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Shai-Hulud style attacks need more than scanning

Pre-install scripts mean a malicious package can compromise a developer's laptop the moment it's pulled – no build, no deploy, no install required. That breaks the old model where scanning catches a bad package after the fact, when it's already too late. The fix is active policy enforcement at the point of pull, using signals like package age, signed provenance, and maintainer trust to filter out malicious packages before they ever land.

IPoDWDM Router Solutions: A Modern Approach to Network Architecture

The relentless growth of data traffic, driven by cloud services, high-speed residential broadband, 5G mobility, and enterprise digitalization, places enormous pressure on network infrastructure. Service providers and large enterprises must scale capacity while simultaneously controlling costs and reducing operational complexity. In this environment, traditional network architectures are reaching their breaking point, creating an urgent need for a more efficient and integrated approach to transport.

Why features pass QA and still break in production

Database migrations are where the mock data problem shows up most clearly. A migration that adds an index to a table with 500 rows in the development database runs in milliseconds and passes every test. The same migration against a production table with 8 million rows locks the table for 90 seconds during peak traffic. Nobody saw it coming because nobody tested it against 8 million rows. This isn't an edge case.

AI writes code in seconds, but delivery still takes days

The pitch for AI coding was speed. Claude Code, Copilot, Cursor, whatever you’re running, they all generate business logic faster than you can review it. That part is real. But look at what happens after the code gets written and the numbers get ugly. CircleCI’s 2026 State of Software Delivery Report found AI drove a 59% increase in average throughput.

PostgreSQL 19 Release: New Features, Release Date, and Upgrade Notes

With PostgreSQL 19 on the horizon, query planning could get smarter thanks to new query tools and faster maintenance. The release is still a few months away, but Beta 1 already shows where PostgreSQL is headed. Released on June 4, 2026, PostgreSQL 19 Beta 1 previews most of what’s planned for the final release.

Drastic RAMifications Webinar | HPE x Pulsant

Is your infrastructure strategy ready for the global memory shortage? The global RAM and storage market is experiencing unprecedented disruption, driven by soaring AI demand, constrained manufacturing capacity and increasing geopolitical pressures. But what does this mean for UK organisations planning their technology investments? In this webinar, Pulsant's Ian Butler is joined by Paul Atkins, VP of Data Solutions at HPE, and Steve Spittal, Technology Director at Pulsant, to discuss how businesses can navigate the ongoing memory shortage and build resilient infrastructure strategies.

Introducing Controls in Kosli

Defining a control in a policy document is easy. Proving that every build was evaluated against it - and that nothing non-compliant ever reached production - is the hard part. Kosli's new Controls feature closes that gap. Every control is defined in Kosli, every build is evaluated against it, and deployments are gated automatically when the evidence isn't there. That means: Every control decision is recorded as evidence, build by build Coverage shows exactly where a control is enforced across your environments.

We rebuilt our Slack app

We are launching a new version of our Slack app for Spike. New architecture, a proper incident workflow you can run end to end without leaving Slack, and our first real go at bringing AI into the mix. We didn’t get here in a straight line though. This is the story of why we rebuilt our Slack app from the ground up, how we did it, and what we ran into along the way.