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AI-Powered Translation Tools: A Hidden Asset for Scaling DevOps Globally

DevOps or development (Dev) and IT operations (Ops) teams are no longer confined to single geographic locations or language groups. With over 80% of organizations now practicing DevOps (a figure projected to reach 94% in the near future), the challenge of scaling operations globally has never been more critical. Yet, one persistent bottleneck continues to slow down even the most sophisticated DevOps workflows: language barriers.

Technology-Driven Solutions for Cleaner Indoor Air

Cleaner indoor air is becoming increasingly important in our homes and workplaces. Factors such as air pollution, dust, and allergens can significantly impact the quality of the air we breathe. Thankfully, advancements in technology are making it easier than ever to improve indoor air quality, offering both health benefits and enhanced comfort for occupants. This article explores various technology-driven solutions that contribute to cleaner indoor environments, detailing their features and effectiveness.

Debugging Without a Net: The Pain of Reproducing Production Issues

Every engineer has been there — a late-night page, a broken feature in production, and no clear way to reproduce it. The logs are vague. The metrics look normal. Your local environment works fine. Yet something somewhere is failing for real users. So begins the detective work — debugging a live system with almost no tools, no perfect test data, and no clone of production.

AWS Outage: How do you prepare for the failure of your own safety net?

When AWS’s massive outage struck, it didn’t just take down cloud services, apps, and enterprise platforms. It also knocked out many of the monitoring systems organizations depend on for real-time answers. Observability companies, including Datadog, New Relic, Checkly, Dynatrace, SpeedCurve, and Splunk Observability, lost visibility or functionality precisely when organizations needed them most.

PagerDuty Joins AWS QuickSuite: Connect Your Incident Management with 1,000+ Applications

Today, we’re announcing that PagerDuty is now available in AWS QuickSuite through the Model Context Protocol (MCP). This means PagerDuty’s incident management capabilities can now connect with the 1,000+ applications and data sources that QuickSuite integrates with, from AWS services to enterprise SaaS platforms, all accessible through natural language.

How to test the reliability of a Point of Sale (POS) system

Point of Sale (POS) systems are the backbone of any retail store. A single outage can cost retail companies thousands of dollars each minute in lost sales, and even more if the outage happens during peak hours. If the outage goes on too long, it can cause even more costly damage as customers abandon carts and turn to competitors. In an industry where customer loyalty is worth its weight in gold, that brand damage can end up even more costly than the initial lost sales.

Unreal Engine crash reporting now available on gaming consoles with trace-connected logs

With the first major release of the Sentry Unreal SDK (now on v1.2.0, and you can also explore in our interactive sandbox), we’ve made some important improvements to support cross-platform Unreal developers when it comes to platform coverage, debugging with user feedback, and performance monitoring improvements. Here’s what’s new.

Exploring why PostgreSQL made generated columns virtual

Generated columns have existed in PostgreSQL since version 12. The idea was to allow people to make calculations based on other columns in the table and store them. It makes your life easier by ensuring data accuracy and preventing unauthorized manual modifications. But why, after 6 versions, is PostgreSQL making generated columns virtual and also making this new way the default? This is an example of the types of questions we had when exploring and playing around with this new feature.