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Patterns for safe and efficient cache purging in CI/CD pipelines

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."—Phil Karlton In the age of increasingly frequent deploys, edge caching, and Jamstack adoption, caching plays a key role across the software delivery life cycle. In build and CI pipelines, caching compiled assets or dependencies helps reduce compute costs, speed up job runtimes, and lower the environmental impact (regarding energy usage) of repeated builds.

GitKraken Desktop 11.3: This is either a brilliant or terrible idea

AI-powered commits? Rewriting your Git history? We know, it sounds unhinged. But in GitKraken Desktop 11.3, Commit Composer makes it possible to take messy WIP or past commits and turn them into a clean, logical story. In this video, we’ll show you how Commit Composer works, when to use it, and what it means for your workflow. What Commit Composer can do: Plus, we cover other new features in 11.3: Git Blog: gitkraken.com/blog.

AI-Driven Risk Analysis in Seconds #AI #itsm

IT changes can be challenging. Hidden risks, costly mistakes. In Alloy Navigator, you’ve got an AI-driven risk analyst that tears through past tickets and mines your knowledge base, delivering risk analysis and tailored recommendations for every change — in seconds. Now everyone on your team has a personal Mentat, a strategic sidekick that turns data into sharp insight. In this short video, we used gpt-4.1-mini for completions and text-embedding-3-large for generating embeddings from OpenAI.

Breaking through the Senior Engineer ceiling

You’ve made it to Senior engineer. Now what? You’re now staring at the next level, Staff typically, sometimes Principal, or whatever your company calls it. The path feels murky. Your manager gives you feedback like “show more technical leadership” or “think bigger picture”, but what does that actually mean day-to-day? I’ve been there. I’ve also been on the other side, helping engineers grow through whatever explicit (or implicit) levels a company has.

Behind the Dashboard - Catchpoint Traceroute

Behind the Dashboard is an ongoing series where we look under the hood of a specific Catchpoint feature. Each episode breaks down the technology itself, what’s challenging about using it for monitoring, and how we removed friction and toil to make it a valuable part of the Catchpoint platform. In this episode Leon, Brandon, and Sergey take a look at “traceroute” tests – a feature that may seem humble and unassuming, but has unexpected power and utility when it comes to identifying performance issues with your site, service, or application.

Ten Minute Troubleshooting: Meet (and Monitor) Users Where They Are

What do you do if your monitoring, APM, and synthetic tools tell you an application is up, but the users say it’s not? A good first question is to ask where your monitoring tools are located relative to both the users and the application itself. In this episode Mursi helps Leon identify his “red-light, green light” issue and adjust his monitoring to do a better job showing the REAL user’s experience.