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Data lock-in and freedom are a worldwide problem. As usual, the EU is the first to regulate it. The passing of the Data Act made clear that in Europe, companies are guaranteed: “fairness in the digital environment by clarifying who can create value from data and under which conditions.

ClickUp integration has become a key driver of operational efficiency for over 3 million teams worldwide. By connecting the ClickUp platform with business applications, organizations simplify operations, eliminate manual handoffs, and give leaders the visibility needed to act with confidence. But achieving these outcomes requires a stable integration approach because not all methods offer the same flexibility or access.

MariaDB has become a preferred backend for many enterprises, thanks to features like Galera clustering, JSON functions, and ColumnStore for analytics. But to extract value from MariaDB, organizations need reliable integration with BI tools, ETL pipelines, and custom apps, and this is where MariaDB ODBC drivers come in. These drivers bridge the gap between your database and external systems. But not all of them are production-ready.

Snowflake is the backbone of modern enterprise data architecture, powering over 10,600 organizations—including 800+ Fortune Global 2000 leaders. But thriving in this ecosystem takes more than just the platform. It requires a data architecture that can handle real-world complexity—and that’s where Snowflake connectors come in.

The industry is rapidly moving towards deeper AI integration than ever before. What was once simply focused on chatbots or recommendation engines has pivoted significantly to AI systems communicating with other AI systems. These AI tools are leveraging multi-agent workflows to accomplish complex tasks that traditional systems have struggled with. Innovation without validation is a liability. Any developer worth their salt will know that these systems require ample testability and validation.

Zendesk is a goldmine of customer insights, but extracting that value from its usage is not simple. Teams trying to export data from Zendesk often run into paywall restrictions, API rate limits, and third-party tools that promise simplicity but falter at scale. For organizations integrating support data into BI platforms, migrating systems, or automating reporting pipelines, these challenges stall analytics and strategy.

The Linux Foundation’s latest report, Open source as Europe’s strategic advantage: trends, barriers, and priorities for the European open source community amid regulatory and geopolitical shifts, provides key insights into how European enterprises are using open source software (OSS), as well as the barriers towards further development of open source in the continent.

If you’re struggling to contain cloud costs in this suddenly volatile AI-fixated environment, it might be time to consider FinOps as an exercise in granular allocation and unit economics, with a focus on outcome.

When a payment service runs across 12 pods — each serving different customer segments — and an authentication layer spans three namespaces, performance issues can originate in both the application code and the orchestration layer. The challenge is linking request-level performance data with what’s happening inside the cluster: container CPU limits, pod scheduling decisions, and node-level events.

We’re excited to announce step metrics – a new capability coming to Bitbucket Pipelines to help you better manage and optimise your CI/CD workflows. Ever wondered what’s happening under the hood during your pipeline runs? Step metrics provide a window into the resource usage of your build and service containers. More specifically, step metrics let you monitor CPU and memory usage for each build and service container in your pipeline steps.