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Fortifying security for Ubuntu on Azure with Metadata Security Protocol (MSP)

We’re pleased to share a security enhancement for Ubuntu workloads on Microsoft Azure. In collaboration with Microsoft, Ubuntu now supports Azure’s Metadata Security Protocol (MSP)—a feature that hardens access to the Instance Metadata Service (IMDS) and WireServer. On Ubuntu, MSP is enabled by the azure-proxy-agent package, Canonical’s integration of Microsoft’s Guest Proxy Agent (GPA).

Cortex Overview

Cortex is the leading internal developer portal that helps engineering teams ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. In this video, you’ll learn how Cortex empowers organizations to adopt best practices in DevOps and platform engineering while giving developers the tools they need to succeed. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, engineering leaders get visibility into service health, teams embrace best practices with ease, and developers gain a frictionless path to building high-quality software.

Workflows | Cortex

Cortex Workflows enable teams to streamline engineering processes, enforce best practices, and improve developer productivity with automation. In this video, we’ll show you how Cortex empowers engineering and platform teams to design, manage, and scale workflows that keep teams aligned and services reliable. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, teams can standardize processes across services, integrate automation into daily workflows, and gain visibility into engineering performance—all within a unified platform.

Catalogs & Entities | Cortex

Cortex makes it easy for engineering teams to organize, discover, and manage their software ecosystem with catalogs and entities. In this video, you’ll learn how Cortex helps teams build a unified developer portal and service catalog that improves visibility, adoption, and productivity. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, organizations reduce silos, standardize operations, and give developers the tools they need to move faster—while maintaining reliability and compliance.

Scorecards, Initiatives and Reporting | Cortex

Discover how Cortex empowers engineering teams with scorecards, initiatives, and reporting to accelerate delivery, improve service health, and align engineering with business goals. In this video, you’ll see how Cortex helps teams adopt best practices, track progress, and measure impact at scale. What you’ll learn in this video: With Cortex, teams gain clarity, leaders get actionable insights, and organizations achieve alignment across engineering initiatives.

Need to do Integration Testing without a real Postgres SQL Database? #speedscale #postgres #sql

Struggling with integration testing because you need a real Postgres SQL database running? This video walks you through how to use Speedscale's proxymock to easily record and mock a live Postgres connection. You'll see how to: By the end, you'll be able to create realistic database mocks for your testing and development, saving you time and hassle.

Resolve + Espressive: Accelerating Zero Ticket IT with Agentic AI and Automation

Traditional IT operations are struggling under the weight of manual processes, growing complexity, and escalating expectations for employee experience. Without agentic AI driven by an intelligent orchestration engine, organizations risk falling behind. That’s why Resolve and Espressive have joined forces. Together, we’ll deliver the industry’s most advanced AI agents for enterprises, combining conversational intelligence with powerful automation to eliminate tickets end-to-end.

How to Overcome NaaS Integration Challenges

As network teams constantly search for new ways to simplify and optimize their networks, it helps to hear from experts who have spent years at the center of these transformations. One of these voices is Fabio D’Avino, a specialist in Network as a Service (NaaS) with more than seven years of experience researching, designing, and building global network services across industries.