DevOps

Why Regular Upgrades Are Non-Negotiable in Modern DevOps

Introduction In DevOps, upgrades are rarely exciting. They don’t ship new features (most of the time). They don’t impress clients. They don’t always get leadership applause. And yet, over the years at To The New, one thing has become very clear to us: DevOps teams that do upgrades regularly move faster, stay safer,...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: SiteReliabilityEngineering
15-Jan-2026

DevOps

Paying to Ping? We Switched to Uptime Kuma and Saved Big

Introduction We used to rely on Pingdom for uptime monitoring. It worked well with simple checks, nice UI, and reliable and clean alerts. But one day, someone on our DevOps team casually said: "Hey, why are we paying for something that only pings URLs?" And that kicked off a big conversation. The Cost Wake-Up Pingdom wasn’t...

by Karandeep Singh
Tag: SiteReliabilityEngineering
07-Aug-2025