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The DevOps Hiring Crunch: How Distributed Teams Are Closing the Gap

The DevOps Hiring Crunch: How Distributed Teams Are Closing the Gap

Jul 11, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Ask any engineering leader what keeps them up at night and "who's covering the pager next Tuesday" is usually somewhere on the list. DevOps and SRE roles have become some of the hardest positions to fill in software, and the shortage is starting to show up in the metrics ops teams care about most: MTTR, alert fatigue, and how many people are burned out on the on-call rotation.
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Shai-Hulud style attacks need more than scanning

Jul 10, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Pre-install scripts mean a malicious package can compromise a developer's laptop the moment it's pulled – no build, no deploy, no install required. That breaks the old model where scanning catches a bad package after the fact, when it's already too late. The fix is active policy enforcement at the point of pull, using signals like package age, signed provenance, and maintainer trust to filter out malicious packages before they ever land.
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We rebuilt Spike app for Slack

Jul 10, 2026 By Spike - incident response platform In Spike
The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.
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Slack overview video

Jul 10, 2026 By Spike - incident response platform In Spike
The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.
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Upgrade Your AWS Deploy Orb to Get Deploy Markers

Jul 10, 2026 By Mari Federow In CircleCI
Upgrade to the latest version of your AWS deploy orb to get automatic registration of deploy markers. This will give you instant access to deployment timeline, auto-rollback, and version comparison when something breaks — for about five minutes of effort. It will also switch you to OIDC, so there are no long-lived keys to manage. It’s a single version bump. Here’s how.
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How Agentic AIOps & Autonomous IT Are Revolutionizing IT Operations | LogicMonitor + IBM

Jul 10, 2026 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
Discover how LogicMonitor and IBM, alongside Edwin AI, are transforming modern IT operations. In this panel discussion, Garth Fort (Chief Product Officer at LogicMonitor) and industry experts break down how businesses are moving past basic observability to embrace self-healing automation and autonomous IT across complex hybrid environments.
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Why AI agents need a job description | The future of agentic AI in IT

Jul 10, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
An AI agent is only as useful as the job you can safely hand it. In this Zero Ticket Minute, Ian Coppock, Resolve Customer & Partner Marketing Manager, breaks down why enterprise AI is moving toward purpose-built agents with defined roles, scoped permissions, and real guardrails. That is the foundation for autonomous IT operations and Zero Ticket IT. Subscribe for weekly insights on AI, IT automation, and where enterprise operations are heading.
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Why features pass QA and still break in production

Jul 10, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Database migrations are where the mock data problem shows up most clearly. A migration that adds an index to a table with 500 rows in the development database runs in milliseconds and passes every test. The same migration against a production table with 8 million rows locks the table for 90 seconds during peak traffic. Nobody saw it coming because nobody tested it against 8 million rows. This isn't an edge case.
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IPoDWDM Router Solutions: A Modern Approach to Network Architecture

Jul 10, 2026 By David Stokes In Ribbon
The relentless growth of data traffic, driven by cloud services, high-speed residential broadband, 5G mobility, and enterprise digitalization, places enormous pressure on network infrastructure. Service providers and large enterprises must scale capacity while simultaneously controlling costs and reducing operational complexity. In this environment, traditional network architectures are reaching their breaking point, creating an urgent need for a more efficient and integrated approach to transport.
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PostgreSQL 19 Release: New Features, Release Date, and Upgrade Notes

Jul 9, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
With PostgreSQL 19 on the horizon, query planning could get smarter thanks to new query tools and faster maintenance. The release is still a few months away, but Beta 1 already shows where PostgreSQL is headed. Released on June 4, 2026, PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 previews most of what’s planned for the final release.
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speedscale

AI writes code in seconds, but delivery still takes days

Jul 9, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
The pitch for AI coding was speed. Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, whatever you’re running, they all generate business logic faster than you can review it. That part is real. But look at what happens after the code gets written and the numbers get ugly. CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery Report found AI drove a 59% increase in average throughput.
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Application monitoring tools in 2026: APM, observability, and AI monitoring compared

Jul 9, 2026 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero
Application monitoring tools track your application's health, speed, errors, and resource usage in real time. Also called APM tools or application performance monitoring software, these tools are essential for any team running production workloads. The leading options in 2026 are Datadog, New Relic, Dynatrace, Grafana, and Elastic APM for traditional workloads, plus Arize AI, LangSmith, and Weights & Biases for AI observability.
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env0

How to Migrate Terraform State Between Backends

Jul 9, 2026 By Zeen Rachidi In env0
Terraform state doesn't stay put forever. Teams outgrow local state files, consolidate multiple backends into one, switch cloud providers, or decide it's time to move off a platform that's no longer working for them - HCP Terraform's free tier ending and its resource-based pricing is a common trigger these days. Whatever the reason, the state file itself is the part everyone's afraid to touch, because it's the only record of what Terraform thinks your infrastructure actually is.
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canonical

