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Agentic AI in DevOps: Why Aiden Beats ChatGPT for DevOps Cost Analysis

One of the most common questions we receive is about the difference between Aiden (our DevOps Copilot) and general-purpose AI tools like ChatGPT. The key distinction is that Aiden is an agentic AI platform that can directly connect to your DevOps tools and environments, while ChatGPT remains generic without real-world connections. This fundamental difference transforms Aiden from an advisor to an active participant in your DevOps workflows.

April 2025 Update - Fully Redesigned Signl-Center, Shift Tiers with Escalations, AI Shift and Duty Scheduling, and a new Chat View for the Mobile App

With our latest April update, we are setting a new benchmark in incident management excellence. The Signl-Center in our web portal has undergone a major redesign, delivering a superior, more intuitive layout, enhanced tracking of notifications and escalation workflows, and an upgraded incident chat — redefining how operations and maintenance teams coordinate under pressure.

Is OpenTelemetry ready for Infra Monitoring?

“A system is never the sum of its parts; it's the product of their interaction.” — Russell Ackoff, Systems Thinker Infrastructure monitoring is an attempt to capture and record the product of interactions between various systems. Infrastructure monitoring comes across as challenging and tedious, often spread across multiple tooling system.

12 OpenTelemetry-Compatible Platforms You Should Know in 2025

OpenTelemetry has transformed how engineering teams implement observability. This vendor-neutral framework for collecting metrics, traces, and logs has become indispensable for several reasons: Elimination of vendor lock-in Organizations can switch observability providers without changing instrumentation code, enabling greater flexibility and negotiating power with vendors.

Coredump #007: AI, Open Source, & the Future of Embedded Development

In today's Coredump Session, we dive into a wide-ranging conversation about the intersection of AI, open source, and embedded systems with the teams from Memfault and Goliath. From the evolution of AI at the edge to the emerging role of large language models (LLMs) in firmware development, the panel explores where innovation is happening today — and where expectations still outpace reality. Listen in as they untangle the practical, the possible, and the hype shaping the future of IoT devices.

Application Debugging in Sentry with Flags, Tracing, and Seer

In this video, Cody takes you on a tour or fixing problems in the Unborked marketplace using Flags, Traces, and Seer! Sentry is all about giving you options when it comes to debugging - whether its using the dev toolbar to manage feature flags on the fly, using replays and tracing to dive deep into whats happening in your application, or even using Seer (in beta) to pull all the context from your application together - everything from traces, to errors, to stack traces and more - and give you a root cause of what went wrong, and pull a PR to fix it.

Measuring success in microservices migration projects

Microservices migrations represent significant investments for organizations seeking greater agility, scalability, and development velocity. Yet without clear metrics to guide the journey and measure outcomes, these initiatives risk delivering technical change without meaningful business impact. Establishing appropriate success measures ensures that migration efforts stay aligned with organizational goals while providing visibility into progress and value delivery.

Strangler pattern implementation for safe microservices transition

Moving from monolithic applications to microservices represents a significant architectural transformation. The Strangler Pattern offers a controlled, incremental approach to this migration, enabling organizations to gradually replace functionality while keeping systems operational throughout the transition. This methodology substantially reduces risk compared to complete rewrites, making it an invaluable strategy for organizations with business-critical applications.

Cortex Recognized by Gartner as Representative Vendor in the 2025 Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals

Gartner Market Guide for Internal Developer Portals offers “Platform engineering teams are tasked with improving developer experience, ensuring consistent governance, and enabling discovery and access to software development and delivery capabilities. Platform engineering leaders can use internal developer portals to address these challenges.” Organizations with a current Gartner license can check out the report here.