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Access Real-Time Infrastructure Data With Puppet Infra Assistant #puppet #itautomation #aiops

Puppet Infra Assistant allows easy access to real-time infrastructure data to make faster data driven decisions. Be future-ready and effortlessly access vital infrastructure data with Puppet Infra Assistant; no Puppet experience required.

Replication Job Monitoring Support in Redgate Monitor

Whether it’s a stalled Log Reader Agent, a conflicting insert on the subscriber, or a failed cleanup job bloating the distribution database, Redgate Monitor now brings SQL Server replication issues to light early, before performance or reliability are affected. In many SQL Server environments, replication remains essential for offloading reporting and analytics workloads, or for maintaining local and synchronized data copies across regions.

Easy JIRA Automation Anyone Can Do in Minutes

Tired of manually updating Jira issues after every change? Want to avoid the dreaded "what's the status of XYZ ticket" question? In this video, we’ll show you how to automate Jira updates using Smart Commits and Jira Automation Rules — so your issues always stay up to date without you lifting a finger. We’ll cover what they are and how they work, then walk through how to incorporate them into your workflows.

Building dbRosetta Using AI: Part 2, Defining the Project & Prompt Templates

This is the next installment of the series on building a database and an application called dbRosetta using AI/LLM. Part 1 introduces the concept. THE AI PICKED DATABASE FIRST! Look, I talk databases at this thing a lot, so it probably knows my own preference, but when I asked it, it chose to build a database separate from the code. Let’s get into it.

Azure VM utils now included in Ubuntu: boosting cloud workloads

Ubuntu images on Microsoft Azure have recently started shipping with the open source package azure-vm-utils included by default. Azure VM utils is a package that provides essential utilities and udev rules to optimize the Linux experience on Azure. This change results in more reliable disks, smoother networking on accelerated setups, and fewer tweaks to get things running. Here’s what you need to know.

What Are AI Guardrails

When you're shipping LLM features, a lot of the work goes into keeping the model's behavior predictable. You deal with questions like: These are everyday concerns when you integrate LLMs into production systems. Guardrails AI provides a Python framework that helps you enforce those expectations. You define the schema or constraints you need, and the framework validates both the inputs going into the model and the outputs coming back.

Densify Releases New MCP Server to Bring AI-Driven Resource & GPU Optimization to Platform Teams

As excitement builds for KubeCon North America 2025 in Atlanta, Densify has released its latest innovation for Kubernetes and AI-driven infrastructure resource management: the Densify Model Context Protocol (MCP) Server. This new capability enables organizations to securely integrate Densify’s Kubex resource optimization intelligence directly into popular LLM-powered tools — including ChatGPT, Claude, Cursor, and Gemini CLI.