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90% AI Adoption. Still Failing. DORA Explains Why.

AI adoption is nearly universal. So why are most teams still struggling? In this session from GitKon, Nathen Harvey, head of DORA at Google Cloud, shares findings from the 2025 DORA State of AI-Assisted Software Development report, drawing on data from nearly 5,000 developers worldwide. The answer isn't more AI. It's what surrounds it.

npm axios attack - What happened and how to protect your supply chain

100M+ weekly downloads. One compromised maintainer account. A remote access trojan in two active release branches. This is a 30-minute breakdown of the Axios npm supply chain attack – how it happened, why it was hard to detect, and what any engineering team can do right now to reduce exposure. Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, is joined by Jenn Gile, co-founder of Open Source Malware, a community-driven threat intelligence platform focused on malicious open source packages.

Konstruct product updates: Hosted control planes and multi-cloud

March signified a very important period for the Konstruct team, where we were able to focus on something we’ve heard consistently from teams: reduce the time to value without compromising control. In the previous post, we walked through how Konstruct 0.1–0.3 established the core platform model, introduced templates, and expanded GitOps into something that can represent both infrastructure and applications. With 0.4, we’re taking a more opinionated step forward.

Free vs Commercial ORM Tools: Best Picks Compared

When you’re building.NET applications, the choice between free ORM tools and commercial ones can make or break your project’s future. It’s not about one side winning, both have standout strengths. Free tools like Entity Framework Core or Dapper offer flexibility without the price tag. However, as projects grow, teams need commercial tools to deal with larger schemas, more complex mappings, and multiple developers working on the same data layer.

Bridging the Gap: Keeping On-Premises SQL Server Competitive in a Cloud-First World

Short Summary: Many companies evaluate cloud platforms when they reach scalability limits on existing infrastructure, with migration decisions typically driven by a broader mix of factors: cost optimization, availability, security, and access to managed services. However, despite this shift, a lot of teams still run SQL Server on their own servers. Keeping these systems running well requires good monitoring, performance tuning, and regular maintenance.

Why Are Leading Data Center Managers Expanding into IDF Closets?

A growing number of data center managers are extending their DCIM deployments beyond the data center to cover remote IDF closets, telecom rooms, and other distributed sites. Organizations like the World Bank and Erie Insurance have already made the move, and the results include better asset visibility across the enterprise, more informed capacity planning, significant cost savings, and better collaboration across teams.

Your Cloud Architecture Has a Personality - Mastering Cloud Cost Profiles & FinOps

Most teams treat cloud cost like something to clean up later. In reality, it is already baked into how your system behaves. Every workload has a personality. Some spike with concurrency. Some quietly run all day and never shut off. Some look efficient until scale hits and then costs accelerate. And some charge you every time they run, every query, every scan, every execution. This episode is about recognizing those patterns early. Once you understand how your architecture behaves under load and over time, you stop reacting to cost and start shaping it.

AI Is an Amplifier, Not a Shortcut

There’s a version of the AI story that engineering leaders want to hear. It goes like this: adopt AI coding tools, watch output multiply, ship faster, do more with less. Clean. Simple. Boardroom-ready. The data tells a different story. Not a worse one. Just a more honest one. We recently analyzed 2,172 developer-weeks of real coding activity across teams using GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Claude Code. The headline numbers are striking: power users show 4-14x higher activity than non-users.

Cost Optimization vs. Value Optimization: Shifting the Mindset

In this session, we explore how organizations can move beyond basic cloud cost reporting to truly understand the business value of their IT investments. Using the T2Bv (Technology-to-Business Value) meta-framework alongside FinOps practices, we explain how to connect IT resources, including Azure environments, to measurable business outcomes.