team collaboration.

In today’s digital era, organizations increasingly rely on collaboration platforms to enhance productivity and streamline workflows. Microsoft SharePoint stands out as a leading solution, offering robust features for document management, team collaboration, and information sharing. It enables teams to work together efficiently, regardless of their physical locations, by providing a centralized hub for content, knowledge, and applications.

Debugging Python code is crucial for guaranteeing the uptime and performance of your application, and logging in Python is a great solution to streamline your debugging workflow. Python, a general-purpose programming language, includes a logging module in its standard library, offering a flexible framework for generating log messages from Python programs.

The performance monitoring industry has been using the word “observability” to a lot of different ends lately. While the trend towards more visibility into services is a good one, it’s also based on a need we see from customers on a day-to-day basis. The need to take back control of network visibility is strong in the face of complexity that has been rapidly increasing for years.

And with that, we have concluded another incredible Navigate event As Navigate Europe 2024 comes to an end, we couldn't be more grateful for everyone involved, from our sponsors, attendees, and most importantly, the Civo team. It was a packed event with over 40 talks and workshops on a range of topics, such as artificial intelligence (AI), emerging technology, LLMs, and security in the cloud native space.

It has taken a while - but it's here. Streamlining the Spectate platform with our new branding. It's faster than ever, looks much, much better (at least we think so ) and is more stable than it has ever been.

One of the things about OpenTelemetry that’s easy to miss if you’re not spending the whole day in the ins and outs of the project is just how much stuff it can do—but that’s what I’m here for! Today, I want to go through the project and give you a guide to the various parts of OpenTelemetry, how mature they are, and what you can expect over the next six months or so. I ranked these elements by relative maturity across the entire project.