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AI on constrained embedded devices with Ubuntu Core

As AI moves closer to production, running inference on embedded devices is becoming essential, but challenging. In this session, Gabriel Aguiar Noury (Product Manager at Canonical) explores how snaps and Ubuntu Core simplify the packaging and deployment of AI models on resource-constrained devices, while maintaining security and updatability.

Getting started with Jenkins dashboards

Jenkins is an open-source automation server widely used for continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD), enabling developers to automate the building, testing, and deployment of software projects. Jenkins requires a good layer of visualization as it provides real-time visibility into pipeline performance, build statuses, test results, and deployment progress.

Kubernetes v1.33: An Insider Perspective

I was lucky enough to serve on the v1.33 Release Team as Comms Shadow, and it was truly awe-inspiring to see the inner workings of the world’s biggest open-source project. There is a lot to cover around the structure, governance, processes, and maintenance of the Kubernetes project, but in this blog post, I want to focus on the exciting new features that v1.33 brings and what it means for all of us. Check out the official Kubernetes release blog for more details!

How AI Is Reframing the Software Development Operation Rules

There's a revolution in the making in software development. It's about working smarter. Teams scale without lag and produce consistently high-performing systems. And artificial intelligence is stepping up as a game-changing partner. This shift isn't automation - it's intelligence. AI is bringing sense to complexity, allowing teams to cut through noise and ship quality code. It makes DevOps pipelines stronger than ever. Let's get in there and look at how AI is taking drudgery off the table and redefining operational excellence for the tech stack.

Eliminating Flaky Tests with Traffic Replay

There are few things that can derail developer productivity and undermine your pipeline like a flaky test. Testing is the backbone of a good development process, ensuring that your code is as accurate and usable as possible. When these tests point towards faulty development, the impacts can be significant. This information is predicated on an assumption, however – the assumption that what the test says is accurate.

The use of AI has become the expectation, are you keeping up?

In the last few months, it feels like LLMs have gone from a nice place to consult for a few ideas to the first place you might turn for input. An AI can offer insight on that work presentation you need to put together, it will write you a business plan outline with two lines of prompting—and include categories you might forget to add, and, most impressively for me recently, it will even criticise your tone in work correspondence.

Shift Left: The Public to Private Cloud Evolution

We're taking a look at our clients' journey to a hybrid-cloud architecture, exploring the benefits private cloud boasts over public, and how this helps an organisation's digital transformation. In a previous post, we explored the drivers behind an organisation moving from an on-premise strategy to the use of private clouds.

Dynamic Demands, Dynamic Solutions: IT's Role in the Next AI Workflow Evolution

I have just finished reviewing the Microsoft Work Trend Index Annual Report for 2025, which offers fascinating insights into the next wave of organizational evolution. I am particularly excited about the section titled ‘Journey to the Frontier Firm’ and what is possible in phase three, where employees will harness the power of multiple AI agents, creating an ‘agentic swarm’ capable of executing tasks at a scale and speed previously unimaginable.

Densify and Nutanix Partner to Deliver AI-Driven, Fully Automated Kubernetes Optimization

We’re thrilled to announce our partnership with Nutanix, integrating Densify’s AI-powered Kubernetes optimization solution, Kubex, with the Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP). This collaboration brings together two leading technologies to radically improve how enterprise Kubernetes environments are managed—through AI-driven insights and end-to-end automation of resource optimization.

Streamline your LangChain deployments with Langserve on GCP

Deploying Large Language Model (LLM) applications can transform ideas into valuable services. But, deployment challenges can slow down even experienced developers. In this tutorial, you will build and deploy a LangChain application using LangServe and CircleCI on Google Cloud Run. You will create a text summarization tool powered by Google’s Gemini model. You will use Langserve to expose it as an API. You will automate testing and deployment to Google Cloud Run using CircleCI.