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DevOps
fromInfoQ
1 day ago

Replacing Database Sequences at Scale Without Breaking 100+ Services

Validating requirements can simplify complex problems, and embedding sequence generation reduces network calls, enhancing performance and reliability.
Software development
fromInfoQ
1 day ago

TigerFS Mounts PostgreSQL Databases as a Filesystem for Developers and AI Agents

TigerFS is an experimental filesystem that integrates PostgreSQL, allowing file operations through a standard filesystem interface.
fromComputerworld
1 day ago

A core infrastructure engineer pleads guilty to federal charges in insider attack

Rhyne's attack involved unauthorized remote desktop sessions, deletion of network administrator accounts, and changing of passwords, showcasing significant security vulnerabilities.
Information security
Data science
fromComputerworld
2 days ago

AI project 'failure' has little to do with AI

The reliability of genAI is compromised by various factors, necessitating independent verification of its outputs.
Portland
fromTheregister
2 days ago

Contractor quaffed his way to Y2K compliance

Y2K preparations included humorous incidents, with a contractor enjoying beers while ensuring systems were ready for the millennium change.
JavaScript
fromPythonSpeed
4 days ago

Timesliced reservoir sampling: a new(?) algorithm for profilers

Random sampling from an unknown-length event stream can effectively identify relevant information without storing all data.
#observability
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 month ago

Title Introducing Intelligent Workloads, Providing Business-Aligned Observability

Modern distributed systems require intelligent workload monitoring that connects technical metrics to business outcomes, replacing outdated green-light dashboards with AI-driven observability that aligns infrastructure health with revenue impact.
fromInfoQ
2 months ago
DevOps

Railway Highlights the Importance of Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts for Diagnosing System Failure

Combine logs, metrics, traces, and alerts to achieve faster, more accurate root-cause analysis and comprehensive observability of distributed systems.
fromNew Relic
2 months ago
DevOps

Unified Observability: Seeing the Whole Picture

A unified observability platform breaks data silos by correlating application, infrastructure, and network telemetry on a single dashboard to accelerate collaborative incident resolution.
DevOps
fromTechzine Global
2 days ago

Observability warehouses, the next structural evolution for telemetry

Observability is essential for real-time insights in cloud systems, helping to reduce downtime and improve performance.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 month ago

Title Introducing Intelligent Workloads, Providing Business-Aligned Observability

Modern distributed systems require intelligent workload monitoring that connects technical metrics to business outcomes, replacing outdated green-light dashboards with AI-driven observability that aligns infrastructure health with revenue impact.
fromInfoQ
2 months ago
DevOps

Railway Highlights the Importance of Logs, Metrics, Traces, and Alerts for Diagnosing System Failure

Information security
fromInfoWorld
2 days ago

Claude Code leak puts enterprise trust at risk as security, governance concerns mount

Leaks threaten Anthropic's market position and raise security concerns about its AI coding tools.
Software development
fromDevOps.com
2 days ago

Why Code Validation is the Next Frontier - DevOps.com

Shared staging environments are inadequate for modern development; isolated, on-demand setups are needed for effective validation.
Gadgets
fromTheregister
1 week ago

Engineer sabotaged PC then complained when it didn't work

Ewen faced challenges with a fiber-optic device that produced faulty data, leading to a long drive to troubleshoot the issue.
Women in technology
fromInfoQ
1 week ago

Security and Architecture: To Betray One Is To Destroy Both

Architecture and security have evolved from separate entities to a deeply connected partnership focused on resilience and protection against threats.
fromComputerWeekly.com
1 week ago

Why IT leaders need to consider AI's energy footprint | Computer Weekly

We are making sure that we have renewable energy powering all of our datacentre footprint. We have 100% renewable power today that is powering all of Azure, and we're very proud to build that base and essentially stimulate renewable energy around the world and in the UK.
Environment
Information security
fromComputerWeekly.com
4 days ago

Banning routers won't fix what's already broken | Computer Weekly

The FCC's ban on foreign-made routers addresses future procurement, not current security risks, as routers are already vulnerable and widely deployed.
Remote teams
fromNextgov.com
2 weeks ago

Consolidation in a complex and aging enterprise IT environment

Federal agencies must pursue strategic IT consolidation to manage aging legacy systems while modernizing, requiring strong leadership, disciplined planning, and change management beyond technological decisions.
Photography
fromInfoQ
2 weeks ago

