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Boost Is Now In Public Preview

Today, we’re excited to announce that Boost is moving out of beta and into public preview. After months of building, breaking, and rebuilding inside JFrog’s own R&D organization, Boost is ready for the world. If you are currently running into token limits, unpredictable costs, or runaway usage from AI agents, Boost was built for you. It has already helped our teams reduce token spend while maintaining performance.

Building AI SRE Agents, Part 1: Start Local, Break Things, Learn Fast

The first stage of AI SRE maturity is a laptop, a throwaway cluster, and zero production access. Here’s how to set it up, and what to watch for. AI SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) agents are AI-powered systems that automate the most time-consuming parts of incident response: triaging alerts, correlating logs and metrics, generating root-cause hypotheses, and proposing remediation steps.

Managing Ubuntu on bare metal at scale

Modern infrastructure teams are expected to deliver cloud-like speed, consistency, and reliability, even when their workloads run on physical servers. Bare metal remains essential for many environments: private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, AI infrastructure, edge sites, regulated platforms, and large Ubuntu estates. But operating physical infrastructure at scale is difficult when provisioning, patching, monitoring, and lifecycle management are handled by disconnected tools and manual processes.

How to Migrate Terraform State Between Backends

Terraform state doesn't stay put forever. Teams outgrow local state files, consolidate multiple backends into one, switch cloud providers, or decide it's time to move off a platform that's no longer working for them - HCP Terraform's free tier ending and its resource-based pricing is a common trigger these days. Whatever the reason, the state file itself is the part everyone's afraid to touch, because it's the only record of what Terraform thinks your infrastructure actually is.

Application monitoring tools in 2026: APM, observability, and AI monitoring compared

Application monitoring tools track your application's health, speed, errors, and resource usage in real time. Also called APM tools or application performance monitoring software, these tools are essential for any team running production workloads. The leading options in 2026 are Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Elastic APM for traditional workloads, plus Arize AI, LangSmith, and Weights & Biases for AI observability.

How to Streamline Your IT Inventory Storage

Managing corporate hardware stacks often leads to server rooms filled with tangled cords, old monitors, and dusty components. Stash areas get crowded quickly when legacy laptops pile up next to active spare parts. Clearing this extra clutter simplifies daily operations; it keeps your workspace safe and functional. Finding a systematic approach keeps track of your hardware assets without driving your desktop support team crazy.

Why UK Businesses are Shifting Away From the Public Cloud Cost Model

Over the past five years, one of the most consistently tracked figures in the UK business technology sector has been the flight from public cloud. Barclays' 2021 CIO survey revealed that 43% of enterprises plan to shift workloads away from public cloud. By 2024, that had grown to 83%.