Winter has fully set in at Bindplane’s Michigan-based headquarters, but we’re keeping warm with the excitement from this piping-hot announcement and accompanying release. It’s just the thing to ignite the hearts, minds, and typing fingers (?) of our team and observability professionals as we kick off 2025.

President Theodore Roosevelt once said, “When you play, play hard. When you work, don’t play at all.” And while some people might still subscribe to that idea, the reality is that when you play at work, you often work harder – often without even realizing it. That’s because we’re a gaming society, and gamification is how we make the hard things more enjoyable, like exercising our bodies and brains, eating right, getting enough sleep, and managing our money.

It is the era of interconnected systems and 24/7 operations. So, it goes without saying that IT needs to support seamless, reliable services. That is where the concept of workload automation (WLA) stemmed from. It was a way for IT to schedule ‘jobs’ that otherwise would rely on a human operator to do. But what exactly is workload automation, and how has it evolved? Organizations today are grappling with increasing complexities in IT infrastructure.

At Uptime.com, we’re committed to delivering a seamless and efficient experience for our users. We’ve been listening to your feedback and are excited to share some significant updates to our platform. These improvements are designed to enhance usability, streamline workflows, and provide you with the tools you need to monitor and maintain your site’s reliability effectively. Let’s dive into the details!

Following up on his discussion at IDPCON, Lou Bichard, Product Manager at Gitpod, revisits the topic of the developer inner loop. Lou Bichard|