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Aiven for Valkey Dev Tier is Live #aiven #valkey #developer

You're gonna want a cache. Aiven for Valkey's Dev Tier gets you 2 CPUs and 4 GB RAM on a single node, with automated backups, full monitoring (metrics + logs), and basic support included. JSON, Bloom filters, and Search come pre-enabled. AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Overview of AI Evaluation (The Context Window #05)

Can you actually trust an AI agent? In this pre-recorded episode of The Context Window, Nicole van der Hoeven sits down with Yas Ekinci, an engineer on the Grafana AI team, to talk about evals — how Grafana measures the quality and reliability of the AI it ships. They get into the difference between online and offline evals, why reviewing AI-generated code has become the real bottleneck, the "final answer problem" of plausible-but-wrong outputs, and o11y-bench, Grafana's open benchmark for observability agents. Along the way.

Help Desk or Service Desk: Which Does Your Business Need?

In this video, learn the key differences between a Help Desk and a Service Desk and why choosing the right approach can significantly impact the growth and efficiency of your IT support operations. Discover when a help desk is enough, when a service desk becomes essential, and how modern IT teams can scale support effectively. In this video, you'll learn: Contact Us sales@motadata.com Resources.

How AI is changing platform engineering

AI is changing software development fast. But what does that actually mean for platform engineering teams? In this conversation, Civo's John Dietz and M R Rishi dig into what they're seeing on the ground, the 10x effect of AI on app count, what it means for platform team workloads, the debugging skills that are quietly being lost, and whether Kubernetes itself might eventually become just another abstraction.

Turbo360 for System Integrators: Grow Your Azure Practice

If you deliver Azure integration solutions for clients, this video is for you. Fragmented tooling, unpredictable bills, and support incidents that eat into your consultancy time — these are the problems that limit how fast SI partners can scale. Turbo360 helps you solve all three, and turn each one into a business growth opportunity. In this video, Turbo360 CTO Mike Stephenson (Microsoft MVP) walks through how system integrator partners are using Turbo360 to deliver better outcomes for clients, reduce support overhead, and build managed service revenue alongside their integration practice.

Azure FinOps with AI: What's New in Turbo360 v5.2

Turbo360 v5.2 is the biggest AI update we've shipped. Every module now has AI built in - not just to surface data, but to explain it, guide you through it, and help non-experts take action without needing to call in a specialist. In this video, Mike Stephenson walks through every new feature in v5.2, from AI agents that explain cost drivers and rightsizing recommendations, to a brand new Savings Tracker that gives you a better way to prove FinOps impact to management.

Sentry 201: Integrations & Sampling That Won't Surprise You

You set up Sentry. Errors are flowing in. You'd call it instrumented. We'd call it a start. When something breaks, you should know what failed, which commit caused it, who owns it, and what the user saw — without jumping between tools or getting surprised by your bill. Most teams are closer to that than they think. This is the 201 session for teams who got Sentry firing events and stopped there.