Managing Ubuntu on bare metal at scale

Jul 9, 2026 By David Beamonte In Canonical
Modern infrastructure teams are expected to deliver cloud-like speed, consistency, and reliability, even when their workloads run on physical servers. Bare metal remains essential for many environments: private clouds, Kubernetes clusters, AI infrastructure, edge sites, regulated platforms, and large Ubuntu estates. But operating physical infrastructure at scale is difficult when provisioning, patching, monitoring, and lifecycle management are handled by disconnected tools and manual processes.
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Komodor

Building AI SRE Agents, Part 1: Start Local, Break Things, Learn Fast

Jul 9, 2026 By Nir Adler In Komodor
The first stage of AI SRE maturity is a laptop, a throwaway cluster, and zero production access. Here’s how to set it up, and what to watch for. AI SRE (Site Reliability Engineering) agents are AI-powered systems that automate the most time-consuming parts of incident response: triaging alerts, correlating logs and metrics, generating root-cause hypotheses, and proposing remediation steps.
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jfrog

Boost Is Now In Public Preview

Jul 9, 2026 By Yahav Ohana & Shay Dahan In JFrog
Today, we’re excited to announce that Boost is moving out of beta and into public preview. After months of building, breaking, and rebuilding inside JFrog’s own R&D organization, Boost is ready for the world. If you are currently running into token limits, unpredictable costs, or runaway usage from AI agents, Boost was built for you. It has already helped our teams reduce token spend while maintaining performance.
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Why cloud repatriation is happening now

Jul 9, 2026 By Civo In Civo
Cloud first was gospel for a decade. But the calculus has changed, and organisations are asking harder questions about where their workloads actually belong. In this clip, Civo Product Director Russ Smith breaks down the four forces that have converged to shift the default: spiralling bills that are no longer defensible at scale, the Broadcom acquisition that detonated VMware pricing overnight, sovereignty becoming a boardroom procurement requirement, and AI making new hardware brutally expensive.
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How to Streamline Your IT Inventory Storage

How to Streamline Your IT Inventory Storage

Jul 9, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Managing corporate hardware stacks often leads to server rooms filled with tangled cords, old monitors, and dusty components. Stash areas get crowded quickly when legacy laptops pile up next to active spare parts. Clearing this extra clutter simplifies daily operations; it keeps your workspace safe and functional. Finding a systematic approach keeps track of your hardware assets without driving your desktop support team crazy.
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Why UK Businesses are Shifting Away From the Public Cloud Cost Model

Why UK Businesses are Shifting Away From the Public Cloud Cost Model

Jul 8, 2026 By Pulsant In Pulsant
Over the past five years, one of the most consistently tracked figures in the UK business technology sector has been the flight from public cloud. Barclays' 2021 CIO survey revealed that 43% of enterprises plan to shift workloads away from public cloud. By 2024, that had grown to 83%.
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GitLens 18.2: AI-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution for VS Code

Jul 8, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
Merge conflicts rarely make it into a sprint retrospective, but they should. They’re one of the most reliable ways to lose an hour of flow without anyone noticing it’s gone. Every developer expects them eventually, but almost nobody questions the workflow around resolving them.
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certkit

Certificate deployments just got an easy mode

Jul 8, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
The old deployment flow expected a lot from you. You had to know what format your certificate needed to be in. You had to know where it should be stored on the target system. Then you had to review and customize a deployment script in a code editor before anything ran. It turns out most of you don’t want to do that. And fair enough, staring at a script editor when you just want a certificate on your Exchange server is a little intimidating.
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megaport

Make Public Peering More Resilient with BFD and BGP Add-Path on MegaIX

Jul 8, 2026 By Gavin Tweedie In Megaport
Standard BGP can be slow to react. See how BFD and BGP Add-Path help improve uptime and path diversity on MegaIX. When peering on a public Internet Exchange (IX), standard BGP behavior can introduce delays during topology changes. But if you use MegaIX, there are workarounds. In this blog, we explain two lesser-used features available on MegaIX which maximize uptime and path diversity: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) and BGP Add-Path.
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cloudzero

Deployment strategies explained: types, trade-offs, and what each one actually costs

Jul 8, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
A deployment strategy is the method an engineering team uses to release new software to production. The six core deployment strategies are recreate (big bang), rolling update, blue-green, canary, A/B testing, and shadow deployment. Each trades off between downtime risk, rollback speed, infrastructure cost, and complexity. This guide covers all six along with what each strategy actually costs in cloud and AI infrastructure spend.
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circleci

5 takeaways from the State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report

Jul 8, 2026 By Jacob Schmitt In CircleCI
AI is pushing code volume up almost everywhere. Shipping it is still the hard part, and the gap between leaders and everyone else is getting wider. Today we’re releasing the 2026 State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report, a shorter check-in between our annual reports. We analyzed more than 20 million CircleCI workflows from March 2026 to see what’s changed since the comprehensive 2026 State of Software Delivery report we published in Q1.
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How to Set Up Codex with CircleCI Plugin (Full Demo)

Jul 8, 2026 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Learn how to connect OpenAI Codex to CircleCI so your coding agent can check pipelines, diagnose failed builds, fix bugs, and iterate until your CI pipeline is green. In this step-by-step demo, we walk through how to install and authenticate the CircleCI CLI, install the CircleCI plugin for Codex, validate your CircleCI configuration, and give Codex direct access to CI feedback. You’ll see how Codex can.
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cortex

DORA measures delivery. DRIVE measures the organization behind it.

