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Today, organizations looking to build AI products and services using large language models (LLMs), agentic AI, and generative AI often start by investing in artificial intelligence as a service (AIaaS), also known as cloud AI. AIaaS provides a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective way for businesses of all sizes to access advanced AI technologies without the need for extensive in-house expertise or infrastructure.

An email server gets blacklisted when it's identified as a potential source of spam, malware, or suspicious activity. Blacklists use automated systems and user reports to flag servers that violate mailing or security standards. Once listed, legitimate messages may bounce, land in spam folders, or never reach recipients at all. Understanding why this happens is essential to prevent future listings and protect the sender's reputation.

AI in networking isn’t theoretical anymore. It’s here, reshaping how we operate. At the ONUG AI Networking Summit, we saw firsthand how agent systems are moving from hype to hands-on reality, from secure automation to data-driven root cause analysis. The future of NetOps isn’t dashboards and tickets — it’s intelligent agents, observability, and measurable business outcomes.

In part one of this series, we learned how to implement batch updates and advanced inserts in Ecto to dramatically improve database performance. But implementing these optimizations is only the first step. Ensuring they continue to work effectively in production requires professional monitoring and observability. This guide will show you how to use AppSignal for Elixir to monitor your Ecto application's performance when dealing with batch data operations.

As a technology leader at Elastic, my team is responsible for building AI experiences on a centralized architecture to enable our sales and customer support teams to scale their impact and take advantage of AI faster.

Recently, crowdfunding giant GoFundMe made headlines after (among other things) automatically generating some 1.4 million donation pages for U.S. 501(c)(3) nonprofit organisations. These pages were created without prior consent, using publicly available IRS data and partner-feeds. According to reports, many nonprofits discovered these pages only when alerted by a donor or curious patron; they had no advance knowledge and had to manually un-publish or “claim” the page.

Java is one of the most widely used platforms for supporting web applications. According to RedMonk and TIOBE rankings, Java has consistently remained in the top 4 most popular programming languages worldwide, with millions of developers actively using it. Industry-standard application servers such as WebLogic, WebSphere, Tomcat, and JBoss all run on Java and power a large share of enterprise workloads and Java web applications.

Restorepoint earned recognition for solving one of the hardest and most important challenges in network operations: keeping every device configuration backed up, verified, and ready to recover. It gave teams confidence that their infrastructure was consistent, compliant, and protected from the smallest misstep. ScienceLogic acquired Restorepoint in 2021 to build on that strength and extend it.