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The Future of Cloud Data & AI/ML with Google's Engineering Lead

Explore the future of AI and data analytics with Google Engineering Lead Samarth Shah. From Lakehouse architectures to Tiny Models at the edge, Samarth breaks down the key trends shaping cloud-native analytics. Gain insights into augmented analytics, data governance, and real-time intelligence in this forward-looking session from Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025.

Investigating External API Slowdowns

Oftentimes we need to depend on external APIs to achieve the functionality your app offers. And as we all know, dependencies = points of failure. You don’t own what you don’t control. That’s why it’s super important to keep an eye on them. In this video we’re going to see how we can use Sentry to monitor third party APIs to figure out if they’re causing slowdowns in our own app.

Grafana Campfire - Data Visualization Tips and Best Practices (Grafana Community Call- April 2025)

Creating dashboards in Grafana gives you some very good built-in features to manipulate your data by using transformations, variables, filtering, overriding,, annotations for your data and with addition of Community plugins (data sources, panels and apps) increases the user experience to a whole next level. Still, many users do not either know about these features or do not use it correctly and why is the reason?

Why Observability is Getting Expensive and OpenTelemetry is Becoming More Popular | Grafana Labs

Grafana Labs' Jen Villa shares the latest insights into how organizations are rethinking their observability strategies — with cost now taking center stage. This video covers: Chapters: Grafana Cloud is the easiest way to get started with Grafana dashboards, metrics, logs, and traces. Our forever-free tier includes access to 10k metrics, 50GB logs, 50GB traces and more. We also have plans for every use case.

The Cloud Has Made Us Reckless! It's Time to Reclaim Control

Tim Banks takes the stage at Civo Navigate San Francisco 2025 to explore the unintended consequences of cloud adoption. From runaway AWS bills to vendor lock-in and lost operational skills, Tim offers a thought-provoking look at how convenience in the cloud has come at a cost to resilience, privacy, and sustainability.

Optimizing IoT and edge with Ubuntu: secure, simplify, scale

From IoT to edge computing, Ubuntu helps you secure, simplify, and scale device deployments with confidence. In this session, Gabriel Aguiar Noury (Product Manager) and Tabish Khan (Sales Director IoT) from Canonical explore how Ubuntu streamlines the deployment, management, and maintenance of embedded systems, without compromising on reliability or security. Whether you’re building next-gen hardware or optimizing existing infrastructure, this talk offers practical insights and tools to help you succeed.

Why are AI Agents Superior to LLM #speedscale #apitesting #mocks #ai #agents #llm #developers

Matt LeRay explains the key difference: AI agents can perform multi-step processes to solve complex software tasks, unlike simple LLMs that mainly answer questions. Discover how agents go beyond chat to: What are your thoughts on AI agents in software development? Let us know in the comments below!

The State of Routing Security: Progress, Challenges, and Measurement

Kentik's Director of Internet Analysis, Doug Madory, explores the current landscape of BGP routing security. He discusses key progress made in Route Origin Validation (ROV), common pitfalls like AS-SET nesting, and ongoing challenges faced by the networking industry. With real-world examples and detailed traffic analysis from Kentik's extensive NetFlow data, Doug shares his insights and recommendations for NetOps professionals who want to improve their routing security practices. Watch this webinar replay to learn the latest methods for securing the global internet.