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Why 2025 Changed Everything for DevOps and What Puppet Built to Meet It

In 2025, DevOps teams faced a pivotal moment. The era of treating security as an afterthought was over. Practically overnight, airtight protection became a non-negotiable requirement across every layer of the technology stack, whether on prem, in the cloud, or at the network’s edge. For many teams, this wasn’t just a technical hurdle; it was a daily source of stress.

Easiest Way to Connect InfluxDB to a Grafana Data Source

InfluxDB is a widely used time-series database designed for storing and querying metrics, events, and telemetry data. It’s commonly used for infrastructure monitoring, application instrumentation, and IoT-style workloads where time-based data is central. In many environments, InfluxDB already exists as part of the monitoring or data collection pipeline, and the primary need is simply to visualize that data effectively.

Implement dbt data quality checks with dbt-expectations

dbt is one of the most popular solutions for data transformations and modeling. Many commercial data pipelines rely on dozens, or even hundreds, of individual dbt jobs. Data engineers, data platform engineers, and analytics engineers who own these pipelines need to maintain a testing framework to prevent mistakes in data processing that can compromise analysis.

Finetuning Gemma 3 on private data with Unsloth and CircleCI

Fine-tuning Large Language Models (LLMs) on private, domain-specific data can unlock significant value for your specific use case. When done correctly, you can create AI apps that understand your organization’s unique context. These apps can speak your brand’s voice and deliver remarkably accurate results that general models cannot match. However, finetuning is not always the right solution. Many teams rush into this complex technique without exploring simpler alternatives first.

Agentic AI Essentials: Your Guide to the Future of Automation

To mark the launch, we’re publishing Agentic AI Essentials, a four-part series to help organizations navigate the reality of agentic AI adoption. Across the series, we’ll look at the questions that matter most: what’s real versus hype, how to avoid adoption pitfalls, how to measure ROI, and how roles will evolve once agents are onboarded. Here’s a sneak peek at what’s in store.

Building Operational Resilience for the Year Ahead with Teneo's Digital Employee Experience (DEX)

As we step into a new year, one truth stands firm in financial services: resilience isn’t optional – it’s expected. Markets fluctuate, regulations evolve, and technology accelerates. Amid this complexity, IT leaders carry the responsibility of ensuring that operations don’t just survive disruption, they thrive through it.

7 Insider Tips for Choosing Dumpster Software: Why the Owner's Biography Is the Most Important Feature You'll Ever Buy

When you are shopping for software to run your dumpster rental business, you are usually looking at a checklist of features. Does it have a map? Can it send invoices? Is there a mobile app? These are all valid questions, but they miss the most critical factor of all: Who built it?

Top 5 Enterprise Mentoring Software Platforms for Workforce Development

Mentoring software transforms how companies tackle employee retention challenges. Companies that run formal mentoring programs retain 50% more employees. These numbers show real returns on investment and help build stronger succession plans for global enterprises. The workplace needs this now more than ever. Last year's data shows that only 33% of employees felt engaged at work. Mentoring platforms provide a solution through well-laid-out development opportunities that keep employees motivated and committed.

8 Benefits of Integrating an Aptitude Test for Recruitment in the Hiring Process

When CVs keep coming in, interviews follow one after another, and each candidate seems sure they're the perfect match. Yet beneath polished profiles and well-prepared answers, it's still difficult to know who can think clearly under pressure, learn fast, or solve real problems on the job. Modern recruitment demands more than instinct or surface-level impressions. It requires tools that reveal how candidates process information, adapt to new challenges, and behave in workplace scenarios.

How to Choose CMMS Software: Key Considerations

Maintenance teams do not fail because they lack effort. They fail because information gets lost between shifts, urgent work crowds out planned work, and parts disappear at the exact wrong moment. Choosing CMMS software can fix those gaps, but only if the system fits how your plant, property portfolio, or service operation actually runs.