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AI coding assistants are only as good as the context you give them

Jan 9, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
AI coding assistants have quickly become part of everyday development. Teams now rely on them to explain unfamiliar code, suggest configuration files, debug errors, and accelerate delivery across the stack. But as these tools move from experimentation into real production workflows, a consistent pattern is emerging: AI breaks down at the platform boundary.
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Harness | Docker Artifact Registry | How to Push and Pull Images

Jan 9, 2026 By Harness In Harness
This video provides a clear and practical walkthrough of the Harness Artifact Registry, demonstrating how to work with Docker images in a secure and reliable manner. You will see the complete flow of pushing images into the registry and pulling them back for builds, deployments, and platform workflows. The goal is to help developers and platform engineers understand how the registry fits into everyday delivery pipelines.
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Optimizing DCI for AI Growth: All Roads Lead to Managed Optical Fiber Networks

Jan 9, 2026 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon
The accelerating demand for artificial intelligence and cloud-based applications is fundamentally altering how organizations approach physical infrastructure. As data center construction shifts toward rural geographies in search of affordable power and real estate, the connectivity binding these facilities together has become a critical bottleneck. Network architects and CIOs are currently facing a complex decision matrix regarding Data Center Interconnect (DCI) deployment.
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cloudzero

Budget Variance In The Cloud Era: Here's How To Turn Surprises Into Business Value

Jan 9, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
In the traditional finance world, budget variance was a static comparison between actual and budgeted spend. But in the cloud era, where costs scale with usage, experimentation, and engineering decisions, variance tells a much richer story. Done right, budget variance helps you distinguish between healthy growth and margin erosion. It can signal strong feature adoption, rising customer demand, or successful launches. It can also reveal waste, inefficiencies, and weak cost controls.
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Is Kubernetes actually HARD? #speedscale #kubernetes #k8s #devops #cloudnative

Jan 9, 2026 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Thinking about learning Kubernetes in 2026? You’ll need GitOps, kubectl, and CI/CD pipelines... OR you can just use Speedscale. See how a single operator replaces a million dependencies and gives you the traffic insights you actually need to survive production.
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Kubernetes is Hard. Here is the "Easy Mode" for 2026

Jan 9, 2026 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Is Kubernetes actually hard, or are we just using the wrong tools? In 2026, the Kubernetes ecosystem has become a "dependency jungle." Between GitOps, YAML configuration, kubectl mastery, and complex CI/CD pipelines, developers are spending more time managing infrastructure than writing code. In this video, Ken breaks down the "hard parts" of K8s and introduces a more efficient workflow using Speedscale. Learn how to gain instant visibility into your cluster, pull logs without the headache, and turn real-world traffic into actionable load tests.
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Recommended Experiments for Production Resilience in Harness Chaos Engineering | Harness Blog

Jan 9, 2026 By Ashutosh Bhadauriya In Harness
This guide covers battle-tested chaos experiments for Kubernetes, AWS, Azure, and GCP to help you validate production resilience before real failures happen. Start with low blast radius experiments (pod-level) and gradually progress to higher impact scenarios (node/zone failures), always defining clear hypotheses and using probes to measure results. Building reliable distributed systems isn't just about writing good code. It's about understanding how your systems behave when things go wrong.
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Galileo

IT Observability in 2026: Lessons From the Past Year

Jan 8, 2026 By Kristy Slimmer In Galileo
As IT organizations enter 2026, many of the assumptions around monitoring and observability have already been tested. Throughout 2025, infrastructure teams made it clear that visibility alone is not enough. Alerts without context, short data retention, and fragmented tools limited teams’ ability to explain behavior, validate changes, and plan with confidence. This article looks at what emerged from those experiences and how observability expectations continue to shift.
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Running Ansible Playbooks with Puppet Playbook Runner

Jan 8, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Are you struggling to manage infrastructure scale with standalone Ansible playbooks? Discover how to consolidate your automation tools without losing your existing investment. In this demo, we explore how Puppet Edge empowers infrastructure teams to seamlessly execute Ansible Playbooks within Puppet workflows.
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Sending Custom Application Metrics to MetricFire's Hosted Graphite

Jan 8, 2026 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
In this article, we’ll show how easy it is to send custom application metrics directly to MetricFire's public carbon endpoint. We’ll build a small Flask application, emit a handful of practical metrics, and generate local traffic to demonstrate how quickly meaningful data can flow from your code to your dashboards.
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