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dotConnect for Dynamics 365 | Secure C# ADO.NET connection with ORM support

Feb 13, 2026 By Devart In Devart
Integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365 into your C# .NET applications with dotConnect for Dynamics 365—a powerful, high-performance data provider built for secure enterprise connectivity. From workflow automation to CRM data synchronization, dotConnect enables reliable access with seamless Visual Studio integration and advanced ORM support for modern development workflows. Chapters: Try it free for 30 days and see why thousands of developers trust dotConnect for Dynamics 365 in mission-critical environments.
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#053 - The Road to Distributed AI and Kubernetes Infrastructure with Matt Butcher (Fermyon) & Ari...

Feb 13, 2026 By Komodor In Komodor
They share their professional origins, highlighting how Kubernetes transitioned from a complex tool for experts to a foundational technology for global enterprises.. Part of the conversation focuses on the history of Helm, explaining its growth from a simple hackathon project into a standard package manager. Another part takes on the future of distributed computing, specifically how Akamai is integrating infrastructure as a service to support modern workloads.
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How AI Coding Is Breaking Synthetic Data Generation

Feb 12, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Traditional synthetic data generation approaches, still called “Test Data Management” (TDM) by legacy vendor, were designed for a world where applications were monolithic, databases were the center of gravity and change happened slowly. The world looks a lot different now. Modern systems are distributed, often times event-driven, and increasingly powered by streaming data and AI agents. In this environment, batch-oriented synthetic data generation fails to capture how systems actually behave.
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DLP, Traffic Replay, and the Missing Link to Software Quality

Feb 12, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
In Part 1 and Part 2 we explored why testing modern software is so difficult. Production data is the most valuable input for testing, but it’s locked away because it contains PII and sensitive context. Traditional Synthetic Data Generation (SDG) was built for batch databases, not streaming systems. And AI coding agents amplify every weakness in existing test strategies because they need current, realistic data or they generate buggy code based on outdated assumptions.
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Syslog Checks: How to find Insights in the Data Flood

Feb 12, 2026 By Geoffrin Edwin In Site24x7
Every SysAdmin knows the feeling. They are swimming in logs—terabytes of them. Every daemon, service, and kernel subsystem religiously writing their activities to syslog. The data exists. The signals are there. Yet, somehow, incidents still are still unpredictable. How is this even possible? Here's why this happens: Traditional syslog infrastructure was designed for storage and retrieval, not detection and response.
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Why Your Company Will Be Running OpenClaw Next Year

Feb 12, 2026 By Josh Thornton In Speedscale
You’ve probably heard of OpenClaw. Maybe you’ve seen the demos where an AI agent opens a browser, navigates to your CRM, fills in a form, and files a support ticket. No API required. Maybe you thought “that’s cool but I’d never run that at work.” Your employees already are. According to Permiso’s research, 22% of enterprise customers have employees running OpenClaw without IT approval.
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FinOps Maturity Has Never Been Higher. So Why Is Cloud Efficiency Plummeting?

Feb 12, 2026 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
Whoever thought we’d see the day when cloud cost management (CCM) seemed easy? CloudZero just released FinOps In The AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, an annual report on the state of cloud and AI costs. The report surfaced what looks like a paradox: FinOps maturity is accelerating, but organizational cloud efficiency is plummeting. 72% of organizations now have formal cloud cost management (CCM) programs. That’s nearly double what we saw in our last survey (39%).
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The AI-nigma: FinOps Is Maturing - So Why Is Cloud Efficiency Falling?

Feb 12, 2026 By Larry Advey In CloudZero
Q: What do you call it when FinOps maturity surges but cloud efficiency plummets? A: An AI-nigma. I don’t claim to be a comedian. But I do claim to be Fred FinOps, so the paradoxical findings from CloudZero’s new report titled FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, created in partnership with B2B SaaS benchmarking firm Benchmarkit, had me scratching my head. The good news: These numbers tell a story of cloud cost maturity and control. But then there’s the bad news.
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Sustainable AI Investment: A Systems Thinking Approach

Feb 12, 2026 By Adam Tankanow In CloudZero
According to our new report, FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, 40% of companies now spend $10M or more annually on AI. Most can’t tell you if it’s working. That’s not a budgeting problem. It’s a systems problem. And Donella Meadows wrote the playbook for understanding it.
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The PaaS Graveyard: Why Platforms Keep Dying and Developers Keep Migrating

Feb 12, 2026 By Kash Sajadi In Cloud 66
I've been in this industry since before the word "PaaS" existed. I founded Cloud 66 in 2012 — the same year Heroku was peaking, dotCloud was pivoting to become Docker, and the idea of "just git push and forget about servers" felt like the future. It was the future. Partly. The deployment experience was revolutionary. The business model wasn't. Last week, Heroku announced its transition to "sustaining mode" — no new features, no new enterprise contracts.
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