Jul 8, 2026 By Cortex In Cortex
You can hit every DORA target and still be losing ground. Deploy frequency up, lead time down, change failure rate and MTTR both healthy, but underneath it could be hiding an organization slowly getting worse at turning work into reliable software. New services shipping without clear owners, an attack surface widening faster than anyone is tracking, on-call rotations quietly filling up, a migration that was supposed to close last quarter still limping along.
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How to Build Enterprise AI Agents with Natural Language | Agent Lab Demo, Guardrails & AI Skills

Jul 8, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Most enterprise AI agents take weeks to build. This one takes minutes. Watch how Agent Lab creates purpose-built agents with natural language, adds reusable skills, and sets guardrails before anything ships. From idea to production-ready in a single sitting.
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AI ROI: From Adoption to Business Proof

Jul 8, 2026 By GitKraken In GitKraken
AI adoption is easy to report. Business impact is harder to prove. Engineering leaders are under pressure to show what AI is actually changing — not just who is using it, but whether it is improving delivery, quality, developer experience, and business outcomes. This discussion between 3 engineering leaders explores how to move beyond vanity metrics, build a practical measurement approach, and communicate AI’s value to executives and CFOs with more credibility and less hype.
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Make SBOM generation a build step, not a compliance project

Jul 8, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Compliance work that lives outside the build pipeline becomes developer friction – and friction kills adoption. The simpler fix is to make SBOM generation a standard pipeline step via a reusable template, with output routed automatically to central storage and surfaced to the teams who need it. When developers can see their own license issues and vulnerability exposure without filing a ticket, compliance stops being a tax and starts being a byproduct of shipping.
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How to Monitor AI Chats for Risky Content? | AirDroid Parental Control

Jul 8, 2026 By AirDroidOfficial In AirDroid
Is your teen talking to AI chatbots in private? Kids aren’t only spending time on social media anymore — they’re also turning to AI chatbots for advice, stories, and emotional support. Our new Social Content Detection feature now supports AI apps like Character.AI, Gemini and ChatGPT, allowing you to monitor risky keywords and see context screenshots when something feels off. In this video, we'll cover.
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How to enable post-quantum cryptography and TLS termination with HAProxy

Jul 7, 2026 By David Rodriguez Arias In HAProxy
Every time a client connects to your server, a small negotiation happens before a single byte of application data moves. That negotiation, the TLS handshake, is what makes encrypted web traffic possible. It's also at risk of being recorded. Not the content of your sessions, but the handshake itself. And that's enough. A well-resourced attacker doesn't need to break your encryption today.
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How to Evaluate an Agentic Process Automation Platform in 2026

Jul 7, 2026 By Zack Austin In Resolve
Agentic AI has moved quickly from experimentation to enterprise planning. IT leaders are no longer asking whether AI agents can summarize tickets; they’re asking a more important question: Can agentic AI actually complete work consistently and measurably? That is where agentic process automation becomes critical.
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pulsant

What is digital transformation and why it is important?

Jul 7, 2026 By Pulsant In Pulsant
A digital transformation can help a business thrive. Developing a strong technology stack that works for your business is essential for growth. Investing in a digital transformation means finding what works for your business and ensuring the best operations through your digital tools.
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Cloud 66

When Anyone Can Build Software, Deployment Governance Is What Keeps It Safe

Jul 7, 2026 By Kelley Schultz In Cloud 66
This is Post 2 of The Governance Gap series. Post 1, "The New Software Creator," established that the most significant shift from AI isn't developer speed - it's that the population of builders has fundamentally expanded. Something quiet happened in most engineering organizations over the last 18 months.
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upsun

Why individual AI adoption is breaking team-level throughput

Jul 7, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
There is a question a lot of engineering leaders are quietly sitting with right now: we have rolled out AI tools across the team, the developers seem faster, so why isn't more software actually shipping? It is a reasonable thing to consider. Pull requests are opening faster. Lines of code per sprint are up. The boilerplate that used to take full afternoons now takes minutes. By every local measure, the investment is paying off.
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Driving Value from Puppet Metrics: Puppet Observability Data Connector

Jul 7, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
The Puppet Observability Data Connector is a premium Forge module included with Puppet Enterprise Advanced (PEA). This module provides a deeper dive into your Puppet agent reports. Visualizing these metrics gives you a great way to identify what is healthy and unhealthy in your environment.
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canonical

Ubuntu Server: a platform made for enterprise scale

Jul 7, 2026 By Rhys Knipe In Canonical
A platform is an environment that allows software to run smoothly across the infrastructure, runtime, and application layers. The key word there is “smoothly”: a good platform connects those layers so well that you don’t notice it. That’s what Ubuntu Server has become: the essential layer between bare metal and the apps running on top, continuously optimized across resource management, networking, and security. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS represents over 12 years of that work coming together.
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Cut CI Environment Setup Time in Half with Chunk sidecar Snapshots

