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Spectrum Delivers Bare-Metal RPC Infrastructure for Next-Gen Blockchain Operations

In today's fast-evolving web3 environment, infrastructure plays a decisive role in how decentralized applications (dApps) perform and scale. Spectrum, a global Remote Procedure Call (RPC) provider, is meeting this challenge head-on with a bare-metal infrastructure that spans continents and supports over one billion daily RPC requests across more than 175 blockchain networks.

How to Set Up and Manage LTO Tape Backup Systems That Last

Building a dependable LTO tape backup system starts with more than just the right hardware. From physical setup to ongoing tape management, each step plays a direct role in long-term data protection. Skipping planning or using mismatched components can lead to wasted time, damaged media, and incomplete backups. Hardware, software, labelling, storage, and tape rotation: This guide has you covered. It's all here, explained simply. We'll also look at what's usually missed. Testing. Without routine validation, your backups can fail silently. Keep your system running smoothly!

The Top AI Models And Trends Shaping SaaS in 2025

Two years ago, a “state-of-the-art” AI model could write decent copy or summarize a meeting transcript. Today, the top AI models can generate working code, analyze video in real time, and reason through complex scenarios. For SaaS teams, these changes represent a strategic crossroads. Choose the right model and you unlock new revenue streams, slash time-to-market, and wow your users.

What is Real User Monitoring

Real User Monitoring (RUM) measures how real users interact with your application in production. Unlike synthetic monitoring, which relies on scripted tests, RUM collects data from actual sessions. This means performance is observed across different devices, networks, and usage patterns. The result is a clear view of how the application behaves under real conditions, where latency is introduced, which features take longer to load, and at what points users drop off.

To Bitbucket from Jenkins: Enhancing Developer Experience

Atlassian’s Bitbucket Cloud has tightly integrated CI/CD capabilities via its Bitbucket Pipelines feature set. However, some of our Bitbucket Cloud and Bitbucket Data Center customers still use Jenkins for CI/CD. In this blog, I present a practical walkthrough of the benefits of Bitbucket Pipelines over a tool like Jenkins in the context of two key stats from our recent State of DevEx 2025 report.

FrogML SDK: the Gateway to Model Governance

Data-driven decisions are critical. And to support high-stakes decision-making – from fraud detection in credit card transactions to demand forecasting in retail – organizations are increasingly relying on complex models. According to McKinsey, 78% of organizations report using AI in at least one business function, highlighting just how embedded AI and ML models have become in operational and strategic decision-making.

Puppet Enterprise Installations with the Administration Module (PEADM)

In this real-time walkthrough, learn how to install and upgrade Puppet Enterprise using the Puppet Enterprise Administration Module (PEADM). This module helps you with admin and maintenance tasks and really helps you ensure that installations are consistently executed each and every time. Follow along from configuration to execution as Tony Green runs a monolithic installation example and provides an overview of the resources and options available to you.

Your APIs Are Green. Your Background Jobs Are Dying.

Launch Week Day 2: Introducing Discover Jobs Your dashboard looks perfect. APIs responding in 80ms. Error rates at 0.02%. Kubernetes pods healthy. Everything's green. Then Slack explodes: "Why didn't my invoice generate?" "Where's my password reset email?" "The data export I requested yesterday is still processing?" You check your job queue. Sidekiq dashboard shows 47,000 jobs processed today. Redis looks fine. Workers are running. But somehow, your business logic is silently falling apart.

Best of both worlds: relaxAI API brings sovereignty and affordability to OpenAI

The UK’s Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) recently published its final verdict on the state of the cloud industry. While the tone may have softened since its initial findings, the conclusion was still damning: hyperscalers like AWS and Microsoft continue to unfairly dominate the cloud market through opaque, inflated pricing and technical lock-in strategies.