Image Processing for Automated Tests

Image-based test automation using AI algorithms enables testing applications without access to internal states like DOM or component trees, providing visual representations to identify intended versus faulty states.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 week ago

How to Use APM Metrics to Optimize Application Performance

Infrastructure metrics are crucial indicators of application performance and user experience.
Software development
fromDevOps.com
1 week ago

The AIRE Gap: Why Organizations Are Buying AI SRE Tools They Aren't Ready to Use - DevOps.com

AI reliability engineering promises to enhance incident management, but many organizations are unprepared for its implementation and benefits.
Agile
fromInfoWorld
3 weeks ago

Save money by canceling more software projects, says survey

Enterprises should cancel underperforming projects more aggressively; those using scenario planning and ruthless viability assessment achieve better ROI outcomes.
Data science
fromMedium
4 weeks ago

Migrating to the Lakehouse Without the Big Bang: An Incremental Approach

Query federation enables safe, incremental lakehouse migration by allowing simultaneous queries across legacy warehouses and new lakehouse systems without risky big bang cutover approaches.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 week ago

Cloud Monitoring Tools: 5 Best Platforms to Evaluate in 2026

Effective cloud monitoring focuses on real-time telemetry correlation to understand failures, not just data collection.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
1 week ago

An architecture for engineering AI context

AI systems must intelligently manage context to ensure accuracy and reliability in real applications.
Typography
fromEvery
1 month ago

How to Design Software With Weight

Every's design process prioritizes tactile, tangible interfaces by studying physical objects like vintage radios and light switches to make digital elements feel real and touchable on screen.
Software development
fromInfoQ
2 weeks ago

AI Is Amplifying Software Engineering Performance, Says the 2025 DORA Report

AI success in software development depends on organizational systems and engineering culture, not tool sophistication, acting as a multiplier of existing team capabilities.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Flex appeal: UK datacenter cuts AI power draw 40% on command

A UK datacenter successfully reduced AI infrastructure power consumption by up to 40 percent during grid events by pausing or deprioritizing GPU workloads without disrupting critical operations.
Information security
fromComputerworld
3 weeks ago

Storage vendor offers a real guarantee - but check out those fine-print exceptions

Tech vendors frequently offer performance guarantees with substantial financial penalties, but hidden exceptions in EULAs often make claims difficult or impossible to collect.
DevOps
fromInfoWorld
2 weeks ago

Update your databases now to avoid data debt

Multiple major open source databases reach end-of-life in 2026, requiring teams to plan upgrades and migrations to avoid security risks and higher costs.
Software development
fromTechzine Global
3 weeks ago

The RAMpocalypse is a warning for stricter performance KPIs

Rising hardware costs force developers to optimize software efficiency rather than relying on throwing more resources at performance problems.
Miscellaneous
fromDevOps.com
1 month ago

I Learned Traffic Optimization Before I Learned Cloud Computing. It Turns Out the Lessons Were the Same. - DevOps.com

Cloud infrastructure requires understanding system behavior and costs to operate effectively at speed, similar to how skilled drivers anticipate conditions rather than simply driving fast.
Data science
fromInfoWorld
1 month ago

The revenge of SQL: How a 50-year-old language reinvents itself

SQL has experienced a major comeback driven by SQLite in browsers, improved language tools, and PostgreSQL's jsonb type, making it both traditional and exciting for modern development.
DevOps
fromDevOps.com
3 weeks ago

How eBPF and OpenTelemetry Have Simplified the Observability Function - DevOps.com

OpenTelemetry eBPF Instrumentation enables automatic observability without manual setup, allowing engineering teams to gain rapid visibility into services and infrastructure while avoiding instrumentation challenges.
fromMedium
3 weeks ago

Scala Profiling Under Fire

While the codebase is fresh and grows fast under the umbrella of the local environment, we tend to rely on debugging tools, which were created specifically for that purpose. The app is half-baked, and the code is split open. We observe it through the lens of our IDE and with the speed of our brain. Everything is possible; we may pause execution for minutes, and the whole system is a white box - an open book for us.
Software development
Business intelligence
fromDevOps.com
1 month ago

Why OpenTelemetry Is Paving the Way for the Rise of the Observability Warehouse - DevOps.com