Jul 7, 2026 By CircleCI In CircleCI
Waiting minutes for CI feedback while you're building with AI agents kills your momentum. Chunk sidecars snapshots let you freeze your environment after setup, so every boot skips the install and starts from a cached state instead of scratch. In this tutorial, we demo how to set up Chunk sidecars, snapshot it, and boot from that snapshot. We also benchmark the difference: a cold sidecar start took 45 seconds. Booting from the snapshot took 12 seconds. That's 30+ seconds saved on every run, multiplied across every developer, branch, agent, and session.
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Rebuilding the CircleCI CLI from scratch

Jul 7, 2026 By Pete Steyert-Woods In CircleCI
Every developer knows the moment: CI goes red, and you face a choice. Open the browser and click through the web UI to the run, the workflow, the job, the step, the log line. Or stay in the terminal, where the fix is going to happen anyway. The new CircleCI CLI exists so you can stay. It’s 1.0, it’s in beta, and it’s a ground-up rewrite in Go, not an iteration on the CLI we’ve shipped for years.
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How do you run AI when your data can't leave the network?

Jul 7, 2026 By Civo In Civo
Highly classified environment. Strict compliance requirements. Data that can't leave the network. But still a real need for the competitive advantage AI delivers. Civo Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions John Dietz addresses exactly that challenge and how Konstruct makes it possible to run Kubernetes, deploy your own models, and point Claude Code at your own internal private servers instead of public APIs.
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Amit explains AO

Jul 7, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
Most enterprises have observability tools. What they often lack is a shared view between application and infrastructure teams. When application performance degrades, finding the root cause can be slow because the data lives in separate silos. Virtana brings application observability and infrastructure intelligence together in a single platform, helping teams identify issues faster, collaborate more effectively, and shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations.
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Is your data truly yours? Why data sovereignty in India matters more than ever

Jul 7, 2026 By Civo Team In Civo
As businesses in India embrace the cloud, a critical question looms: Where does your data really live, and who controls it? India's cloud market is estimated at USD 26.43 billion in 2026, growing at 21% annually with projections reaching USD 68.82 billion by 2031. This rapid expansion underscores the strategic importance of cloud infrastructure in the country, but with growth comes growing urgency.
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cloudzero

GitHub Copilot cost: what teams actually pay in 2026

Jul 7, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
The GitHub Copilot cost runs from $0 for the Free tier to $10/month for Pro, $39/month for Pro+, and $100/month for Max. Teams pay $19/user/month for Business and $39/user/month for Enterprise. The twist: on June 1, 2026 GitHub swapped fixed premium requests for usage-based AI Credits, so what those flat fees actually buy now depends on how hard you push the AI. The sticker price is the easy part. The part that ambushes finance is everything stacked on top of it.
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certkit

One SSL certificate on multiple servers

Jul 6, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
Every certificate renewal automation tool has to answer one architecture question before it does anything else: where does the private key get generated? A reader who used to be “the certificate guy” at his organization emailed me this week to ask about exactly that: It’s the right instinct. It’s also how most automation tools work. Certbot generates the key on the server, builds a certificate signing request, and the private key never leaves the machine.
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cloudzero

GPT-4 API cost 2026: pricing breakdown and how to estimate it

Jul 6, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
GPT-4 API pricing spans $0.10 to $30.00 per million input tokens across the model family. GPT-4.1 is the current recommended production model at $2.00 input / $8.00 output per million tokens. Legacy GPT-4 still runs at $30.00/$60.00 per million tokens -- 15x more expensive for no meaningful quality gain. For finance and engineering leaders accountable for AI spend, choosing the right GPT-4 variant is the single biggest cost lever on your bill.
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cloudzero

Shipped: Give your Explorer filters & groupings room to scale

Jul 6, 2026 By Kaitlin Woo In CloudZero
The controls at the top of Explorer are great for a simple question. But as your query grows with more group-bys or a stack of filters, those controls start eating into the vertical space you actually want for your data. Now you have the option to move filters and groupings into a dedicated left side panel, so a complex query has room to scale cleanly. Set it once and CloudZero keeps it that way.
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canonical

Beyond safety and security: Why automotive open source demands dependability

Jul 6, 2026 By Jaume Rafols In Canonical
In the traditional automotive world, teams often work in silos: the cybersecurity experts lock down the ports, the quality assurance teams hunt for bugs, and the functional safety engineers track the ISO 26262 compliance. At Canonical, we believe this fragmented workflow causes friction rather than collaboration. You cannot have a safe vehicle that isn’t secure, and you cannot have a secure vehicle running on poor quality code. This friction results in a slow and rigid development process.
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Building an open source chain of trust: new research uncovers key blockers and ways forward

Jul 6, 2026 By Canonical In Canonical
Canonical is pleased to share its latest research report, “The open source chain of trust.” Based on a survey of 500 DevOps professionals, the report highlights how organizations approach their open source software supply chains. While many companies are moving toward verifiable provenance and automated security workflows, internal misalignment and disjointed approaches remain serious challenges for most teams. Read the report.
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upsun

How to patch 40 Drupal sites without 40 manual deployments

Jul 6, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Standardizing the fleet: automated updates for multi-site management There's a specific kind of update that Drupal agencies and enterprise teams dread: a security release in something the whole fleet runs on, the PHP runtime, the database engine, or a shared service, with a patched version available now and a deadline attached. For a team managing a single site, moving to the patched version is an afternoon of work.
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megaport

Megaport Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Compliance

Jul 6, 2026 By Amanda Pinaud Diaz In Megaport
Here’s how Megaport’s new certification gives customers more confidence in the security, availability, and reliability of our platform. Trust is built into infrastructure long before anyone notices it. It sits behind the login screen, inside the change process, across the controls that keep systems protected and services available. It shows up in the quiet, operational work that customers rarely see but rely on every day.
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Vulnerability scanners find problems. A firewall prevents them.

