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Slack overview video

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.

PostgreSQL 19 Release: New Features, Release Date, and Upgrade Notes

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.

AI writes code in seconds, but delivery still takes days

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.

Managing Ubuntu on bare metal at scale

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.

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

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.

Boost Is Now In Public Preview

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.

Why cloud repatriation is happening now

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.