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obkio

HTTP Monitoring: What Is It and How to Do It

Apr 8, 2026 By Andrii Kernitskyi In Obkio
When users complain that an app or website is slow, the first question is always the same: Is it the network or the application? HTTP monitoring gives you the answer. Network metrics like latency and packet loss tell you what's happening on the wire. But they don't tell you whether users are actually feeling the impact. HTTP monitoring closes that gap.
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Aiven

Introducing Aiven Apps: Applications next to your data, where they belong

Apr 8, 2026 By Francesco Tisiot In Aiven
Unify your code and data. Aiven Apps lets teams deliver real-time applications faster, without building new platforms. No lock-in. No custom pipelines. No egress surprises. We are excited to announce the Limited Availability (LA) launch of Aiven Apps! For over a decade, Aiven has simplified how you store and stream data with an open-source foundation. Over that same time, data volumes have exploded, and so has the friction caused by the distance between where your data is stored and where your code runs.
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Aiven

How a single space broke OpenSearch backups - and how Aiven fixed it for our customers

Apr 8, 2026 By Aleksei Atavin In Aiven
One space character, one broken backup. See how Aiven’s engineering team traced an OpenSearch k-NN bug to its source and implemented a lasting fix. Backing up your OpenSearch indexes via the Snapshot process is vital for disaster recovery, allowing you to restore the indexed data, cluster configuration and state if something goes wrong.
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ivanti

Not All Agents Are Created Equal: Getting Agentic AI Right for IT

Apr 8, 2026 By Meeta Dash In Ivanti
Three months ago, a CIO told me her organization had “already deployed agents.” Her endpoint team assumed she meant the telemetry clients on every managed laptop. Her service desk thought she meant AI chatbots. Meanwhile, her security architect heard “autonomous decision-making.” They were all right and all talking past each other. This is the agent confusion problem.
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rapidspike

2026 Product Roadmap

Apr 8, 2026 By Bryn Dodgson In RapidSpike
Over the past 11 years, we have focused on one problem: ensuring complex conversion journeys work reliably in the real world. Across ecommerce platforms, travel services and large consumer websites, these journeys are where revenue is generated and where reliability matters most. In 2026, our focus sharpens further. The theme for the year is simple: Higher signal trust. Deeper intelligence. Stronger operational resilience.
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icinga

Four Modern PHP Features That Show How Far the Language Has Come

Apr 8, 2026 By Ravi Srinivasa In Icinga
PHP has evolved over the years and has become a lot more reliable, faster and refined. And with the release of PHP 8, which contained many features (named arguments, union types, attributes, constructor property promotion, match expressions, the null safe operator (?->) etc) and optimizations (JIT compiler), PHP has become more faster and cleaner. There are many more improvements and interesting features in the later versions of PHP 8. The 4 features I now rely on and wish PHP had introduced much earlier.
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logicmonitor

Where Most Operational Waste Comes From-and How AI Automation Cuts It

Apr 8, 2026 By Margo Poda In LogicMonitor
Most operational waste comes from fragmented workflows rather than individual performance constraints. An incident begins long before any fix is applied. Alerts trigger, tickets open, and engineers start reconstructing context across systems that were never designed to operate as one. Logs, metrics, past incidents, and runbooks sit in separate tools, each requiring manual lookup, interpretation, and validation before any decision can be made.
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megaport

A Guide to NAT Gateway

Apr 8, 2026 By Ryan Cassily In Megaport
What it is, how it works, when to use it, and how to optimize it. Table of Contents Network Address Translation (NAT) has been around for a long time, playing a critical role in extending the lifespan of IPv4 as well as providing breathing room for deploying IPv6. Enterprises have been using it for decades in their corporate and data center networks as an integral part of their network management and security portfolio.
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What Native Audio in AI Video Actually Means for the Future of Content

What Native Audio in AI Video Actually Means for the Future of Content

Apr 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
In 2026, the arrival of native audio has officially ended the silent film era of generative AI. For years, creators had to hunt for sound effects and manually align voiceovers in post-production, but the new standard is simultaneous generation. Native audio means the AI no longer simply adds sound to a finished clip. Instead, models like Seedance 2.0 on the Higgsfield platform generate audio and video together in a single mathematical pass. This shift from fragmented tools to a unified multimodal architecture is fundamentally changing how content is produced.
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Why Face Swap Is the Smartest Way to A/B Test Visual Creatives Without a Reshoot

Why Face Swap Is the Smartest Way to A/B Test Visual Creatives Without a Reshoot

Apr 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A/B testing has always been a cornerstone of performance marketing. Marketers test headlines, tweak CTAs, adjust layouts, and refine copy continuously. These changes are easy to implement and quick to evaluate. Over time, even small improvements compound into measurable gains. But visual creatives have always been different. They are harder to test, slower to produce, and significantly more expensive to iterate. As a result, one of the most influential elements in a campaign often goes under-tested.
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