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Trying to keep up with the latest news out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon? Use this comprehensive guide to stay updated and informed on both the European and North American events.
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Bluesky, Squarespace pros give incident, project postmortems
Bluesky saw a massive surge in requests per second after the 2024 U.S. election, while Squarespace engineers had 10 months to migrate 9 million domains from Google.
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Compare 8 tools for IT monitoring in 2025
Effective monitoring is a cornerstone of any IT environment. Examine the available tool options for IT monitoring, and compare their features, benefits and costs.
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A visual future: GraphRAG and AI observability
In the eyes of one CNCF leader, GNNs, knowledge graphs and GraphRAG will boost IT operations and create 3D views of apps and infrastructure.
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JFrog integrates with Hugging Face, Nvidia; intros JFrog ML
The partnership aims to give developers a clearer guide on safe models. It also aims to ensure enterprise-grade safety and security with the deployment of open models.
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KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025 news coverage
Trying to keep up with the latest news out of KubeCon + CloudNativeCon? Use this comprehensive guide to stay updated and informed on both the European and North American events.
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Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world
The Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io.
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Bluesky, Squarespace pros give incident, project postmortems
Bluesky saw a massive surge in requests per second after the 2024 U.S. election, while Squarespace engineers had 10 months to migrate 9 million domains from Google.
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Last-minute geek gift ideas for the holidays
Still searching for holiday gifts for geeks? Try these offbeat suggestions recommended by our panel of consultants, from the practical to the fantastic and everything in between.
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An overview of Amazon EC2 vs. AWS Lambda
EC2 and Lambda meet different needs in an AWS cloud environment -- but they can also work together. The only limits are in the minds of cloud architects.
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What is IT automation? A complete guide for IT teams
IT automation is the use of instructions to create a clear, consistent and repeatable process that replaces an IT professional's manual work in data centers and cloud deployments.
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Compare 8 tools for IT monitoring in 2025
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8 IT process automation platforms to explore in 2025
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7 task automation tools to increase productivity in 2025
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IT process automation: 6 examples to boost efficiency
A variety of software offerings, increasingly infused with AI, can help an IT shop become more productive, from handling service requests to conducting user satisfaction surveys.
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Deploy Azure landing zones using Terraform
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IT automation vs. orchestration: Key differences
As complementary technologies, automation defines each repetitive task to be performed, while orchestration assembles arrays of individual tasks to accomplish complex workflows.
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CI/CD pipeline security: Know the risks and best practices
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How AI can automate IT patch management
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How AIOps can optimize incident management teams
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IT Operations Basics
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What is management information systems (MIS)?
Management information systems (MIS) is a department within an enterprise responsible for controlling the hardware and software systems that the organization uses to make business-critical decisions.
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The term IT operations (IT ops) describes the many processes and services an IT department manages and maintains within an organization.
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What is application release automation (ARA)?
Application release automation (ARA) is a process that automatically packages and deploys an application, or application updates, through the stages of development to production.
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Model Context Protocol fever spreads in cloud-native world
The Anthropic-led spec for AI agent tool connections gains further momentum this week, with support from cloud-native infrastructure vendors such as Kubiya and Solo.io.
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Bluesky, Squarespace pros give incident, project postmortems
Bluesky saw a massive surge in requests per second after the 2024 U.S. election, while Squarespace engineers had 10 months to migrate 9 million domains from Google.
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Site reliability engineers weigh MLOps vs. LLMOps
Some of the same lessons -- and unsolved problems -- from supporting machine learning apps in production carry over to generative AI apps, but not all.
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