Jul 6, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
A vulnerability scanner tells you what's wrong with dependencies you've already pulled. A dependency firewall decides what enters your environment in the first place. Instead of pulling blindly from public registries, every request is proxied through the firewall – where policy controls what's permitted, threat intelligence flags malicious packages that scanners never see, and enforcement happens at the earliest possible point. Scanning what's already inside is too late.
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They stopped shipping features for half a year, now they're thriving

Jul 6, 2026 By Rootly In Rootly
When incidents pile up fast enough, every part of the company bleeds: support is fielding angry customers, AEs are on apology calls, and engineering is burning cycles on retrospectives instead of shipping. For Eran Kampf (VP of Engineering at Twingate, Co-founder Monday.com) where the product is the network, that was the moment he made a call most engineering leaders won't: stop all feature work for a quarter and fix reliability.
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How to Set Up Claude Code with CircleCI MCP Server (Full Demo)

Jul 6, 2026 By CircleCI In CircleCI
AI agents write code fast, but without a validation layer, fast just means faster bugs. In this video, we connect Claude Code to the CircleCI MCP server so Claude can trigger pipelines, pull build failures into context, and iterate until everything is green. No context switching. No copy-pasting logs.
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tidal

Build Custom Field Templates for Application Assessments

Jul 6, 2026 By David Colebatch In Tidal
Modernization assessments move faster when the structure is already in place. Instead of recreating custom fields, interview questions, and assessment workflows for every customer, you can use a custom field template to standardize how data is collected from the start. This guide shows you how to create a reusable Tidal Accelerator custom field template using Node.js and the Tidal API, so your assessments are easier to repeat, compare, and scale. So you’re starting a modernization practice.
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Modern IT Infrastructure for Business Continuity, Security and Operational Efficiency

Modern IT Infrastructure for Business Continuity, Security and Operational Efficiency

Jul 6, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Modern organizations rely on IT infrastructure for almost every part of daily operations. Communication, customer service, accounting, data storage, remote work, application hosting and internal collaboration all depend on stable digital systems. When infrastructure is reliable, employees can work efficiently and customers experience fewer disruptions. When it is outdated or poorly managed, even small technical issues can quickly affect the entire business.
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Managing IPv4 Address Scarcity: Strategic Allocation for Enterprise Networks

Managing IPv4 Address Scarcity: Strategic Allocation for Enterprise Networks

Jul 6, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The global IPv4 address space is finite. With the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) exhausting its available addresses in 2011 and regional registries following suit shortly after, enterprise IT teams face an unprecedented challenge: how to manage networks and scale infrastructure when new IPv4 addresses simply cannot be created.
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The Server-Room Weak Spots Hackers Count on You Ignoring

The Server-Room Weak Spots Hackers Count on You Ignoring

Jul 5, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
When people think about cybersecurity, they usually picture sophisticated malware, phishing emails, or hackers exploiting software vulnerabilities. In reality, many successful attacks begin with something much simpler: overlooked weaknesses inside the organization's own infrastructure. Server rooms, network closets, and IT equipment often receive less attention than cloud security, yet they remain some of the most valuable targets for attackers.
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Technician in safety glasses assembling an electronic circuit board with a precision tool in a factory

How Quality Methods Drive Operational Excellence

Jul 5, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Operations teams chase the same goal across every sector. They want fewer defects, less rework, and steadier output. The methods that deliver this rarely come from new software alone. Alt text: Technician in safety glasses assembling an electronic circuit board with a precision tool in a factory.
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speedscale

The API tests passed. The database didn't.

Jul 4, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
We shipped v2 of a small products API on a Thursday. Green CI. Green replay. The new search endpoint worked. I went home feeling competent. Friday morning I ran the same traffic against both builds with proxymock and compared the SQL. v2 had added 80 queries on the same HTTP script. A per-product audit COUNT was firing inside the list handler. A startup migration had run ALTER TABLE and CREATE TABLE audit_log. Total DB time was up 70 ms on a demo that should have been boring.
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megaport

Extending the Application Edge with F5 BIG-IP VE and Megaport Virtual Edge

Jul 3, 2026 By Aurelian Bonciog In Megaport
Learn how F5 BIG-IP VE simplifies multicloud application delivery, security, and traffic management with MVE. As enterprise applications continue spreading across multiple clouds, the application edge is changing. A few years ago, application delivery was usually tied to a physical appliance sitting in a data center; today, applications are everywhere.
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motadata

