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Your WireMock stubs are lying to you. They were accurate when someone wrote them six months ago, but the payment API added a metadata field in January, the inventory service switched from REST to gRPC in February, and nobody updated the stubs because the tests still pass. Meanwhile, production is breaking in ways your mocks will never catch. This is not a WireMock problem. It is a hand-written mock problem.

On March 6, 2026, SharePoint Online experienced a disruption that prevented some users from loading sites, accessing files, or authenticating successfully. The incident did not affect every user, but reports came in from multiple regions including North America and Europe. StatusGator detected the problem early through user outage reports and triggered an Early Warning Signal before Microsoft officially acknowledged the issue.

We’ve made several improvements to Single Sign-On (SSO) in StatusGator to make authentication easier to configure and easier to monitor. As a reminder the StatusGator dashboard includes SAML-based SSO on all plan tiers, even our free plan. This update introduces a simplified SSO setup flow along with a new Audit logs tab that provides visibility into authentication activity.

Cloud status pages were supposed to bring transparency to outages. Instead, they’ve become one of the most frustrating parts of incident response. Just to illustrate, here are only a few of the many posts on X: When a cloud service fails, status pages are often slow to update, incomplete, or missing information. Crowdsource platforms are noisy and misleading.

Short Summary: Sometimes URL paths repeat by mistake because of tracking problems or redirect loops.. In this guide, you’ll learn how to find and count those repeats using Trino SQL. By using simple SQL tools like CTEs, arrays, and window functions, you can break a long link into smaller pieces and clean up the data without using complex regex.

Here's something nobody talks about at the AI strategy meetings. Your organization just spent six figures on Cursor licenses, Claude seats, and Copilot subscriptions. Ninety percent of your engineers have access. By most internal measures, the rollout was a success. But somewhere on your team, one developer is running circles around everyone else.

Ben Avner is the Head of Ecosystem and Strategic Alliances at Apono, where he leads the company’s global partner strategy and technology alliances. He focuses on building and scaling strategic partnerships that drive product innovation, partner-influenced pipeline, and long-term growth. A former founder and engineer, Ben brings a strong technical foundation and a builder’s mindset, combined with experience across marketing, product partnerships, and go-to-market strategy.

Front-end deployment can embarrass you. Back-end deployment can wake you up at 2:13am. This is where web app deployment stops being about assets and starts being about state, uptime, traffic, and data that absolutely refuses to forget what happened five minutes ago. Back-end deployment is where complexity compounds. Quietly. Patiently. And then all at once. Let's talk about what's actually happening when you "just deploy the API.".