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nexthink

When IT instability becomes a patient safety risk in healthcare

Mar 27, 2026 By Chanté Frazer In Nexthink
Inside hospitals and health systems, the performance of clinical technology underpins nearly every care workflow and directly influences the timeliness and quality of patient care. Electronic health records sit at the center of admissions, discharge, imaging, lab coordination, and prescribing, so even minor technology friction can become a patient safety and operational risk. At scale, reliability becomes a prerequisite for consistent care.
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cloudzero

How Much Does It Cost To Keep Up With The AI Joneses?

Mar 27, 2026 By Bill Buckley In CloudZero
I’ve been an engineering leader for over a decade, and I’ve spent most of those years in private Slack groups with other engineering leaders, comparing strategies and kvetching about Kubernetes. Of the hundreds of threads I’ve taken part in, the one that got the most engagement the fastest was a recent one around AI adoption. “Where are you on this continuum?”, it read. “A. You don’t really care how people use AI; B. You push people to use AI; or C.
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canonical

The "scanner report has to be green" trap

Mar 27, 2026 By Lech Sandecki In Canonical
In the modern DevSecOps world, CISOs are constantly looking for signals in the noise, and the outputs of security scanners often carry a lot of weight. A security scan that returns a “zero CVE” report often unlocks promotion to production; a single red flag can block a release. This binary view of security has birthed two diametrically opposed philosophies. On one side, we have the long-term support (LTS) approach: stay on a battle-tested version and backport specific security fixes.
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ilert

The Interface Is the Intelligence: Why Action-First UX Beats Conversational AI in Incident Response

Mar 27, 2026 By iLert In iLert
It’s 2:47 a.m. A P1 alert fires. The on-call engineer opens ilert, sees the AI has already investigated, and is presented with three remediation options. What happens next is the moment we obsessed over. ‍ Most AI tooling at that moment hands the engineer a numbered list in a chat window and waits. The engineer reads, selects mentally, types a reply, and the agent resumes.
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oh dear

Enhancing our API for better agentic consumption

Mar 27, 2026 By Mattias Geniar In Oh Dear
AI coding agents like Claude Code and Codex are becoming a real part of developer workflows. They don't just write code, they call APIs, interpret responses, and take action based on what they find. That means the quality of your API responses directly affects how useful an agent can be. We've shipped a series of improvements to the Oh Dear API with this in mind. Every change helps humans too, but we specifically optimized for how agents consume and reason about data.
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harness

Load Testing: An Essential Guide for 2026 | Harness Blog

Mar 27, 2026 By Pritesh Kiri In Harness
This comprehensive guide covers the fundamentals of load testing, key differences from stress and performance testing, step-by-step execution methods, popular tools, and best practices to help teams build resilient systems with confidence. In today's always-on digital economy, a single slow page or unexpected crash during peak traffic can cost businesses thousands or even millions of dollars in lost revenue, damaged reputation, and frustrated customers.
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alertops

The Modern Incident Management Playbook: From Alert Fatigue to AI-Driven Orchestration

Mar 27, 2026 By AlertOps In AlertOps
A complete guide to modern incident management and how it’s transforming into a strategic business function. Kamalesh Srikanth , Product Strategy Leader at AlertOps If you’ve worked in IT, infrastructure, or operations for any length of time, you’ve lived through the chaos of a critical incident. Systems down, alerts blaring, Slack pinging, emails piling up and somewhere in that noise, your team is trying to figure out what actually broke and how to fix it fast.
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virtualmetric

Real-Time Visibility, Orchestrated Deployments, and More

Mar 27, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
The latest VirtualMetric DataStream release brings a significant step forward in platform observability and deployment flexibility. Version 1.9.0 gives security and infrastructure teams direct visibility into what’s happening across their pipelines in real time while expanding support for cloud-native environments and broadening connectivity options. Here’s what’s new.
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datadog

Analyzing round trip query latency

Mar 27, 2026 By Alex Weisberger In Datadog
It’s an all too common scenario: You get paged for some queries timing out, but when you investigate, the database performance looks unchanged. Something must have changed, though. If the database doesn’t look overloaded, where are these timeouts coming from? The answer often lies outside the database itself. Round trip query latency includes every hop between your application and the database, including connection pools, load balancers, and proxies.
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How to Translate YouTube Videos: Tools and Best Practices

How to Translate YouTube Videos: Tools and Best Practices

Mar 27, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Most creators don't think about translation until they open their analytics one day and see traffic coming in from Brazil, Germany, or Japan. And they just sit there staring at it like, wait, people actually want to watch this? In a different language? That's usually the moment it all clicks. The good news is that tools built to translate YouTube video content have gotten genuinely good. Not impressive for a computer good. Actually, it's good. Dubbed audio that sounds natural, lip sync that holds up, and a workflow that doesn't require a team or a big budget to pull off.
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