OpenTelemetry adoption drives observability architecture toward unified warehouse models that centralize logs, metrics, and traces for scalable, cost-effective real-time operational intelligence.
Miscellaneous
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Achieve Optimal Efficiency for Your Developer Experience Teams

Monzo formed a Developer Velocity squad that built an Experimentation Platform enabling A/B testing of features across 11 million customers using a small 400-person engineering organization.
Software development
fromInfoQ
3 weeks ago

How Datadog Cut the Size of Its Agent Go Binaries by 77%

Datadog reduced its Agent binary from 1.22 GiB by auditing imports, using build tags, isolating optional code, and eliminating reflection pitfalls to remove unnecessary dependencies and compiler bloat.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
3 weeks ago

Guide to Alerts, Incident Management, and Observability

Alert fatigue from excessive telemetry requires a structured Alert Lifecycle Reference Architecture with three domains—Knowledge, Action, and Record—to align process architecture with technology architecture.
Artificial intelligence
fromDevOps.com
1 month ago

Survey: Adoption of AI Software Testing Slowed by Trust Issues

AI is prioritized for testing but limited trust and maintenance burdens keep most organizations from embedding AI across core test workflows.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
3 weeks ago

eBPF Network Metrics for Kernel-Level Observability | New Relic

New Relic's eBPF-based agent unifies network performance, APM telemetry, infrastructure metrics, and logging into a single lightweight solution, eliminating network blind spots and reducing mean time to innocence during incidents.
DevOps
fromInfoQ
3 weeks ago

Change as Metrics: Measuring System Reliability Through Change Delivery Signals

System changes cause 60-80% of production incidents, making change-related metrics essential first-class reliability signals aligned with DORA framework principles.
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Server crashes traced to one very literal knee-jerk reaction

It was the time of Novell networks, RG58 cables, and bulky tower PCs. It was also a time before the telemarketer's IT department employed specialists. Carter and his two colleagues - boss Mike and part-time student Stefan - therefore handled tasks ranging from programming to support, and everything in between.
Software development
DevOps
fromDevOps.com
1 month ago

Unlocking Observability by Design With Inferred Schemas - DevOps.com

Schema drift in observability systems causes inconsistencies, field proliferation, and operational friction as teams independently instrument services without coordinated data structure definitions.
#distributed-systems
fromInfoQ
1 month ago
Software development

How a Small Enablement Team Supported Adopting a Single Environment for Distributed Testing

fromInfoQ
1 month ago
Software development

How a Small Enablement Team Supported Adopting a Single Environment for Distributed Testing

fromNedbatchelder
2 months ago

Testing: exceptions and caches

Kacper Borucki blogged about parameterizing exception testing, and linked to pytest docs and a StackOverflow answer with similar approaches. The common way to test exceptions is to use pytest.raises as a context manager, and have separate tests for the cases that succeed and those that fail. Instead, this approach lets you unify them. I tweaked it to this, which I think reads nicely: One parameterized test that covers both good and bad outcomes. Nice.
fromDbmaestro
4 years ago

5 Pillars of Database Compliance Automation |

There is a growing emphasis on database compliance today due to the stricter enforcement of compliance rules and regulations to safeguard user privacy. For example, GDPR fines can reach £17.5 million or 4% of annual global turnover (the higher of the two applies). Besides the direct monetary implications, companies also need to prioritize compliance to protect their brand reputation and achieve growth.
EU data protection
fromMedium
1 month ago

Algorithms Are Just Real Life, Formalized

Which Algorithm Is This? If you step back, this maps almost perfectly to the Top K Frequent Elements problem.We usually solve it for integers in a list. Here, the "elements" are audience profiles age and body-type combinations. First, define what an audience profile looks like: case class Profile(age: Int, height: Int, weight: Int) What we want is a function like this:
Scala
Tech industry
fromTheregister
1 month ago

Oracle promises new approach to MySQL

Oracle commits to new engineering leadership, developer-focused features, greater transparency, and expanded community engagement to guide MySQL through 2026 and beyond.
Gadgets
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Engineer caused data loss by cleaning PCs with welding tools

A structural engineer destroyed five AutoCAD PCs by using oil-laden compressed air and acetone, causing hardware failure and loss of engineering files.
Artificial intelligence
fromInfoQ
1 month ago

Leapwork Research Shows Why AI in Testing Still Depends on Reliability, Not Just Innovation

