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The data context gap: why agents fail on fragmented stacks

Apr 23, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun

Key takeaway: AI agents and RAG pipelines only reach production-grade accuracy when they are developed against byte-level clones of real production data. Without environment parity, the "repro gap" leads to inevitable AI failure.

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Professional Data Connectivity: Top Airtable ODBC Drivers for 2026

Apr 23, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

For businesses that need to bridge the gap between Airtable's cloud-based flexibility and the analytical power of tools like SQL Server, Power BI, or Excel, a professional ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) driver is a fundamental requirement. Selecting a high-performance driver ensures that your Airtable "bases" are treated like a traditional relational database, providing a structured SQL layer over your CRM and project data.

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Anything but that cloud

Apr 22, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun

"Anything but that cloud." I asked why. "Our biggest customer is a giant retailer," he said. "That hyperscaler's parent company is the retailer's biggest competitor. So our customer refuses to do business with anyone who uses that cloud. We use that cloud, we lose our biggest customer. Full stop." That was the entire conversation about cloud choice. It wasn't a technical preference. It wasn't a pricing optimization. It wasn't a sovereignty concern.

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Shared agent configs, monitor search, and a GDPR policy

Apr 22, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit

A few practical improvements this week, mostly driven by what we’re learning as customers deploy CertKit into larger infrastructures.

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From Jammy to Resolute: how Ubuntu's toolchains have evolved

Apr 22, 2026 By Samir Kamerkar In Canonical

The evolution of Ubuntu’s toolchains story goes beyond just providing up-to-date GCC, LLVM, and Python. It is also about opinionated openJDK variants, task-focused devpacks, FIPS compliant toolchains, and snaps, like the new.NET snap and Snapcraft plugin. These are enhancements that collapse half a day of setup into a single command or two, demonstrating what a frictionless developer experience means in practice for framework and application developers on Ubuntu.

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Terminal dependencies for CircleCI workflows: Always run what matters

Apr 22, 2026 By Brice Nkengsa In CircleCI

When a job fails, gets canceled, or never runs, the work that still needs to happen afterward (cleanup, notifications, teardown) has no clean way to trigger. There is no easy way to express “run this no matter what” in your pipeline config without duplicating jobs or adding fragile workaround branches. Terminal jobs change that.

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Android Remote Management: The Future of Business Device Management

Apr 22, 2026 By AirDroidOfficial In AirDroid

One Android device going offline in your store or warehouse can throw off your whole day. In this video, we'll show you how to manage all your Android devices remotely from a single dashboard, without running around on-site. You'll learn how remote monitoring tracks device health in real time, from battery levels to network status. We'll also walk through remote troubleshooting, app deployment, and how to enforce security policies across your fleet. Then we'll look at how teams in retail, logistics, and healthcare use these tools to keep operations running smoothly.

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AI SRE Summit 2026 Brings Together Engineering Leaders From AWS, Salesforce, Man Group, Smarsh, Honeycomb and More

Apr 22, 2026 By Komodor In Komodor

Virtual event will explore what it takes to use AI in production SRE, from incident response and observability to platform design, cost control and self-healing operations TEL AVIV and SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2026 — Komodor, the autonomous AI SRE company, today announced it will host AI SRE Summit 2026, a free live virtual event on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, bringing together site reliability, platform engineering and cloud-native leaders to discuss how AI is changing production operations, and where i

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Resolve's Agents of IT podcast - Ep. 17 - Agentic Workflows to Performance Intelligence

Apr 22, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve

In this episode of Agents of IT, Ari Stowe sits down with Geoff McQueen, four-time founder and CEO of Ascendius, to unpack what it takes to navigate AI-driven disruption. Geoff shares a clear framework for where automation is headed, from individual AI use to agent-driven workflows to AI embedded across the business. Most organizations are still early. The real opportunity is in making AI work at the business level.

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Introducing on-demand Pipelines: run pipelines via API

Apr 22, 2026 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian

Your CI/CD pipeline doesn’t have to live in a YAML file anymore. With on-demand pipelines, you can generate pipeline definitions programmatically, from scripts, services, or automation tools – and execute them instantly via the Pipelines API. No commit. No pull request. No static configuration to modify. Just build the YAML your situation demands and run it.

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