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IT Automation: What It Is and How to Get Started

Key Takeaways IT teams are supporting more users, systems, alerts, and services without a matching increase in headcount. Employees also expect immediate support, while businesses want critical services to remain available around the clock. Manual handoffs cannot reliably meet both demands. This guide explains what IT automation includes, how its approaches differ, and how to choose a practical starting point. It also links to deeper resources for each major category.

DevOps Cost of Ignoring Bad Bots on Your Infrastructure

A traffic spike used to mean good news. Now, it's just as likely to mean a scraper found your pricing page or a credential-stuffing script started hammering your login endpoint at 3 a.m. Most teams treat this as a security problem and hand it off accordingly. That's a mistake, because by the time it reaches security, it has already cost engineering time, compute budget, and a fair amount of sleep.

dbForge Studio for SQL Server: AI-Powered IDE for the Full Database Lifecycle

SQL Server development involves much more than writing and executing queries. There are other core aspects such as database design, debugging, data management, performance analysis, administration, deployment, and workflow automation. In this video, you will see how dbForge Studio for SQL Server lets you manage the entire database lifecycle from a single AI-powered SQL Server IDE. Instead of switching between separate tools for SQL coding, database design, test data generation, comparison, reporting, and administration, you can use one application for everything.

From Plan to Main: Why GitKraken Is The Code Flow Company

Code Flow is what we call the shift happening across every engineering team right now: AI can generate code faster than ever, but that doesn't mean it ships any faster. In this clip from our Code Flow Live stream, our team unpack why adding AI coding agents to a team is a lot like adding lanes to a highway that's already jammed. More lanes, more cars, same traffic.

Every AI Agent You Add Leaves Something Behind to Clean Up

Adding a second AI agent to a project feels like doubling your output. In practice, it usually means doubling your bookkeeping too. Every agent needs its own worktree so it can work without touching the branch someone else, human or otherwise, is using. Multiply that by five agents across three repos, and the isolation that made parallel work possible starts generating its own kind of work: which worktree goes with which branch, which ones are stale, which upstream nobody remembers creating.

How to Manage AI Infrastructure in Your Traditional Enterprise Data Center

Managing AI infrastructure in a traditional enterprise data center comes down to validating that sufficient capacity exists before hardware arrives, then maintaining accurate infrastructure data to support planning, deployment, troubleshooting, and ongoing operations. This is because AI has changed what enterprise data centers were built to handle.

Peer Review: CircleCI's CEO & CTO on Why They're Both Building Again

Jim Rose and Rob Zuber have been working together since 2011. By now they can plan a quarter with hand signals. But this episode of Peer Review isn't about how well they know each other. It's about what they're still figuring out. CircleCI's CEO and CTO sit down to talk about what they've always believed about software delivery (it's about outcomes, not craft), how the pace of change has forced them back into the trenches of actually building, and what it means to lead a technical organization when the state of the art is shifting faster than any pitch deck can keep up with.

Peer Review: CircleCI's CRO & CLO on the Skill of Learning Fast

Seven years of institutional knowledge meets a fresh outside perspective in this episode of Peer Review. June Ko is CircleCI's Chief Legal Officer. Judson Griffin is the Chief Revenue Officer. They cover what tenure without complacency actually looks like, why boomerang hires keep happening across every region and role, and what it means to be in the middle of a market moment most people won't recognize until it's already passed. Judson's advice: get in front of the rocket and hold on. June's take: being uncomfortable is the new normal, so you might as well get good at it.

Peer Review: CircleCI's CFO & CMO on What Comes After AI Code Generation

Last year was the year of AI code generation. This year is everything that comes after: validation, quality, and making sure what gets built actually ships. Nobody's better positioned to talk about that than CircleCI, and in this episode of Peer Review, CFO Blake Buisson and CMO Chitra Balasubramanian dig into what that moment means for the company and the people building it.