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Why Multi-Agent AI Workflows Need a Control Plane

AI is transforming how infrastructure and platform teams design, deploy, and operate systems. As organizations move from experimentation to production, a clear pattern is emerging. AI can decide what should change, but it cannot safely control how those changes are executed. This creates a gap in modern architectures. That gap is filled by a control plane. That control plane already exists in Puppet Enterprise Advanced.

Why Day 2 Operations Are Harder Than Deployment (And What To Do About It)

Getting your application deployed feels like finishing a race. You push the code, the containers spin up, the health checks go green, and for a brief moment everything feels solved. Then Day 2 arrives. Day 2 is not a specific date. It is the entire operational life of your application after that first successful deployment. It is the stretch of time that can last years, and it is where most teams quietly discover that deployment was the easy part.

How one PM scaled customer discovery with AI

Customer interviews are one of the most powerful ways to build better products — but they’re also time-consuming. In this video, Avinoam “Avi” Zelenko, Principal Product Manager at Atlassian, shares how he transformed the way he runs customer interviews using AI automation and Rovo agents. What used to take hours of coordination, note-taking, and manual summaries now happens automatically. By stitching together the Teamwork Collection and Slack, Avi built a workflow that captures conversations, summarizes insights, and shares them across teams in real time.

The sovereignty debate explained with Nine23

Who really owns your data? Data sovereignty has become one of the defining issues shaping digital infrastructure, cloud strategy and AI adoption. But what does it actually mean, and why has it become a board-level discussion for so many organisations? In Episode 4 of Perspectives from the Edge, Pulsant's Wendy Shearer is joined by Steve Jewell, CEO of Nine23, to explore data sovereignty and its relationship to security, resilience and digital transformation.

Reduce Alert Fatigue with Composite Alerting in Hosted Graphite | Tutorial

Tired of noisy alerts waking you up for issues that are not actually impacting your services? In this tutorial, we walk through MetricFire's Composite Alerting capabilities and show how to combine multiple metric conditions into a single high-confidence alert using AND / OR logic. Learn how to: Reduce alert fatigue and false positives Create service level alerts in Graphite Combine CPU, latency, and database metrics into meaningful alerts Use conditional logic to improve signal quality Build smarter observability workflows with Hosted Graphite.

EU Data Act Compliance for Cloud and DevOps Teams: What Changes You Need to Make Before the Deadline

If you have been staying updated on trends, you already know that the EU data act is actually very quickly turning into one of the most important regulations for companies that manage business data and customers in Europe. Understandably, many companies have already been adjusting to privacy laws over the past few years. However, this new regulation has brought on different challenges.

Measuring engineering organizations in the age of AI

Engineering leadership is in the middle of a real transition, and most of the leaders I talk to know it. AI has reshaped how software gets built quickly enough that the operating models many of us spent a decade refining no longer fit cleanly, and there is a great deal of serious work happening across the industry to figure out how these models should evolve. The teams I find most impressive right now are the ones treating their operating model as an open question rather than a settled one.

Template: Streamlining open source design contributions

As designers working at Canonical, we’re always thinking about open source. We believe that encouraging more designers to contribute to open source benefits everyone, from the project maintainers to the end users themselves. In the 2025 edition of FOSSBackstage conference, we presented our research findings on why designers don’t get involved in open source projects and found a particular breakdown between designers and project maintainers.

Beyond Mythos: responding to a new threat landscape

Canonical’s security philosophy has always been built on the premise that vulnerabilities exist and will be discovered. Our response relies on defense-in-depth architecture, rapid patch deployment, and strict adherence to Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD). AI changes vulnerability discovery volume and speed. We have a robust vulnerability management process that is backed by rigorous compliance certifications.