Gmail and Yahoo's New Sender Requirements — Your Four-Month Prep Checklist
Google and Yahoo will require SPF, DKIM, DMARC, one-click unsubscribe and sub-0.3% spam rates for bulk senders in February 2024. A prep checklist.
On-Call for Small Teams — You're Not Google, and That's Fine
On-call for a 2–5 person team is not Google's playbook shrunk down. Honest rotations, what deserves a 3 a.m. page, runbooks and humane escalation.
MOVEit Transfer: When the File Transfer Server Becomes the Breach
A zero-day in Progress MOVEit Transfer is being mass-exploited for data theft. What we know so far, and what it says about internet-facing appliances.
Synthetic Monitoring vs Real User Monitoring — What Each Catches, What Each Misses
Synthetic monitoring vs real user monitoring: what each catches, what each misses, what they cost, and why small teams should start synthetic-first.
Google Wants 90-Day Certificates: Get Ready Before It Becomes a Rule
Chrome's root program plans to propose 90-day maximum TLS certificate lifetimes. No date yet, but manual renewals are on borrowed time. Here's how to prepare.
Alert Fatigue — How Teams Learn to Ignore Their Own Alarms, and How to Undo It
Alert fatigue is a design failure, not a discipline problem. Why teams tune out their own alarms, and the confirmation, severity and escalation fixes.
MTTD, MTTA, MTTR, MTBF — Reliability Metrics Without the Jargon
MTTD, MTTA, MTTR and MTBF in plain terms: what each measures, a worked incident timeline, why averages mislead, and the cheapest one to improve.
Heroku's Free Tier Is Gone — A Migration Checklist That Doesn't Break Production
Heroku's free dynos and Postgres shut down November 28. Where hobby projects are moving (Render, Fly.io, Railway, a VPS) and how to cut over safely.
OpenSSL 3.0.7: The Critical Bug That Wasn't, and Why the Fire Drill Still Paid Off
OpenSSL pre-announced a critical fix, then shipped two high-severity bugs instead. How to find every OpenSSL 3 copy you run, and why the inventory matters.
Send Alerts Where Your Team Actually Lives — Slack, Discord, Telegram and Webhooks
Email alerts get buried. How to route monitoring alerts to Slack, Discord, Telegram and webhooks — channel design, dedup, and who actually gets paged.
The Rogers Outage: When One Carrier Takes Down Phones, Payments and 911
Friday's Rogers outage knocked out mobile, internet and Interac debit across Canada. What it says about single-carrier risk and where your alerts go.
HTTP/3 and QUIC, Explained — What Just Became a Standard Actually Changes
HTTP/3 is now a Proposed Standard. What QUIC's UDP transport, built-in TLS 1.3 and connection migration change, and what they mean for monitoring.
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