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Monitor Apple Silicon GPU on macOS with macmon + Hosted Graphite

Your Mac’s GPU is a massively parallel processor that handles anything from animating the UI to heavy lifting in video editors, 3D tools, games, and on-device machine learning models. Think Final Cut Pro exports, Blender renders, Stable Diffusion, WebGPU demos, or shader builds in Xcode - which are all tasks that require heavy GPU.

Rethink Cloud Finance: From Cost Control To Strategic Growth

Cloud costs keep rising, and most companies are struggling to contain it. That’s where today’s finance teams can step up their game, not only as a professional opportunity but as a leading protagonist on the cloud cost optimization stage. A bit of background first: Global public cloud spending is projected by Gartner to exceed $720 billion in 2025. That’s up from nearly $600 billion in 2024. And a lot of that is sheer, unmitigated waste.

Claude Pricing: A 2025 Guide To Anthropic AI Costs

When OpenAI surged into the spotlight with ChatGPT, not everyone inside the company agreed on the path forward. In 2021, a group of senior researchers broke away. They had concerns about safety, transparency, and the direction of AI development. They went on to found Anthropic. And their answer to ChatGPT was Claude. Anthropic’s mission is for openness now. Yet, Claude’s pricing can feel as mysterious as the model weights behind the scenes.

5 DevOps Team Structures (Plus Actionable Strategies for Automation, Monitoring & Culture Change)

An effective DevOps team is about creating the right structure, culture, and processes that enable collaboration across traditionally siloed departments. The right DevOps team structure can dramatically improve software delivery speed, reliability, and overall customer satisfaction. But what exactly makes a great DevOps team? And how can you build one that works for your organization?

5 Signs Your Network Operations Need an Upgrade

Network operations form the foundation of how businesses function in today's connected world. Every service, tool, and application depends on the network working smoothly. When network operations fall behind, the problems show up quickly. Employees face disruptions, customers lose patience, and the business as a whole struggles to keep up with modern demands. The challenge is that many teams keep patching small issues without realizing the system itself has outgrown its usefulness.

Open Source Data Lakehouse Architecture with Spark and Kyuubi: Engineering Deep Dive

Subscribe. Fuel your curiosity. This webinar gives a detailed exploration of an open source data lakehouse architecture and how we implement it at Canonical. Watch to discover how Spark’s scalable processing engine and Kyuubi’s user-friendly SQL gateway enable efficient, secure, and high-performance analytics on unified data sets. Let’s dig deeper into how this combination simplifies big data storage, interactive analytics, and ETL – all through a single, streamlined open source lakehouse architecture.

Design Concept: User-Created AI Agents with External Tool Support

Here's an early look at user-created AI agents with external tool support in Mattermost — designed to integrate AI into daily workflows while maintaining governance and security. We’d love your feedback on this design. Contact the Fast Futures team at fastfutures@mattermost.com.

OpenTelemetry API vs SDK: Understanding the Architecture

When you're instrumenting applications with OpenTelemetry, you'll encounter two core components: the API and the SDK. The API defines what telemetry data looks like and how it is created, while the SDK handles how that data is processed and exported. Understanding this split helps you build more maintainable observability and avoid tight coupling between your business logic and telemetry infrastructure.