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Every dependency security program needs a way to handle packages that have a valid business reason to stay in use despite a CVE or license issue. Ideal exception processes give developers full context upfront, including safer alternatives, then route real requests to a security team that weighs the risk profile and logs who requested it, who approved it, and for how long. Get the friction wrong in either direction and the process fails: too much and developers route around it, too little and it becomes the default path.

If someone else can turn it off, you don't own it. And most organisations haven't fully reckoned with what that means for their AI strategy. Civo Product Director Russ Smith draws a direct line from the Broadcom/VMware licensing shock to the Anthropic model restrictions, two different industries, same structural problem. When a vendor can change the rules overnight, businesses that built their strategy around that vendor are left with uncertainty and no clear next step.

The RHEL 7 agent deadline is here. Are you covered? Puppet Agent support for RHEL 7 is expiring soon—here is how to keep your systems secure. With RHEL 7 EOL approaching in August 2026, upgrading business-critical systems can be a massive headache. This overview explains how Puppet Extended Agent Support provides continued coverage for your legacy environments. Subscribe for more infrastructure management tips and leave a comment if you are planning a migration.

This video provides a step-by-step demonstration of how to record an application's real-world traffic and generate an automated sandbox environment for debugging and testing.

Every space mission begins long before launch day. Ideas become spacecraft. Thousands of decisions are made before a single engine ignites. The European Space Agency (ESA) knows what that journey looks like. As the agency prepares to increase the missions it supports by 2030, it is laying the groundwork for decades of future exploration. Working with Canonical, ESA is building a common platform for mission operations based on open source. Kubernetes, Ceph, PostgreSQL, and Kafka form ESA’s infrastructure foundation.

Everyone keeps saying we don't need junior engineers anymore. This episode makes the case that's exactly wrong. Rob sits down with two CircleCI colleagues at opposite ends of the experience spectrum: Hanabel Mengistu, a new grad less than a year into her first engineering role, and Michael Webster, who has been writing software professionally since 2012. Together they explore what it actually feels like to enter the industry right now, when AI has reshuffled the deck for everyone.