DevOps with Kubernetes: How to Reduce Cluster Toil and Complexity

Jul 3, 2026 By Poonam Lalani In Motadata
Has Kubernetes made your DevOps team faster, or just busier? Most teams adopt it for speed and portability, and they get both. What arrives with it is a quieter cost: the operational weight of running the cluster day to day. That weight shows up in the manual work the platform was supposed to eliminate. A resource limit set incorrectly can waste infrastructure for months.
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The entire cloud stack is just pizza and we can't unsee it

Jul 3, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
The acronym soup is the universal IT rite of passage. So we explained the whole stack with the one thing everyone already understands: pizza. From making the dough yourself to just opening the box, there’s a version for every level of “how much do you actually want to manage.” Alexis can give the full breakdown in the time it takes to decide what you'll order.
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speedscale

Trace without traces

Jul 2, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
A customer emailed on a Tuesday: checkout hung for ten seconds. I opened our tracing tool, punched in the time window, and got nothing. The trace was sampled out. We keep 1% of traces, like most shops with real traffic do. The one request that actually mattered was in the 99% we threw away. I spent twenty minutes admiring our observability stack before admitting it couldn’t answer a first-grader’s question: what happened to this person? Here’s what I know now.
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circleci

ACP vs MCP: What's the difference for agentic coding?

Jul 2, 2026 By Roger Winter In CircleCI
An AI coding agent holds many conversations at once. Not only is the user prompting it, the agent also talks to the IDE, showing diffs and asking before it touches a file. At the same time it talks to tools, pulling a failing build or querying a database. Two open protocols standardize those conversations. This guide compares ACP vs MCP in practical terms: what each protocol does and when each applies. ACP (Agent Client Protocol) connects a code editor to an AI coding agent.
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Cloud repatriation strategies: From public dependency to hybrid flexibility

Jul 2, 2026 By Civo In Civo
For years, "move everything to the cloud" was the default. But the economics have shifted. Join Russell Smith to explore why enterprises are reconsidering their cloud strategies, and how modern private cloud platforms are changing the game. We'll cover the real costs of public cloud lock-in, achieving feature parity without the price premium, and how to navigate today's hardware constraints, especially if you've got existing infrastructure assets that can still deliver value.
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redgate

To learn and improve, we cannot be afraid to fail

Jul 2, 2026 By Rob Richardson In Redgate
“Deployment stress doesn’t just come from high-profile public outages. It often starts much earlier, when a fear of failure seeps into team culture.” Rob Richardson, Software Craftsman Rob certainly knows the stress and embarrassment of public deployment failures. "But overall" he reflects, "I’ve had more stress in my career from internal failures.
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civo

Cloud repatriation strategies: From public dependency to hybrid flexibility

Jul 2, 2026 By Russell Smith In Civo
The phrase "cloud first" dominated IT strategy for the better part of a decade. It was gospel, practically unchallengeable, and for a lot of organizations, it was the right call. But something shifted between 2024 and 2026, and it shifted fast. Bills stopped being defensible. Vendor pricing imploded. Sovereignty stopped being a compliance checkbox and became a procurement requirement.
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cloudzero

OpenAI API cost calculator: estimate your GPT spend before it estimates you

Jul 2, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
This OpenAI API cost calculator (also an AI inference calculator for o3/o4-mini thinking tokens) estimates your monthly OpenAI API pricing bill from three inputs: model, request volume, and average tokens per request. Toggle between standard, batch, and cached pricing and get your number in seconds. It also shows what the same workload costs on Claude and Gemini. For the full per-model rate card, see CloudZero's OpenAI API pricing guide.
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cloudzero

Shipped: The Fastly spend that was hiding in plain sight

Jul 2, 2026 By Scott Castle In CloudZero
CDN and edge spend is easy to lose track of. Fastly bills on its own, off to the side of your cloud invoice – real money, often significant, sitting where none of your cost tooling reaches. So it stays its own island: a lump sum with no easy way to tie it back to the teams, products, and customers driving the traffic.
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AI Summary Agent in Turbo360

Jul 2, 2026 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
Handed over an Azure integration environment you've never seen before? Turbo360's AI Resource Summary agent gives any support operator or engineer an instant plain-English overview of what a resource is, how it behaves, and what to watch out for - without needing to ask the developers. In this demo: Great for: IT operations teams, MSP NOCs, cloud support engineers, and anyone responsible for running integration workloads they didn't build.
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harness

Prepare for the EU AI Act with Harness AI Security | Harness Blog

Jul 2, 2026 By Vikas Gautam In Harness
Harness AI Security provides a unified control plane for AI discovery, risk visibility, and runtime protection, helping organizations operationalize key requirements of the EU AI Act. Instead of relying on manual audits or fragmented tooling, teams get continuous insight into how AI systems are built, exposed, and used, along with the evidence needed to demonstrate compliance.
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virtualmetric

You Can't Detect What You Never Collect: Telemetry Coverage in the Agentic SOC

Jul 2, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Every detection rule, every threat hunt, every AI agent you deploy rests on one silent assumption: that the data describing an attack actually reached your tools. When it doesn’t, nothing above it can save you, and no one gets an alert that the data was missing. Security teams invest heavily in the sharp end of the stack: detection content, threat intelligence, response playbooks, and increasingly, AI agents to triage and investigate at machine speed.
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upsun

