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Replaying traffic is a core tool in your toolbox when you need to reproduce a tricky bug or validate how your app behaves. Traffic replay is especially valuable for testing complex software applications that rely on APIs and microservices, where integration and functionality must be thoroughly validated.

A few years ago I was on call during the Super Bowl. At the time I was working for an observability vendor and one of our customers had an outage caused by a surge in user traffic. But our monitoring system didn’t have enough data to know what went wrong and I sat on a call for 2 hours painfully listening to them spinning up more servers and trying to catch up with the user load.

Today's Recipe: Vibe-coding an identity-provider integration for Cortex.

An email blacklist is a database that lists IP addresses or domains suspected of sending spam or malicious emails. Mail servers use these lists to decide whether to deliver or reject incoming messages. Understanding how blacklists work is essential for keeping your messages deliverable and your domain reputation intact.

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When your company has multiple offices or operational sites – whether that’s across the U.S. or around the world – getting alerts to the right team isn’t as easy as just checking who’s on duty. Events can come from a wide range of sources tied to different physical locations, time zones, or even separate departments, and not every alert is meant for every team. Let’s say your company has operations in New York, Dallas, and San Francisco.

As the witching hour approaches, your data center hums quietly – servers glowing like jack-o’-lanterns in the dark. Everything seems calm… until suddenly, your phone lights up with a chilling alert. CPU usage is spiking. Network latency is haunting your system. The ghost of downtime lurks nearby. Welcome to the spooky world of IT alerting – where nightmares come true if your team isn’t ready.

The world of cloud computing is undergoing a significant transformation, driven by the rapid adoption of Artificial Intelligence (AI). As AI continues to evolve and improve, it's becoming increasingly clear that access to advanced AI infrastructure is crucial for businesses to remain competitive. During Civo Navigate London 2025, Josh Mesout spoke about the importance of of AI for the future of cloud computing and how Civo is working to democratize access to advanced AI infrastructure.

When external SaaS providers or cloud services degrade or go down, engineers often find themselves wondering if the issue they're encountering is local or more widespread. The answers they find are usually slow to surface, limited in detail, or entirely dependent on the provider's updates. Vendor-controlled status pages and third-party aggregators don’t provide the timely, independent visibility that's necessary to quickly and accurately identify the root cause of slowdowns.