Author: drweb

Grafana Labs this week made generally available an artificial intelligence (AI) agent, dubbed Grafana Assistant, for its namesake dashboard in addition to previewing Grafana Assistant Investigations, an AI incident management tool that analyzes the observability stack, generates findings and hypotheses, and surfaces actionable recommendations for mitigation and remediation. Announced at its ObservabilityCON 2025 conference, Grafana […]

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When you use a casino website, the frontend (what you click, what you see) is only half the story. Behind the scenes, there’s a backend that tracks user balances, accepts bets, resolves game outcomes, and handles requests like placing a bet or withdrawing funds. Your job is to build the plumbing so that everything stays consistent, reliable, and fair. A bug there can mean money disappears or users cheat.You’ll see two main frameworks people pick in Python for web backends: Flask and Django. Each has its trade-offs, flexibility versus built-in features. Later on, I’ll sketch how minimal architecture might look.Flask…

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In a survey of over a thousand CIOs, CTOs, CISOs and other tech execs conducted by Protiviti, organizations spend an average of 30% of their total IT budgets on managing technical debt. Not only is it costly, but nearly 70% felt that technical debt highly impacted their ability to innovate. Technical debt happens to organizations […]

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Unlimited access to Docker Hardened Images: Because security should be affordable, always Every organization we speak with shares the same goal: to deliver software that is secure and free of CVEs. Near-zero CVEs is the ideal state. But achieving that ideal is harder than it sounds, because paradoxes exist at every step. Developers patch quickly, yet new CVEs appear faster than fixes can ship. Organizations standardize on…

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Engineering teams spend nearly 15 hours a week on repetitive DevOps toils that drain productivity. This guide explains how to identify high-impact automation opportunities, apply the 15-minute rule, and build sustainable script-based solutions that eliminate toil and free teams for innovation.

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About the RoleWe’re looking for a DevOps Engineer with a strong Laravel background to join our growing tech team. This role isn’t your typical DevOps job — it blends infrastructure management, application awareness, and investigative problem-solving.You’ll be the bridge between the application and the infrastructure layers — ensuring our Laravel projects are healthy, fast, and secure.**Location:** Hybrid (Cyprus preferred, or within ±2h time zone)What You’ll Do• Manage our infrastructure stack, including:•• Cloudflare (DNS, WAF, caching, Argo, Polish, etc.)•• Laravel Forge for server orchestration and deployments•• DigitalOcean hosting for production and staging environments•• Laravel Cloud for lightweight or isolated projects• Monitor…

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We’ve all been there: you’re 90% of the way through downloading a massive, multi-gigabyte GGUF model file for llama.cpp when your internet connection hiccups. The download fails, and the progress bar resets to zero. It’s a frustrating experience that wastes time, bandwidth, and momentum. Well, the llama.cpp community has just shipped a fantastic quality-of-life improvement that puts an end to that frustration: resumable downloads! This is a significant step forward for making large models more accessible and reliable to work with. Let’s take a quick look at what this new feature does and then explore how to achieve a truly…

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We’re looking for a full stack developer with a strong eye for design and a passion for clean, maintainable frontend code. You’ll help us improve and evolve our web and mobile applications — focusing on modernising the frontend, enhancing usability, and refining the overall UI experience. You’ll also play a key role in building and maintaining core features and backend systems, contributing to scalable, high-performance products that power both our internal and client projects. About Us We’re a hybrid between a digital agency and a product studio — building high-scale products for clients as well as our own in-house SaaS…

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