Why compliance audits keep slowing your engineering team down

Jul 2, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
If you've shipped software in fintech, healthcare, or government, you probably know the specific dread of an upcoming compliance audit. Not because the software isn't secure, but because proving it is requires reconstructing a paper trail for decisions that were made in Jira tickets, Slack threads, and pull request comments over the last six months. The software is fine. The documentation of the software is the problem.
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rancher

Designing the New Workloads Dashboard for Rancher

Jul 2, 2026 By Ovidiu Boc In Rancher
To meet community demand, we have restored the global workload overview in Rancher Manager. After previously removing the feature due to performance constraints, we prioritized user feedback and rebuilt it from the ground up. Powered by a new, optimized API, the updated UI is both highly scalable and resilient.
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haproxy

How Liftoff cut costs by 87% and latency by 75% with HAProxy

Jul 2, 2026 By Daniel Skrba In HAProxy
Liftoff, a mobile advertising company, processes 1.5 trillion bid requests every month. Their platform touches 275 million unique devices daily across 150 geographies. At that scale, the proxy layer is a core part of the business. For years, Liftoff relied on a managed enterprise proxy vendor. It worked, until it didn’t.
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The golden path: security that works because it's the easy path

Jul 2, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
A golden path for dependency management isn't a policy document – it's a preconfigured private registry with upstream proxies covering every ecosystem your teams use, set as the default. Developers don't opt into security; they get it automatically by using the standard toolchain. The alternative is teams configuring their own controls, producing inconsistent postures and compounding risk across the org. If the secure path requires extra steps, developers will route around it. Make it the easiest option and the policy enforces itself.
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Walkthrough: Puppet System Hardening Assessment

Jul 2, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Is your infrastructure as secure as you think it is? In this walkthrough, see how aSystem Hardening Assessmenthelps organizations identify security gaps, uncover configuration risks, and prioritize remediation efforts across critical systems. You'll learn how teams can evaluate their environment against security best practices, gain visibility into potential vulnerabilities, and take actionable steps to strengthen their overall security posture.
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Why Modern Data Centers Require Better Insulation Strategies for Continuous Uptime

Why Modern Data Centers Require Better Insulation Strategies for Continuous Uptime

Jul 2, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
From streaming platforms to banking networks, today's digital demands rest on advanced facilities that operate without pause. With companies relying heavily on constant connectivity, stability within these environments matters more than ever before. A short disruption might result not only in monetary setbacks but also slower workflows and weakened confidence among users. Although computing hardware, climate controls, and emergency energy sources typically dominate discussions, protective layering quietly contributes just as much to seamless performance.
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How ITOps Can Automate Data Discovery for Rapid Privacy Request Fulfilment

How ITOps Can Automate Data Discovery for Rapid Privacy Request Fulfilment

Jul 2, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
For most organisations, managing data privacy compliance is traditionally viewed as a legal or governance function. However, when a Data Subject Access Request (DSAR) or Freedom of Information (FOI) application is submitted, the actual labour of retrieving that data falls squarely on IT operations. With the passing of the Privacy and Other Legislation Amendment Act 2024, Australian businesses are facing some of the most comprehensive federal privacy reforms in over a decade.
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More Resilience, Less Overhead: How to Modernize Disaster Recovery Testing

Jul 1, 2026 By Gremlin In Gremlin
• Disaster recovery planning is essential for ensuring digital services remain online in the face of catastrophic failures or outages. When a major digital infrastructure outage occurs, systems need to be set up to automatically respond and restore functionality as quickly as possible. But no matter how in-depth your disaster recovery plan is, it’s still only theoretical until it’s thoroughly tested under realistic failure conditions, which is why testing is often mandated by leadership and regulators.
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pagerduty

Rundeck/RBA 6.0: Modernizing the foundation your automation runs on

Jul 1, 2026 By Aatharsha Jeyachelvan In PagerDuty
This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how PagerDuty’s Rundeck/RBA 6.0 recently announced in GA builds towards this vision.
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certkit

Automating SonicWall Certificate Deployment with the SonicOS API

Jul 1, 2026 By Jordan Griffin In CertKit
How do we keep our Sonicwall certificates up to date as certificate lifetimes get shorter? We’re already at 200 day certs with 100 then 47 day certificates coming soon. A certificate you used to touch once every year now needs replacing up to twelve times a year. Doing this by hand is out of the question, no one has the time. Even if they did, the frequent updates is just asking for mistakes. Luckily, this can be automated using the SonicOS API.
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cloudzero

Don't 'control' your AI spend. Understand it and be intentional.

