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#053 - The Road to Distributed AI and Kubernetes Infrastructure with Matt Butcher (Fermyon) & Ari...

Feb 13, 2026 By Komodor In Komodor
They share their professional origins, highlighting how Kubernetes transitioned from a complex tool for experts to a foundational technology for global enterprises.. Part of the conversation focuses on the history of Helm, explaining its growth from a simple hackathon project into a standard package manager. Another part takes on the future of distributed computing, specifically how Akamai is integrating infrastructure as a service to support modern workloads.
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Top Legacy Application Modernization Companies

Top Legacy Application Modernization Companies

Feb 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Here's the uncomfortable truth: most large enterprises are powered by technology older than their digital ambitions. Banks clear payments on legacy cores. Airlines coordinate fleets on systems built before cloud computing. Healthcare providers rely on infrastructure never designed for today's cybersecurity climate. According to multiple enterprise IT studies, organizations spend the majority of their technology budgets maintaining existing systems rather than building new ones. In some sectors, maintenance absorbs close to 70% of total IT spend.
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How AI Is Empowering Frontline Workers to Become Brand Storytellers

How AI Is Empowering Frontline Workers to Become Brand Storytellers

Feb 13, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Frontline workers are the face of every customer-facing organization. They interact with clients, solve problems in real time, and witness the moments that define a brand's reputation on the ground. Yet most organizations overlook their potential as authentic content creators and storytellers.
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Claude outage - February 10, 2026

Feb 12, 2026 By Colin Bartlett In StatusGator
On February 10, 2026, Claude users around the world began reporting service failures affecting chat sessions, API integrations, and Claude Code workflows. The first verified outage report reached StatusGator at 19:33 UTC. StatusGator issued an Early Warning Signal at 20:24 UTC. Claude did not post an official “Investigating” update until 22:11 UTC. This incident clearly demonstrates the gap between real user impact and official status page updates.
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Why Your Company Will Be Running OpenClaw Next Year

Feb 12, 2026 By Josh Thornton In Speedscale
You’ve probably heard of OpenClaw. Maybe you’ve seen the demos where an AI agent opens a browser, navigates to your CRM, fills in a form, and files a support ticket. No API required. Maybe you thought “that’s cool but I’d never run that at work.” Your employees already are. According to Permiso’s research, 22% of enterprise customers have employees running OpenClaw without IT approval.
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How AI Coding Is Breaking Synthetic Data Generation

Feb 12, 2026 By Matthew LeRay In Speedscale
Traditional synthetic data generation approaches, still called “Test Data Management” (TDM) by legacy vendor, were designed for a world where applications were monolithic, databases were the center of gravity and change happened slowly. The world looks a lot different now. Modern systems are distributed, often times event-driven, and increasingly powered by streaming data and AI agents. In this environment, batch-oriented synthetic data generation fails to capture how systems actually behave.
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How to Generate a New Puppet Module with VS Code and GitHub Copilot

Feb 12, 2026 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Revolutionize your infrastructure by leveraging AI tooling in the Puppet ecosystem. In this technical demonstration, we explore how to significantly reduce the time required to create new Puppet modules using Visual Studio Code, GitHub Copilot, and the Puppet Model Context Protocol (MCP) server.
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Surging AI Costs Are Eroding Business Efficiency: New CloudZero Report

Feb 12, 2026 By Michelle Dufty In CloudZero
What do 475 senior leaders across software, financial services, cybersecurity, and other industries all have in common? They have little to no idea whether their AI investments are paying off. CloudZero just released FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, a report assessing the state of cloud and AI spending. Culled from hundreds of responses from people directly accountable for cloud spending, the report shows that while FinOps maturity is accelerating, cloud efficiency is plummeting.
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The AI-nigma: FinOps Is Maturing - So Why Is Cloud Efficiency Falling?

Feb 12, 2026 By Larry Advey In CloudZero
Q: What do you call it when FinOps maturity surges but cloud efficiency plummets? A: An AI-nigma. I don’t claim to be a comedian. But I do claim to be Fred FinOps, so the paradoxical findings from CloudZero’s new report titled FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, created in partnership with B2B SaaS benchmarking firm Benchmarkit, had me scratching my head. The good news: These numbers tell a story of cloud cost maturity and control. But then there’s the bad news.
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