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If you’re like most developers, you know that writing code isn’t the bottleneck anymore. AI has made it faster than ever, and chances are you’re already using it. Yet, delivering software is still complex because of everything else you have to manage: fixing vulnerabilities, reducing tech debt, cleaning up feature flags, ensuring test coverage, writing documentation, and the list goes on. That’s why we built Rovo Dev, a context-aware AI agent for developers.

Traditionally, companies had to use separate tools for ETL, data storage, and analytics. Often, this resulted in slow, complex, and expensive data workflows A good example is PwC’s Deals, Insights & Analytics (DIA) team, which faced similar challenges. According to Microsoft, bespoke solutions often took months to build and were difficult to merge, slowing projects and driving up costs. That changed when PwC adopted Azure Synapse Analytics. The result?

Open source has come a long way. Recently I was watching a keynote address by our founder, Mark Shuttleworth, in which he discussed his vision for Ubuntu to provide quality support and security maintenance across the broad open source ecosystem, and it made me reflect on how far the open source software (OSS) community has come. Indeed, when looking at today’s interoperable open source landscape, the fragmented, disconnected landscape of the past seems like another planet.

Atlassian is shutting down OpsGenie. New sales already stopped on June 4, 2025, and the platform will be completely offline by April 5, 2027. As an OpsGenie user, you now face a critical decision: Migrate to Jira Service Management (JSM), Atlassian’s recommended path, or choose a different solution. And if you’re not sure JSM is the right fit for your team’s incident management needs, this review will help you decide. I signed up for JSM and put it through real-world testing.

Scaling your application shouldn’t feel like open-heart surgery. It should feel like flipping a switch. Watch your environment adapt in real time. Horizontal scaling. Vertical scaling. One command. Done. You do not want another war room. You want a clear way to add capacity when traffic increases, without editing and testing complex YAML files for hours or manually rolling out scripts across clusters.

Deploying on AWS efficiently is key. See the updated guide on the best AWS deployment options, covering new features and services.