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SSL Certificates have always been a pain in the butt. From the magical OpenSSL incantations to generate a CSR to the various formats that each webserver requires. Remembering what hardware needs which certificates. Managing scheduled renewals and runbooks for which file goes where. Screw anything up and your site is “Not Secure”. And now Apple wants us to do it every 47 days. Remember when we had HTTP-only websites? Or when certificates lasted three years? Then one?

Running a WordPress site is a dynamic endeavour that goes beyond publishing content. To maintain your online presence, it is essential to ensure website availability, improve performance, and provide a positive user experience. Frequent downtime, slow loading times, or unexpected errors like PHP errors or permissions errors can harm your website's reputation, drive away visitors, and negatively impact search engine rankings.

The $8 trillion customer service industry is experiencing its iPhone moment. While businesses scramble to deploy AI chatbots to cut costs, they're inadvertently accelerating customer defection, with 60% of customers now believing that companies prioritize savings over service quality, according to research by ServiceNow. This isn't a technology problem; it's an intelligence problem.

Smart is as smart as it performs, and intelligence is only proven by outcomes. Salesforce's strategic deployment of Agentic AI through Agentforce has delivered precisely that impact: 18,000 closed deals, over $1 billion in ARR acceleration, and FY26 revenue guidance elevated to $41-$41.3 billion. This isn't just a technological advancement; it's proof of concept for the next era of enterprise revenue architecture.

Effectively monitoring Kubernetes environments remains one of the most challenging aspects of modern application management. As applications grow more complex and distributed, the need for comprehensive visibility becomes paramount. We have continued to deliver major advancements in our Kubernetes monitoring, providing you with deeper insights and more powerful tools to tackle these challenges head-on.

Europe’s open source ecosystem is at a turning point. The Linux Foundation’s Open Source as Europe’s Strategic Advantage: Trends, Barriers, and Priorities for the European Open Source Community amid Regulatory and Geopolitical Shifts report shows organizations across the continent are broadly adopting open source software (OSS). But adoption alone doesn’t guarantee resilience, innovation, or security.

If you work in automotive, you’ve probably already heard of the CRA – the EU’s Cyber Resilience Act. It’s one of the most ambitious pieces of cybersecurity regulation in years. And while it wasn’t written specifically for cars, it’s going to impact a huge part of how software gets built, updated, and maintained across the automotive stack. So here’s the question: how do you prepare for something like the CRA?

Over the past few years at Catchpoint, we’ve benchmarked the digital performance of banks, airlines, hotels, travel aggregators, GenAI platforms, athletic footwear brands, and even ad hoc events like the Super Bowl, Olympics, and Election Day. Each time, our approach focused on the technical metrics performance professionals live and breathe: DNS resolution times, Time to First Byte, page load speeds, and six other core measurements that we'd dissect, analyze, and use to rank companies.