Jul 1, 2026 By David Aponovich In CloudZero
There’s a good interview making the rounds. BizTech sat down with IBM’s James Stevenson to talk about how financial institutions can get a handle on cloud and AI costs. The advice is solid: get visibility, kill idle resources, tighten governance, tag everything. And pull finance and engineering into the same room. I don’t disagree with it. But I read the whole piece and noticed where the gravity pulls: control costs, reduce waste, bring down spend. The headline says it (‘Q&A.
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cloudzero

Shipped: Turn your Bifrost gateway into an AI spend meter

Jul 1, 2026 By Thomas Evans In CloudZero
If you route model traffic through Bifrost, you already have the hard part: one place every AI call passes through, where the model, the tokens, and the cost are visible on the way past. It’s the cheapest spot in your stack to measure AI spend. What’s missing is everything downstream – today that usage only becomes “spend” weeks later, when the provider invoice lands as a lump sum you can’t break apart.
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AI Tool Sprawl Is Killing Enterprise ROI | Why Orchestration Matters More Than AI Features

Jul 1, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Enterprise AI adoption is accelerating, but are organizations actually solving business problems or just adding more tools? In this episode of Agents of IT, Fran Fernandez (Chief Product Officer at Resolve) and Zach Austin (Director of Product Marketing) explore one of the biggest challenges facing enterprise IT in 2026: AI tool sprawl. They discuss why many organizations struggle to demonstrate ROI from AI investments, how disconnected AI assistants create operational complexity, and why orchestration, automation, and context have become the real differentiators for enterprise AI success.
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The most dangerous window is before threat intel knows about it

Jul 1, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
When a malicious package is first published, threat intelligence sources haven't flagged it yet – and every team pulling from a public registry is exposed during that entire window. The fix isn't faster scanning; it's a policy that holds new packages for a defined cooldown period before they're eligible to pull. By the time the window closes, the threat intelligence has caught up. Teams pulling direct from npm or PyPI have no equivalent enforcement layer – which is exactly how attacks like Shai-Hulud got in.
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Harness Agents

Jul 1, 2026 By Harness In Harness
Today, we're launching Autonomous Worker Agents, AI agents that run as governed pipeline steps inside Harness. They inherit OPA policies, RBAC, audit trails, and scoped credentials from the first run. And because they live inside your Harness pipelines, they reason using the Harness Knowledge Graph: your services, deployments, incidents, and policies.
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AI Agents Write Broken Code 49% of the Time #speedscale #AI #Coding #Tech #DevOps

Jul 1, 2026 By Speedscale In Speedscale
AI agents write broken code nearly 50% of the time. By adding a traffic-based deterministic evaluation, Speedscale boosted unsupervised bug-fixing quality from 51% to 77% in just 5 minutes. This helped slash token costs and eliminate rework without human intervention. Learn more: speedscale.com.
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atlassian

Fix flaky tests with AI, and track future test work in Jira

Jul 1, 2026 By Rajkumar Singh In Atlassian
In January we launched Tests in Bitbucket Pipelines – a single place to track, organize, and understand your test health over time. In April we added automatic flaky test detection so unreliable tests get flagged before they slow your team down. But spotting a problem is only half the battle. Day to day, your team still needs to act on a test – track it as work, clean it up, or route it to the right person.
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kosli

How Norsk Tipping uses feature flags to govern their deployments

Jul 1, 2026 By Bruce Johnston In Kosli
Norsk Tipping is Norway’s state-owned gaming operator, running 2,500 to 3,000 production releases a year across iOS, Android, web and backend systems. Like every regulated organisation at scale, the platform team has to hold two things in tension: maintain strict deployment controls that stand up to audit, and keep the path to production open so that 100 engineers can ship safely.
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tidal

Managing DHCP Across Distributed Networks

Jul 1, 2026 By Amber Weaver In Tidal
Managing DHCP across distributed networks gets messy fast. Lease activity changes constantly. Naming conventions drift. Infrastructure changes happen independently across locations. Before long, your team no longer has a complete view of what’s happening across the network. What started as a straightforward service becomes a records problem with real operational consequences.
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LogicMonitor and Edwin AI: Autonomous IT for Hybrid IT Environments

Jul 1, 2026 By LogicMonitor, Inc. In LogicMonitor
Autonomous IT starts now with LogicMonitor and Edwin AI, built to help IT teams monitor complex hybrid IT environments, discover root cause faster, reduce downtime, and prevent incidents before they impact revenue or brand reputation. See how LogicMonitor brings AI-powered IT operations, observability, and incident prevention together for modern infrastructure teams.
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civo

Sovereign cloud for financial services: Meeting FCA and PRA requirements with UK infrastructure

Jul 1, 2026 By Civo Team In Civo
Financial services in the UK operates under one of the most demanding regulatory frameworks in the world. The FCA and PRA between them set expectations for operational resilience, outsourcing, data governance, and concentration risk that shape every infrastructure decision a regulated firm makes. Cloud adoption in the sector has happened, but it's happened under regulatory scrutiny that's grown steadily more pointed over the last several years.
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Monitor DigitalOcean in Grafana with MetricFire

Jul 1, 2026 By MetricFire In MetricFire
Monitoring your DigitalOcean infrastructure just got easier. MetricFire now integrates natively with DigitalOcean, so you can connect your account and start streaming metrics from Droplets, Load Balancers, Managed Databases, and more directly into Grafana. No agents. No setup overhead. No dashboard stitching. Get full visibility into your DigitalOcean infrastructure from one dashboard, live in minutes.
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