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HashiCorp Blog

Introducing HCP Terraform Metrics: operational visibility at scale

As Terraform usage scales across teams and projects, operators need a consistent way to understand the health and performance of their Terraform operations without stitching together multiple APIs or logs. Additionally, they want to view these insights easily in their existing monitoring solutions. We are excited to introduce HCP Terraform metrics for HCP Terraform Standard and Premium customers so they can have the visibility to optimize their Terraform operations with their existing Prometheus

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DZone

The Startup Time Trick Hiding Inside Your Docker Build

Every Java developer who runs services on Kubernetes has watched this scene play out. Traffic spikes, the autoscaler adds a pod, and then everyone waits. The container is running in two seconds. The application is not ready for another twelve seconds. During those ten seconds, your existing pods absorb the extra load, latency climbs, and if things are bad enough, the autoscaler panics and adds even more pods that are also not ready. I spent years treating Spring Boot startup time as a fact of li

ExternalTechnology Trends
The Verge Tech

OpenAI’s next big AI model has ‘entered the AGI era’

OpenAI's next big model is here: GPT-6 Astra. The company calls it a "generational leap in capability" for areas like cybersecurity, professional work, software engineering, science, and computer use. As OpenAI announced earlier this week, it's also the first model designated as meeting OpenAI's "critical cybersecurity capability threshold" - but the company promises that won't lead to a repeat of its models hacking a rival company's internal systems. "If we fast-forward a couple of years, and w

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ExternalBackend Development
.NET Blog

Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT

MSTest source generation lets test projects use the same Native AOT and trimming deployment model as the applications they validate, while reducing reflection on the test execution path. The post Test what you ship: MSTest and Native AOT appeared first on .NET Blog.

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