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Stop choosing between fast incident response and secure access

Every production system will eventually break. It's not pessimism, it's just reality. That's why engineers go on-call, and why companies invest heavily in incident response tooling. But here's the problem: the moment an engineer goes on call, they typically need elevated access to production systems, databases, and sensitive customer data. And that elevated access? It's often permanent, overly broad, and a security nightmare waiting to happen.

Staging Environments Explained: Why Staging Is Essential for Safe, Reliable Software Releases

A staging environment is the final checkpoint before any software update goes live, a production-like space where bugs, performance issues, and integration failures can be caught before they impact real users. In this video, we break down what a staging environment is, why it’s critical, and how it helps ensure smooth, predictable deployments.

Monitor Everything is an Anti-Pattern!

Bullshit and nonsense. But let’s take it from the beginning. The industry’s story goes something like this: Then, in the same breath: You see the contradiction already, right? The same industry that tells you “collect less, simplify, trust the experts” is also the industry where: This isn’t an observability strategy. It’s observability by hindsight. Right. Good. Now we’re having fun.

ShipTalk S4E5 | How to Build Real-World ML for 2D Drawings | Marina Petzel (Senior ML Engineer)

What does it actually take to ship AI into a 40+ year old product used by millions of professionals? In this episode of ShipTalk, Dewan Ahmed (Principal Developer Advocate, Harness) chats with Marina Petzel, Senior ML Engineer and AI Productivity Lead at Autodesk, about building and shipping practical AI, not just flashy demos.

Ubuntu Summit 25.10 | Opening remarks

Canonical's Founder and CEO, Mark Shuttleworth, welcomes the attendees of the Ubuntu Summit 25.10. He highlights the interdependence of the open source ecosystem and the role of Ubuntu as both an aggregator and an innovator. He also discusses key partnerships across silicon, cloud, ISVs, and the Ubuntu community, and introduces a new global grassroots strategy leading into future summits.

9 Monitoring Tools That Deliver AI-Native Anomaly Detection

The observability market has moved beyond manual threshold-setting. Modern platforms use statistical algorithms, machine learning, and causal AI to detect anomalies automatically. Some work immediately after deployment. Others train on your data for better accuracy. Each approach has technical trade-offs worth understanding. This guide compares how nine monitoring solutions handle automated anomaly detection and root cause analysis.

Make Data-Driven Decisions with Warehouse Native Experimentation

As organizations accelerate their AI-driven development, the need for trustworthy and transparent experimentation is greater than ever. Warehouse Native Experimentation keeps analysis where the data already lives, enabling teams to validate features with metrics and reliable SQL logic. The result is faster iteration with less risk, and decisions rooted in the same source of truth the business already trusts.

Digital sovereignty: US sanctions and the control of European cloud

"There's a big potential kill switch sitting on his desk." This clip from our Digital Sovereignty Panel exposes a fundamental threat: how US geopolitical interests can compel cloud providers like Microsoft to suspend services, even for international organizations. Panelist Johan David Michels discusses the shocking case of the ICC prosecutor, Karim Khan, whose work email was withdrawn by Microsoft following US sanctions. This illustrates the fundamental lack of digital sovereignty over data hosted by US hyperscalers.

What's Next for NaaS? Top Trends for 2026

Learn how private connectivity, regional hubs, and AI-driven automation are defining the next evolution of enterprise networking in 2026. 2026 is shaping up to be a big year for networking. We’re moving past the ideas of being simply connected – now, networks are becoming intelligent. As we see our customers lean into AI, multicloud, and automation in every corner of their operations, the way they connect everything is changing just as fast.