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DNS Check now supports monitoring CAA records. A CAA record (Certification Authority Authorization record) tells public certificate authorities (CAs) which of them, if any, are allowed to issue TLS/SSL certificates for your domain. Public CAs have been required to honor these records since 2017, so CAA records act as an access control list for certificate issuance.

Data will always be unclean. It's just a matter of degree. I internalized that on day one of my master's program in data science, when a professor warned us that roughly 80% of our time would go to preprocessing and cleaning, not building models. Years later, as Principal Product Manager for AI, ML and Analytics at Ivanti, I've found the guidance holds up remarkably well in practice.

According to Redgate’s 2026 State of the Database Landscape report, 91% of teams – no matter how experienced – still hit at least one significant challenge during their move to the cloud.

Here’s a story that plays out constantly in enterprise IT, and few people talk about afterward. A team runs an evaluation with multiple vendors using a structured scoring process. Then, they make their choice, but six months into deployment, the platform that excelled in every demo is now struggling with the actual environment. The IT leader who signed off is in a room with their CIO, trying to explain why the numbers fail to match the projections.

Enterprises are pouring billions into GPUs and AI compute, but most are overlooking the infrastructure that connects it all. Justin Ryburn, field CTO at Kentik, makes the case that the network is the most underestimated variable in whether AI initiatives succeed or fail.

Claude API pricing per million tokens: Haiku 4.5 at $1/$5, Sonnet 4.6 at $3/$15, Opus 4.7 at $5/$25. Plus caching, batch discounts, and how to optimize API spend at scale.

Claude on AWS now has two paths: Bedrock and the new Claude Platform. Compare pricing, billing mechanics, features, and cost visibility across both.