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Lock-in is not theoretical: What UK organizations told us about cloud exit barriers

For years, vendor lock-in has been discussed as a theoretical risk. A concern to acknowledge in architecture reviews. A box to tick in compliance frameworks. A future problem that might need addressing. Our latest research reveals something more urgent. For UK organizations, lock-in isn't theoretical anymore. It's structural. It's measurable. And it's preventing organizations from acting on their own strategic priorities.

Telemetry Talks ep. 5 - OpenTelemetry in the AI agents era

Telemetry Talks explores how OpenTelemetry’s CNCF graduation arrives at a pivotal moment for AI-powered development. Together with Alex Marshalov, we dive into vibe coding, AI agents, and the growing need for observability in GenAI systems — from prompts and token usage to reasoning chains and distributed traces — using the VictoriaMetrics stack and OpenTelemetry as the foundation for understanding the next generation of autonomous software.

ActiveMQ Protocol Comparison: AMQP vs MQTT vs OpenWire vs STOMP

One of ActiveMQ's most powerful and underappreciated capabilities is its protocol polyglotism: a single broker can simultaneously accept Java JMS clients over OpenWire, Python services over AMQP, IoT sensors over MQTT, and Ruby scripts over STOMP, all routing messages between each other without protocol bridges or translation middleware.

What Is Your Operating Model Costing Your Business?

The biggest cost in your business may not appear anywhere on your balance sheet because some of the most expensive problems are rarely measured directly. Lost productivity, recurring technology issues, underused applications, and the effort required to manage them all accumulate over time without ever appearing as a line item in a financial report.

Features in Icinga Web 2 Worth Knowing About

When you work closely with Icinga Web 2, developing modules, building dashboards, poking around the internals, you naturally pick up on features that most users never think about. Some are usability improvements that deserve more attention than they get. Others are developer conveniences that turn out to be genuinely useful in the right user situation too. They’re just the kind of thing that rarely makes it into the getting-started guide. Not all of these will apply to your daily workflow.

Are AI Tools Actually Improving Developer Experience? (Experts Cut Through the Hype)

AI tools are spreading across the entire software development lifecycle - but are they actually making developers more productive, or just adding noise? In this panel from Context Conference, Najla Elmachtoub (Squadformers) moderates a sharp, no-fluff conversation with Nathen Harvey (Google, DORA program), Bill Harding (GitClear), and Jeremy Castile (GitKraken) on what's really working when it comes to AI and developer experience.

What Is Coherent Routing?

Coherent routing, Routed Optical Networking, Converged Optical Routing Architecture (CORA), are all names for the same concept: an advanced network architecture which integrates coherent optical transceivers directly into IP routers. This convergence of layers creates a simplified and highly efficient IP-over-DWDM (IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing) network.