AI-driven testing is increasingly prioritized, but concerns about accuracy, stability, and manual maintenance limit broad adoption across critical test workflows.
Information security
fromBusiness Matters
1 month ago

Detecting Configuration Drift: Continuous Controls vs. Point-in-Time Snapshots

Continuous controls monitoring (CCM) is required to detect and remediate configuration drift in rapidly changing cloud environments before risks persist unnoticed.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 month ago

Workflow Automation: Turn Observability Into Action

Workflow Automation reduces mean time to recovery from hours to minutes by automatically detecting deployment anomalies and executing rollbacks with minimal human intervention.
fromTheregister
2 months ago

Datacenter lifecycle study aims to increase sustainability

Constructing datacenters accounts for 39 percent of their total carbon dioxide emissions, almost as much as operating them, according to an environmental analysis covering the entire lifecycle of a facility. The finding comes from a white paper published by European datacenter operator Data4, which conducted a lifecycle assessment (LCA) of one of its own facilities with the assistance of design and engineering consultants APL Data Center.
Environment
Software development
fromDevOps.com
1 month ago

The AI Productivity Paradox: How Developer Throughput Can Stall - DevOps.com

AI coding assistants boost individual developer productivity but create security vulnerabilities that reduce overall deployment throughput, forming a new type of technical debt.
DevOps
fromNew Relic
1 month ago

Database 360 Brings Full-Stack DB RCA

Database 360 unifies database query telemetry and full-stack context to pinpoint performance issues faster without switching between multiple tools and dashboards.
Tech industry
fromTheregister
2 months ago

IT team fixed faults faster than outsourcer could find them

An 8-CPU Sun server with removable CPU cards suffered frequent CPU-card failures and slow contracted support, forcing local IT to swap cards to restore service.
fromNew Relic
2 months ago

The Power and Cost of Data Cardinality

The more attributes you add to your metrics, the more complex and valuable questions you can answer. Every additional attribute provides a new dimension for analysis and troubleshooting. For instance, adding an infrastructure attribute, such as region can help you determine if a performance issue is isolated to a specific geographic area or is widespread. Similarly, adding business context, like a store location attribute for an e-commerce platform, allows you to understand if an issue is specific to a particular set of stores
Data science
fromSecurityWeek
1 month ago

How to Eliminate the Technical Debt of Insecure AI-Assisted Software Development

This extends to the software development community, which is seeing a near-ubiquitous presence of AI-coding assistants as teams face pressures to generate more output in less time. While the huge spike in efficiencies greatly helps them, these teams too often fail to incorporate adequate safety controls and practices into AI deployments. The resulting risks leave their organizations exposed, and developers will struggle to backtrack in tracing and identifying where - and how - a security gap occurred.
Artificial intelligence
fromNew Relic
2 months ago

Traditional Network Monitoring is Failing

For any IT department, these four words are the beginning of a familiar, often frustrating, journey. In our modern world, where business success is built on distributed applications and hybrid cloud architectures, the network is the circulatory system. When it fails, everything grinds to a halt. Yet, despite its critical importance, it often remains a black box-a source of blame that is difficult to prove or disprove.
Information security
Information security
fromSecuritymagazine
1 month ago

Product Spotlight on Analytics

Taelor Sutherland is Associate Editor at Security magazine covering enterprise security, coordinating digital content, and holding a BA in English Literature from Agnes Scott College.
Artificial intelligence
fromNetwork World
2 months ago

Engineers rush to master new skills for AI data centers

AI infrastructure growth is driving massive data center expansion and urgent need for skilled facilities staff amid unprecedented capex by major tech companies.
Information security
fromDevOps.com
1 month ago

Survey Surfaces More Focus on Software Security Testing and API Security - DevOps.com

Many enterprises plan to increase spending on software security testing, API security, and application security as AI-driven code growth strains DevSecOps capacity.
fromComputerworld
1 month ago

Testing can't keep up with rapidly advancing AI systems: AI Safety Report

AI systems continued to advance rapidly over the past year, but the methods used to test and manage their risks did not keep pace, according to the International AI Safety Report 2026. The report, produced with inputs from more than 100 experts across over 30 countries, said that pre-deployment testing was increasingly failing to reflect how AI systems behaved once deployed in real-world environments, creating challenges for organisations that had expanded their use of AI across software development, cybersecurity, research, and business operations.
Artificial intelligence
fromArmin Ronacher's Thoughts and Writings
1 month ago

