In modern observability, distributed tracing is often considered the most expressive signal. It can be used to capture much of

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When AI developer and ops teams first adopt large models on Kubernetes, the focus is usually on getting something to

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At CES 2026, NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang made the case that AI will proliferate when open innovation is activated across

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released Java 26 on Tuesday, the opening day of its JavaOne 2026 conference in Redwood Shores, Calif., continuing the platform’s

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As AI coding assistants and autonomous agents dramatically accelerate software development, they’re introducing a security problem that most organizations aren’t

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AI code-generation tools have compressed software development cycles, but testing hasn’t kept up. Sauce Labs thinks it has found an

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How could you possibly ensure you are providing the right tools and processes to 14,000 engineers? How do you even

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At Chronosphere, we saved 74% of our storage costs by moving petabytes of time-series data from ext4 to Btrfs, the

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Over the past year, I have spoken with dozens of engineering teams about their observability pipelines and analyzed their production

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Chainguard OS is great, but what if you want to customize your own Linux? Now, with the Chainguard OS Package,

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On Tuesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4 mini and nano, two smaller models designed for tasks that agentic AI systems delegate: codebase searches,

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About two weeks ago, I posted about websites returning Markdown to make life easier for AI agents. While agents are already quite

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Generative AI tools like GitHub Copilot are not just speeding up coding; they are quietly rewiring how software developers divide

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The anti-automation glitterati may now be preparing for a new swathe of naysaying as agentic AI services are brought to

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KubeVirt is an open-source project that brings virtual machines into the Kubernetes control plane, letting teams run VMs and containers

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In today’s AI rush, I’ve seen even the most disciplined organizations find it nearly impossible to enforce the hard-won lessons

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Featherless is a serverless platform specialist that provides API-based access to open-source AI models via a supporting infrastructure. The concept

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For SREs, platform engineers, and AI/ML teams, agentic AI makes many promises that are hard to ignore. Autonomous agents that

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For 25 years, I’ve watched the database sit behind layers of protection: firewalls, VPNs, connection poolers, role-based access, and even

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Introduction: the scaling wall In 2015, Uber’s growth was outpacing its infrastructure. As the company evolved from a luxury car

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Nvidia on Monday announced the Nemotron Coalition at its GTC conference. This new coalition of AI labs will pool expertise,

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At its annual GTC conference, Nvidia on Monday announced the Nvidia Agent Toolkit, which brings together open models, runtimes, open

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Cursor‘s security team has built a fleet of AI agents that continuously monitor and secure the company’s codebase, and it

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AI labs keep searching for ways to pull developers deeper into their ecosystems. The latest move comes from Anthropic, which

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For most platform engineering and ITOps teams, the ability to orchestrate containerized workloads at scale has transformed development organizations. But

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Anthropic announced Friday that the 1-million-token context window for Claude Opus 4.6 and Claude Sonnet 4.6 is now generally available,

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Long-running and background coding agents have hit a new threshold. When an agent runs for hours, manages its own iteration

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We talk a lot about vibe coding. And to be honest, I’d heard the term far too many times before

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AI coding assistants might have made it easier to generate software, but getting that code to run reliably — packaging

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Platform teams and AI engineers are facing an unprecedented wave of decision paralysis. The rollout of NVIDIA’s Blackwell and GB200

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