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AI in DevOps: How MCP and Puppet Are Changing Infrastructure Automation

Mar 24, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
AI adoption in DevOps is accelerating, but trust, accuracy, and real-world usability still matter. In this conversation, Jason St-Cyr sits down with Jessica Gao, Product Manager at Puppet, to unpack how AI is actually being used in infrastructure and operations teams today, and what’s changed over the last 12–18 months. They dive into why enterprises are moving past generic code generation tools and toward domain-specific, MCP-powered AI that integrates directly into existing workflows.
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CMMC Requirements for 2026: How to Stay CMMC 2.0 Compliant & Prove Maturity at Any Level

Mar 24, 2026 By Robin Tatam In Puppet
CMMC requirements have been shifting recently, with a new version of the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC 2.0) and distinct levels requiring distinct controls. Mandatory for practically any organization doing business with the US Department of Defense (DoD), CMMC is unavoidable all along the DoD’s supply chain.
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Kubernetes multi-cluster: the Day-2 enterprise strategy

Mar 24, 2026 By Morgan Perry In Qovery
A multi-cluster Kubernetes architecture distributes application workloads across geographically separated clusters rather than a single environment. This strategy strictly isolates failure domains, ensures regional data compliance, and guarantees global high availability, but demands centralized Day-2 control to prevent exponential cloud costs and operational sprawl.
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10 Best Snowflake Monitoring Tools (Updated 2026)

Mar 24, 2026 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Snowflake is a cloud data platform designed for large-scale analytics, data warehousing, and data processing. It allows teams across an organization to run multiple data workloads on a single platform without managing infrastructure. Snowflake’s architecture is also unique. Compute and storage are completely independent and highly elastic. However, Snowflake’s per-second pricing and elastic compute model make costs highly sensitive to usage.
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Is Website Hosting Worth It for New Businesses? Security, Risks & Performance

Is Website Hosting Worth It for New Businesses? Security, Risks & Performance

Mar 24, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
For many new businesses, building an online presence is no longer optional-it is essential. Whether you are offering products, services, or information, a website helps establish credibility and reach a wider audience. In competitive markets like Singapore, having a reliable website can make a significant difference in how customers perceive your brand. However, one common question among startups is whether investing in website hosting is truly necessary. Concerns about cost, security, and technical complexity often lead businesses to delay or overlook this decision.
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FastAPI Testing: Mock LLM APIs for Free

Mar 23, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Testing a FastAPI app that calls OpenAI, Anthropic, or Gemini gets expensive fast. The problem is not just the API bill in production. It is all the repeated traffic in development: prompt tweaks, CI runs, regression checks, and the load tests you keep putting off because every run burns tokens. Hand-written mocks do not help much once the app is doing multi-step LLM work.
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What is Virtana Application Observability and how is it different?

Mar 23, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
Application Observability, Built for Hybrid Reality Modern applications don’t live in one place. A single transaction might span: Traditional APM shows you the trace. But hybrid reality doesn’t stop at the service layer. True application observability ties transactions to the infrastructure that actually delivered them across cloud, on-prem, and everything in between. Because in hybrid environments, the root cause rarely lives in just one tier.
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Hot code burns: the supply chain case for letting your containers cool before you ship

Mar 23, 2026 By ijlal-loutfi In Canonical
In September 2025, dozens of popular JavaScript packages, like chalk and debug, were compromised on the npm registry. These packages are so ubiquitous they end up in everything: front-end apps, back-end microservices, and CI tooling. Developers didn’t do anything wrong, they just ran the same command they always do: npm install chalk. But then the malware arrived silently. This wasn’t a bug in an operating system. It wasn’t a virus on someone’s laptop.
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Why AI Driven Automation Can't Wait

Mar 23, 2026 By Joni Roberts In Ribbon
Operators today are navigating unprecedented complexity—rising costs, accelerating customer expectations, and increasingly dynamic networks. In this recent video interview, my colleague Kevin Wade and I explore why AI‑driven automation has shifted from a “nice‑to‑have” technology to a core business requirement for telecom operators and beyond.
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Certificate distribution is the last mile nobody solved

Mar 23, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
Certbot is good software in the classic Linux tradition: it does one thing simply and expects you to chain it together with everything else. One server, one certificate, done. The trouble is that most environments are not simple. And the moment yours isn’t, you discover that renewing a certificate and getting it deployed are two different problems, and deployment is your problem.
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