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Formed in 2021, the Nastel Technologies Advisory Board is made up of business and IT leaders from a wide variety of sectors, across the world. These enterprise leaders and innovators understand the incredibly important role of planning for, and the management of, the integration infrastructure (i2) layer (including messaging middleware, APIs, and much more) in their enterprises to enable meeting IT and larger corporate goals in 2022.

Aiven for OpenSearch was chosen by the UK Government to run search for its expansive GOV.UK Platform as a Service.

We are happy to announce today that we have launched further improvements to the Logit.io platform’s alerting and monitoring features. This latest release of the Logit.io platform offers our users an improved workflow to assist with their productivity on the platform as well as a more updated intuitive user interface (UI).

You’ve heard about artificial intelligence everywhere. It’s been represented and discussed in popular media like films and television, as well as in extensive and potentially fearmongering think-pieces saying that its sentience could spell the end of our times. But one thing is for certain: artificial intelligence is very real and — despite what certain sci-fi films might tell you — a really helpful tool for us humans.

Have you ever wondered what all the fuss is about SAP and its audit process? We'll take a look at the SAP audit process and explain what happens when auditors check your SAP system.

PitchIT is a competition for MSP innovators. The program is designed to showcase potential offerings that could be built or integrated into the ConnectWise platforms. It’s a 16-week accelerator program where AlertOps and the other participants will go through a rigorous business assessment, gain coaching from industry experts, earn placement on the ConnectWise marketplace, engage in co-marketing and more.

In June, we hosted our online meetup with ContainIQ surrounding k8s monitoring and observability. You can catch up on the discussion between Matthew Lenhard (Co-founder & CTO of ContainIQ) and Kai Hoffman (Developer Advocate at Civo) here if you missed it. Meanwhile, Kamesh Sampath from our Developer Advocate demo program explains how Civo’s speed and developer experience is great to work with in our latest Civo Shorts.

We are happy to announce that one of the top voted features for Bitbucket Pipelines, Docker BuildKit will be available next week. You can now build Docker images with the BuildKit utility. With BuildKit you can take advantage of the various features it provides like.

When I speak at conferences, I often fall back to the fact that just a couple of decades ago we’d observe production by kicking the server. This is obviously no longer practical. We can’t see our production. It’s an amorphous cloud that we can’t touch or feel. A power that we read about but don’t fully grasp. In this case, we have physical evidence that the cloud is there. A part of this major shift in our industry is a change to our fundamental roles as engineers.