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Cloud Outage Preparedness: On-Call Lessons for 2026

Cloud outage preparedness stopped being a nice-to-have this month. In a span of roughly 48 hours, Microsoft Azure lost a big chunk of its West US footprint and Amazon Web Services dropped connectivity between its us-west-2 region in Oregon and the Seattle metro. The AWS event alone rippled outward and knocked DoorDash, Reddit, Hulu, Apple Pay, Snapchat, Fortnite, and the PlayStation Network offline for millions of users, according to incident trackers. Neither outage was caused by anything exotic.

Don't pay for metrics, pay for change: The 2026 guide to engineering metrics

Most engineering leaders are drowning in data but starved for insight. We have dashboards full of metrics, but they often create more questions than answers and rarely tell us what to do next. In the age of AI, where development velocity is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, this problem is only getting worse. Shipping code faster than you can fix it is an existential risk, and a dashboard that doesn't lead to action is just a distraction.

Digital Marketing for Home Improvement: Turning Good Work Into Online Growth

Home improvement businesses depend heavily on trust. Customers are inviting professionals into their homes, often for costly projects that may take days or weeks. Digital marketing is therefore less about chasing attention and more about reducing uncertainty before the first call.

Why Every Modern Security Operation Center Needs Automation and AI

Security teams no longer face a simple monitoring problem. In most cases, they face - While cloud workloads change by the minute, identities move across applications. In general, endpoints appear outside the traditional perimeter. Meanwhile, the modern security operations center must interpret all that activity. It must also not let a genuine threat disappear inside routine noise. Although traditional processes still matter, manual triage cannot carry the entire workload anymore. In fact, analysts lose valuable investigation time if they -

Top tips: Stay one step ahead of boreout, the new burnout

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're talking about boreout, the lesser-known cousin of burnout, and how to stay engaged as AI takes on more of the routine work. There was a time when finishing your work early felt like winning. Now it somehow feels... suspicious. You glance at your inbox and nope, there are no new emails.

What is Cloud-Based SIEM for Security Teams

When an alert fires at 2 a.m., responders need context more than another dashboard. A suspicious authentication event may begin in an identity provider, touch a cloud control plane, appear in an application log, and end with an unusual data transfer. If each signal lives in a separate tool, analysts spend the first part of the incident rebuilding a timeline instead of containing the threat.

4 Cloud-Native Challenges AI SRE Is Solving in 2026 and the 3 New Ones to Look Out For

AI SRE is making real strides in resolving some of the greatest pains related to incident response, troubleshooting, and complex root cause analysis. The on-call rotation, the war room, the week-long RCA, and the ticket queue that ate a third of every platform engineer’s week all look different now than they did two years ago.

What's New in InfluxDB 3.11: A Significant Performance Upgrade for Complex Time Series Workloads

Summary InfluxDB 3.11 delivers major performance and data management updates for growing time series workloads, with significantly faster queries on recent data, expanded support for wide and ultra-sparse schemas, and a more predictable resource profile under load. InfluxDB 3 Enterprise also adds backup and restore, bulk Parquet import, row-level deletes, and a built-in Explorer UI.