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Insights on uptime, status pages, and alerting, written for builders. Follow along for product updates, how-tos, and real examples that help you keep users happy.
How to Manage Planned Downtime
Learn effective strategies for managing planned downtime, including scheduling, communication, alert suppression, validation, and automation to ensure system stability and maintain user trust during maintenance windows.
What is Domain Hijacking
Domain hijacking is a serious security threat where attackers gain unauthorized control of a domain, leading to traffic redirection, data theft, and brand damage. Prevention and quick response are crucial.
Best Practices for On Call Teams
Effective on-call teams require intentional planning, clear responsibilities, sustainable rotation schedules, and a supportive culture to ensure reliability, prevent burnout, and improve incident response.
Continuous Deployment: Automating Software Releases
Continuous deployment automates software releases by integrating automated testing, monitoring, and infrastructure, enabling teams to deliver small, frequent updates quickly, reliably, and with minimal manual intervention.
What is Unsupervised Learning in Machine Learning?
Unsupervised learning involves algorithms that discover patterns, structures, and relationships in unlabeled data, enabling tasks like clustering, dimensionality reduction, and anomaly detection without predefined categories.
What Does Managed Cloud Infrastructure Actually Cover?
Managed cloud infrastructure offloads operational tasks like patching, monitoring, and backups for specific layers, while you retain ownership of configuration, security, data, and application management to ensure reliable, compliant workloads.
Testing Standards: Framework and Best Practices for Quality Assurance
Testing standards establish consistent frameworks and best practices across industries, ensuring reliability, validity, and fairness in quality assurance processes for educational, psychological, software, and automated systems.
Application Modernization: When and Why to Update Software
Application modernization transforms legacy software into cloud-native, scalable, and maintainable systems, enabling faster deployment, improved security, and better alignment with current business and technological requirements.
Backend Deployment with Railway: What Developers Should Know
Using Railway as a backend simplifies deployment, infrastructure management, and scaling for developers. It offers seamless integration, environment management, and reliable cloud hosting for modern backend applications.
Observability: Beyond Traditional Monitoring
Observability enables understanding complex, distributed systems through logs, metrics, and traces, allowing teams to diagnose issues quickly, improve reliability, and build resilient, scalable software architectures.
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