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Digital Infrastructure Expertise: The Secret Sauce for Scaling AI

The past few years have seen the incredible rise of cloud-native AI start-ups, many of them born during the pandemic. These companies emerged agile, experimental, and ready to scale. But as their ambitions grow and their AI models become more complex, they face a critical crossroads: how to manage infrastructure sustainably while continuing to innovate at speed. In the early days, public cloud services were the obvious choice.

Netdata AI Troubleshooting is Now Generally Available with On-Demand Credits

Since launching our AI investigations and insights in a research preview, one thing has become clear: automated root cause analysis delivers a significant return on investment. Teams have confirmed that instant insights don’t just save a few minutes; they fundamentally shorten incident response cycles, free up valuable engineering hours, and reduce the business impact of downtime.

New in Redgate Monitor: Oracle Data Guard support

Redgate Monitor now supports Oracle Data Guard environments, giving DBAs instant visibility into replication health, lag and role transitions, so Standbys stay in sync and are ready to protect availability and data when needed. DBAs running Oracle Data Guard know that keeping replicas healthy requires constant vigilance. It often involves querying dynamic performance views, such as V$DATAGUARD_STATS, or running Data Guard Broker commands to check lag and role status.

Build and deploy a Pinecone question answering RAG application

Vector databases allow you to store, manage, and efficiently query high-dimensional vector data, which are numerical representations of data like text, images, or audio. Pinecone is a fully managed vector database optimized for fast, scalable similarity search—to power a Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) system. This allows you to enhance language model responses by grounding them in relevant context retrieved from your own documents.

#048 - Shaping the Future of Software Development with Idan Gazit (GitHub Next)

Meet Idan Gazit from GitHub Next, a team responsible for projects like GitHub Copilot. Gazit, despite jokingly claiming to be "the least knowledgeable about Kubernetes," shares his diverse career journey, spanning from early web development with Perl and Django to his time at Heroku and eventually GitHub. He discusses his team's role in prototyping future software development solutions, emphasizing the importance of identifying and nurturing risky, impactful ideas for developers, even if it means "killing projects" that don't gain traction.

Console Connect becomes first to achieve Mplify's new LSO API certification

Console Connect has become the first platform to be certified under Mplify’s (formerly MEF) expanded Lifecycle Service Orchestration (LSO) API Certification Program. The certification recognises Console Connect’s achievement in validating four of Mplify’s key LSO Business APIs – Address Validation, Quote, Product Order, and Product Inventory – ensuring they meet strict standards for conformance and interoperability.

A Single Hub for Telemetry: OpenTelemetry Gateway

The OpenTelemetry Gateway (OTel Gateway) is a centralized service that collects, processes, and routes telemetry data—metrics, traces, and logs—across your infrastructure. In a typical setup, each service pushes telemetry directly to an observability backend. While this approach works well for small environments, it becomes increasingly difficult to manage as systems grow.

Gemini AI Pricing: What You'll Really Pay In 2025

If your team is experimenting with Google’s latest Gemini models, you’ve probably noticed the pricing can get murky. And like any cloud service, usage-based billing means those features can quickly rack up your SaaS costs. Free tiers fade fast. Token usage gets fuzzy. And before long, your GenAI bill feels more like a guessing game than a budget line item.