When the Dashboard DDoSed the Backend: Lessons from Cloudflare’s Sept 12 Outage and How Conductr Could Have Helped
On September 12, 2025, Cloudflare experienced a significant outage that disrupted its dashboard and several APIs for over an hour. It left users unable to make configuration changes or access key dashboard functionality. What Went Wrong? The root cause was deceptively simple: a React useEffect hook is misconfigured in the dashboard code. A problematic object […]
Auto Triage in Conductr for a Streamlined Error Handling Flow
Shifting left is a cornerstone of developer productivity engineering (DPE). By adopting shift-left testing practices and tools, teams can reduce costly delays, streamline their CI/CD pipelines, and enhance efficiency.
10 ways to fix your ‘clunky old software’
The Wall Street Journal recently called Technical Debt a $1.52 trillion problem. This massive problem is brought about by development teams prioritizing speedy delivery of code over quality. Technical debt any code added that requires more work to fix later. It has consequences in the long run that significantly affect agility. Developers take the easy […]
Developer Story: How Conductr AI Saves you time
I was updating part of the UI and making some api calls to adjust some elements. The api call was failing. I thought it was because my local environment didn’t have the correct settings. I tried adjusting the event handler to debug with no luck. In the meantime my slack was sending notifications that there […]
What is a Full Stack .NET Developer?
Developers love .NET Core / .NET 5 more than any other framework, as found by the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey. So why do 72.67% of developers love .NET Core so much? Let’s take a look and answer the following questions: What is .NET stack? Who are full stack developers? Why is .NET good […]
Integrating Azure DevOps CI/CD pipeline with Conductr AI
Integrating your application with Conductr AI involves the following 3 things: Sending your logs to Conductr, covered in other blog posts Letting Conductr know when you successfully complete a build and when you deploy the build to an environment, covered in this blog post Integrating with your ticketing system so that Conductr can pull your ticket […]
8 Mission Critical Software Outages and How to Avoid Them
As we know, software runs everything from small, fun apps and games to critical infrastructure and global enterprise software tools. Any kind of of downtime or disruption can lead to customer support problems, massive productivity issues, financial transaction issues, and in the worst cases, actual business injury. These functional disruptions that are caused by functional errors are […]
How AI Can Detect Software Bugs and Root Cause Analysis
Software bugs are inevitable. What matters is how quickly and accurately we can detect them—and more importantly, understand why they occurred. Traditional methods of bug detection and root cause analysis (RCA) are time-consuming and often reactive. With the advent of AI, we can now shift from fire-fighting to proactive debugging and diagnostics. Why Bug Detection […]
JavaScript Error Logging Basic Tips
Developers love .NET Core / .NET 5 more than any other framework, as found by the latest Stack Overflow Developer Survey. So why do 72.67% of developers love .NET Core so much? Let’s take a look and answer the following questions: What is .NET stack? Who are full stack developers? Why is .NET good for […]
Understanding What AI CoPilot Is and The Many Benefits
Explore the world of AI CoPilots and learn how these advanced artificial intelligence-powered assistants can revolutionize various aspects of our lives, from navigation systems to software development environments. In this comprehensive guide, we dive into the different types of AI CoPilots, their applications, and the numerous benefits they bring to the table, transforming industries and […]
