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How One of The Largest Court Systems in the US Recovered From a Stalled ServiceNow Rollout

ServiceNow had been sitting in the Judicial Branch of Arizona in Maricopa County for nearly five years, unused, because it was too complex to roll out. Deputy CIO Keith Bluestein explains what changed when his team brought in InvGate instead, starting with asset management going live and compliant in days. "This is where ServiceNow was in 2009. Everybody can use it. It's very easy to use right out of the box.".

Create uptime monitors by asking Claude Code (MCP demo)

Create and manage uptime monitors without leaving your editor. In this demo I connect Claude Code to UptimeMonitoring's MCP server with one command, then just ask it to monitor six sites. It creates all six, runs the first check, and reports back, then shows the live monitors in the dashboard. What UptimeMonitoring is: MCP is a thin layer over a normal REST API; if you'd rather curl + cron, that path is first-class.

AI is Exposing Observability's Dirty Secret

The 3 pillars of observability are breaking. For years, dev teams relied on Logs, Metrics, and Traces to know when something went wrong. But now? AI agents are writing, deploying, and changing code in real-time. When an AI hallucination pushes a bug to production, standard monitoring sees nothing wrong.To survive the AI era, we need a 4th Pillar of Observability. Watch to find out what it is and why the old way of monitoring just became obsolete.

Why the U.S. Locked Down Fable and Mythos: AI, National Security, and the Workforce Squeeze

The U.S. just barred foreign nationals from accessing two advanced AI models — Fable and Mythos — citing national security. Around the same time, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that AI-enabled cyberattacks are "months, not years" away. In Season 5 of ShipTalk, host Adam and co-host Martin dig into whether that warning is already overdue — and what it means for the people actually defending software.

What Is Synthetic Monitoring and Why Does It Matter?

A website can look healthy on your dashboard and still fail when customers try to use it. So how do you catch problems before anyone notices them? In this video, you'll learn what synthetic monitoring is, how it works, and why IT teams use it to detect website and application issues before they impact real users. Discover how automated user journeys help you monitor availability, performance, and critical business transactions 24/7.