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Why the U.S. Locked Down Fable and Mythos: AI, National Security, and the Workforce Squeeze

The U.S. just barred foreign nationals from accessing two advanced AI models — Fable and Mythos — citing national security. Around the same time, the Five Eyes intelligence alliance warned that AI-enabled cyberattacks are "months, not years" away. In Season 5 of ShipTalk, host Adam and co-host Martin dig into whether that warning is already overdue — and what it means for the people actually defending software.

What Is Synthetic Monitoring and Why Does It Matter?

A website can look healthy on your dashboard and still fail when customers try to use it. So how do you catch problems before anyone notices them? In this video, you'll learn what synthetic monitoring is, how it works, and why IT teams use it to detect website and application issues before they impact real users. Discover how automated user journeys help you monitor availability, performance, and critical business transactions 24/7.

MySQL Query Optimization With dbForge Query Profiler

Learn how to optimize SQL queries in MySQL with Query Profiler in dbForge Studio for MySQL. This video shows how to monitor query execution plans , track resource consumption, identify performance bottlenecks , and validate query optimization results. Query Profiler helps developers, DBAs, and database engineers analyze query execution, find slow operations , review session statistics, compare profiling results, and improve MySQL database performance .

Sentry Seer, MCP, & Warp Agents: Fixing Sentry Issues Outside of Sentry

This video walks through connecting Sentry's MCP server to a Warp Agent, so instead of an agent starting from a raw error, it starts from Seer's actual root cause diagnosis: the error, the surrounding code, and recent commits. From there, the Warp Agent takes that diagnosis, implements the fix directly in the codebase, and opens a PR, all without leaving Warp.

AWS, GCP, Azure - We Pick The Best of Every Cloud

When your platform is tied to a single cloud, every move turns into a migration. This team decided it didn't have to be. In this clip, a Control Plane customer explains how separating their platform from the cloud provider underneath changed the math on infrastructure. Instead of being locked to one vendor, they can pick the best services from each cloud and move workloads to AWS without jumping through hoops. The kicker: a migration whose sheer scale would have "scared them off" becomes a non-event once your platform isn't welded to a single provider. Control Plane is an AI-native virtual cloud.

IT on the 4th of July? Not with AI. | Zero Ticket Minute

What if your IT team could enjoy the Fourth of July without getting interrupted by password resets, VPN issues, and routine service requests? In this week's Zero Ticket Minute, see how agentic AI and automation help eliminate repetitive tickets so IT teams can enjoy the holiday while work gets done.