The Final Bottleneck

At that point, backpressure and load shedding are the only things that retain a system that can still operate. If you have ever been in a Starbucks overwhelmed by mobile orders, you know the feeling. The in-store experience breaks down. You no longer know how many orders are ahead of you. There is no clear line, no reliable wait estimate, and often no real cancellation path unless you escalate and make noise.
Software development
Software development
fromMedium
2 months ago

Why Your System Shows Old Data: A Practical Guide to Cache Invalidation

Caching introduces multiple truths; without correct cache invalidation users will receive stale data and silently lose trust.
Software development
fromDbmaestro
4 years ago

If You Don't Have Database Delivery Automation, Brace Yourself for These 10 Problems |

Manual database processes break DevOps pipelines; only 12% deploy database changes daily, causing configuration drift, frequent errors, slower time-to-market, and reduced productivity.
Software development
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

Thinking Like a Detective: Solving Cloud Infrastructure Mysteries

Intermittent, user-visible cloud errors can occur despite green health checks and normal logs; solving them requires methodical tracing across network, client, and infrastructure.
Software development
fromMedium
1 month ago

The Complete Database Scaling Playbook: From 1 to 10,000 Queries Per Second

Database scaling to 10,000 QPS requires staged architectural strategies timed to traffic thresholds to avoid outages or unnecessary cost.
fromDbmaestro
4 years ago

What is Database Delivery Automation and Why Do You Need It?

Manual database deployment means longer release times. Database specialists have to spend several working days prior to release writing and testing scripts which in itself leads to prolonged deployment cycles and less time for testing. As a result, applications are not released on time and customers are not receiving the latest updates and bug fixes. Manual work inevitably results in errors, which cause problems and bottlenecks.
Software development
fromNew Relic
1 month ago

5 Best Application Performance Monitoring Tools to Consider in 2026

Support for distributed systems. Check how well the tool handles microservices, serverless, and Kubernetes. Can you follow a request across services, queues, and third-party APIs? Does it understand pods, nodes, clusters, and autoscaling events, or does it treat everything like a static host? Correlation across metrics, logs, and traces. In an incident, you shouldn't be copying IDs between tools. Look for the ability to pivot directly from a slow trace to relevant logs,
DevOps
fromPythonSpeed
2 months ago

Unit testing your code's performance, part 1: Big-O scaling

If you're trying to make sure your software is fast, or at least doesn't get slower, automated tests for performance would also be useful. But where should you start? My suggestion: start by testing big-O scaling. It's a critical aspect of your software's speed, and it doesn't require a complex benchmarking setup. In this article I'll cover: A reminder of what big-O scaling means for algorithms. Why this is such a critical performance property.
Software development
Software development
fromMedium
2 months ago

A Shared Context Optimization to Eliminate 75% Service Calls

Refactoring reduced redundant HTTP calls between the Recommendation API and the Unified Customer Database, removing the chatty-services pattern and improving performance and code maintainability.
Software development
fromInfoQ
2 months ago

Engineering Speed at Scale - Architectural Lessons from Sub-100-ms APIs

Treat latency as a first-class product concern with enforceable latency budgets, fast-path architecture, and broad ownership through measurement and accountability.
fromMedium
1 month ago

Test smart: how to solve dilemmas as QA?

To find the typical example, just observe an average stand-up meeting. The ones who talk more get all the attention. In her article, software engineer Priyanka Jain tells the story of two colleagues assigned the same task. One posted updates, asked questions, and collaborated loudly. The other stayed silent and shipped clean code. Both delivered. Yet only one was praised as a "great team player."
Software development
Software development
fromInfoWorld
2 months ago

Is code a cow path?

AI coding agents will progressively assume writing, reviewing, and testing roles, potentially eliminating the need for human review and traditional code artifacts.
Software development
fromDevOps.com
2 months ago

Survey Surfaces Disconnect Between DevOps Metrics and Business KPIs - DevOps.com

DevOps teams monitor applications extensively but rarely translate performance improvements into business metrics or formal financial impact measurements.
Software development
fromIT Pro
2 months ago

Paessler PRTG Network Monitor 25.4 review: The network monitoring host with the most

PRTG Network Monitor uses sensor-based licensing with all sensors included, providing extensive built-in monitoring and modest hardware requirements for large-scale deployments.
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