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CircleCI

Stacked PRs: what they are and how to run CI on a stack

Zapier

From a garage and a pickup truck to $3.8 million

A missed call in home services is a missed job. In a Massachusetts October, that can be a five-figure heating replacement going to the next company on Google. Ross Hunt started 3R Plumbing & Mechanica…

YugabyteDB

YSQL Connection Manager is Now GA

We are excited to announce the General Availability (GA) of YSQL Connection Manager in YugabyteDB 2026.1.1, YugabyteDB Anywhere, and YugabyteDB Aeon. Built directly into every YugabyteDB node, YSQL Co…

Sentry

Sentry's Flutter SDK 10.0: Streaming Traces and More Accurate Crash-Free Rates

Flutter SDK 10.0: streaming traces by default, accurate crash-free rates, dedicated app startup traces, and expanded Dio network error capture.

InfluxData

Root Cause Analysis Workflows Using InfluxDB

It’s 2:00 AM, and your monitoring system fires a critical alert. Latency is spiking, and overseas users are registering internal server error complaints. How quickly can you find the root problem? You…

eBay

Inside Minerva: building scalable observability for eBay’s monetization platform

How eBay built a scalable observability platform that combines asynchronous data processing, ClickHouse analytics, and configurable monitoring to detect and investigate monetization anomalies without…

Zapier

The best AI chatbots in 2026

You've probably already subscribed to ChatGPT. Maybe your company rolled out Copilot. Your developer friends won't shut up about Claude. All the noise is confusing: which one should you actually use f…

Zapier

Human-in-the-loop in AI workflows: HITL meaning, benefits, and practical patterns

AI systems can route messages, update records, make decisions, and trigger entire workflows across multiple apps without you touching anything. But as AI shifts more and more from being an assistive t…

Zapier

Claude vs. ChatGPT: Which is best? [2026]

When OpenAI launched ChatGPT in late 2022, tech writers (myself included) became obsessed with testing its limits. Could it write poetry? Debug code? Explain quantum physics to a five-year-old? Once A…

Zapier

Dropbox Sign vs. Docusign: Which should you use? [2026]

Sometimes it feels like every time I blink, technology transports me into the future at blistering speeds, and it's all I can do to keep up. Then someone asks me to sign something on paper and I remem…

Zapier

What are ChatGPT dots?

ChatGPT dots don't come as a surprise. Always-on agents have been the next frontier AI since OpenClaw caused a run on Mac minis back in January 2026. OpenAI even hired OpenClaw's developer, Peter Stei…

Zapier

How to use PowerPoint: A beginner's guide

My toxic trait is forcing my friends and family into having PowerPoint parties—which are really just an excuse for me to do a full-blown slideshow on why Samwise Gamgee is the best character in the Lo…

ScyllaDB

Inside the Database Internals Talks at P99 CONF 2026

Since database performance is so near and dear to ScyllaDB, we reached out to our friends across the community to ensure that a nice range of distributed data systems, approaches, and challenges would…

Zapier

The 16 best AI video generators in 2026

Consuming video is easy. Producing good video is not. Putting together a script, getting all the footage, and editing everything to perfection—or as close as possible—can eat up enormous chunks of you…

Zapier

The 12 best free writing software in 2026

At any given moment, I have a different writing app open for every task I'm actively procrastinating on: my Notes app for collaborating with my partner on a never-ending list of to-dos, Notion for tri…

Sentry

Sentry JavaScript SDK v11 adds tracing for all JS platforms

Sentry's v11 JavaScript SDKs trace dependencies with a code transformer instead of OpenTelemetry instrumentation, adding Cloudflare Workers, Bun, and Deno

Zapier

AI adoption: A practical guide from Zapier

I have two voices in my head when it comes to new tech. One is the wide-eyed optimist who wants to try every tool and click every AI button. The other wants to delete every app on my phone, move to a…

Zapier

Claude 5.5: What you need to know about Anthropic's AI models and chatbot

I've been using Claude long enough to remember when the main selling point was that it was a nicer chatbot to talk to than the alternatives. (That's still true, for what it's worth.) But Claude no lon…

Zapier

The best AI newsletters in 2026

As a writer covering technology and AI, I spend plenty of time separating useful information from the hype. A good AI newsletter can help cut through that noise. But the best newsletter depends on wha…

Sentry

Reducing Android scope-sync overhead in Sentry Flutter

How Sentry Flutter uses a worker isolate for Android SDK operations and reduces duplicate normalization and JSON encoding overhead.