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AI agents are becoming part of everyday engineering workflows, helping teams write code, troubleshoot issues, and automate tasks. But to be truly useful in production, these agents need access to more than code. They also need observability data and context to understand what's happening across your systems, investigate problems, and help you take action.

If ECS works for your team, no single limit forces you off it. Growing teams still hit a few hard ECS and Fargate quotas that AWS won't raise, starting with 100 target groups per load balancer for preview environments. Here are the limits, the numbers, and how to add EKS for previews without moving production. Guillaume is a Staff Solutions Architect at Qovery. He helps customers troubleshoot production infrastructure and writes about Kubernetes operations, AI agents, and reliable cloud platforms.

Most IT teams do not have the luxury of separating network operations and security professionals into different groups. The same teams need to investigate a slow application and examine unusual traffic patterns or security issues. The latest Progress WhatsUp Gold NPM and Progress WhatsUp Gold NDR releases include new functionality that directly addresses this reality. Both WhatsUp Gold NPM and WhatsUp Gold NDR have been updated to shorten the time between discovering an issue and understanding it.

Top tips is a weekly column where we highlight what's trending in the tech world and list practical ways to explore these trends. This week, we're clearing out the one notification nobody wants to see: storage full. You’re about to capture the perfect moment and a message pops up: Storage full. The same sentiment applies to a fridge:Nobody means to overstuff it, but a little goes in every day at a faster rate than items come out, until a lemon ends up balanced on the edge of a shelf.

Symfony 8.1.10 is a maintenance release, but it carries a security fix in the Mime component, and Mime reaches further than the Symfony apps you’d expect. If you generate email anywhere in a PHP stack, this one is worth a look.

What is Security as a Service (SECaaS)? Learn how cloud-based security works, the different types of SECaaS, its benefits, and how it protects modern networks.

OpenNMS alarms now reach ilert through a dedicated plugin that runs inside OpenNMS. Network and infrastructure teams get a direct path from an alarm on a device, interface, or service to the phone of the engineer on call. The ilert alert then follows the alarm: accepted when it is acknowledged, resolved when it clears.