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Real-Time Visibility, Orchestrated Deployments, and More

The latest VirtualMetric DataStream release brings a significant step forward in platform observability and deployment flexibility. Version 1.9.0 gives security and infrastructure teams direct visibility into what’s happening across their pipelines in real time while expanding support for cloud-native environments and broadening connectivity options. Here’s what’s new.

Lowering PUE: Building Envelope Efficiency in Edge Computing Units

Edge computing is changing how we handle data across the globe. Smaller units closer to the user need smart cooling to stay efficient. Compact systems handle big tasks in small spaces without needing giant server rooms. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) tracks how much energy goes to IT versus support. Improving the outer shell of units helps keep costs low. High efficiency is a goal for every tech site, and it saves money.

The Observability Gap: Why Monitoring Data Should Drive Tests

Most teams already know a lot about production. They have dashboards. They have traces. They have alerts. They have enough telemetry to explain what happened after an incident and enough graphs to argue about it for the rest of the week. Then they go to test a change and start from scratch. The integration tests hit a hand-written mock that returns {"status": "ok"}. The load tests replay a CSV somebody exported months ago. Staging is close enough to production right up until it matters.

dotConnect for Zoho CRM | Connect Zoho CRM to .NET Apps Easily

Bring Zoho CRM data into your.NET applications with dotConnect for Zoho CRM—a fast, reliable ADO.NET provider built for secure and efficient connectivity. Set up in minutes using a Windows installer or NuGet, then explore and manage your CRM data from Visual Studio. This video walks you through connecting via Server Explorer, authenticating with Interactive OAuth, running queries through standard ADO.NET workflows, and integrating with popular ORMs like EF Core and Dapper.

Groq vs. GPUs: The future of AI inference in 2026

Back in 2016, Jonathan Ross founded Groq, the AI chip startup, which went on to enter a non-exclusive licensing agreement with NVIDIA for Groq’s inference technology (as part of a $20 billion deal). The name ‘Groq’ is commonly confused with X (formerly Twitter)’s Grok, which was launched in 2023 as a Gen AI chatbot. As demand for real-time AI continues to grow, inference has become one of the most important and expensive parts of the machine learning lifecycle.

£10M Investment in UK AI Infrastructure | Pulsant CEO Talks to Data Centre Solutions

Join Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland in an exclusive interview with Phil Alsop, Editor at Data Centre Solutions (@datacentres), as they explore Pulsant’s £10 million investment in the Milton Keynes data centre. This upgrade delivers high-density, sovereign computing capacity, helping businesses accelerate AI and tech projects while keeping data secure and local. Rob also shares plans to expand this high-density model across the UK, supporting enterprise AI at scale and boosting local economies.

Build Numbers That Actually Make Sense: Branch-Scoped Sequence IDs in Harness CI | Harness Blog

You're tagging Docker images with build numbers. -Build is your latest production release on main. A developer pushes a hotfix to release-v2.1, that run becomes build. -Another merges to develop, build. A week later someone asks: "What build number are we on for production?" You check the registry. -You see,,, on main. The numbers in between? Scattered across feature branches that may never ship. Your build numbers have stopped telling a useful story.

Women's Day Panel: Navigating the Future of Engineering in the Age of AI

How is AI reshaping engineering—and what does it mean for the future of work? At our first GTA Boston Hub event of the year, we brought together engineering leaders from Boston Consulting Group and Athenahealth to dive into one of the most pressing topics today: the rise of generative AI. In this panel, we explore: Key takeaway: This isn’t “human vs AI”—it’s human augmented by AI. The real advantage lies in how we adapt, collaborate, and lead in this new era.