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Validating real-world skills through Canonical Academy

In an increasingly volatile job market, standing out from the competition is vital. For many in the open source community, formal recognition for self-taught skills is a significant challenge. These skills are often built through hands-on hobbies, side projects, and deep community contributions. While the market is flooded with certificates and certifications, most fail to reliably measure practical execution, or fall behind the rapid pace of industry changes.

AI Agents Are the New Employees: The Identity & Security Crisis Enterprise IT Must Solve

As AI agents become more autonomous, enterprises face a new challenge: How do you secure a workforce that isn't human? In this episode of Agents of IT, Fran Fernandez, Zach Austin, and Ian Coppock explore the growing identity and security challenges surrounding Agentic AI. From permissions and governance to digital identities and access controls, the team breaks down what enterprise leaders need to know before deploying AI agents at scale.

How to Fix Azure Integration Errors in Minutes Instead of Days

Azure integration errors can be difficult to diagnose when messages flow across multiple services such as Logic Apps, Service Bus, Azure Functions, APIs, and external systems. Support teams often spend hours searching through logs and correlating events across services just to identify where a transaction failed.

Why Multi-Agent AI Workflows Need a Control Plane

AI is transforming how infrastructure and platform teams design, deploy, and operate systems. As organizations move from experimentation to production, a clear pattern is emerging. AI can decide what should change, but it cannot safely control how those changes are executed. This creates a gap in modern architectures. That gap is filled by a control plane. That control plane already exists in Puppet Enterprise Advanced.

Why Day 2 Operations Are Harder Than Deployment (And What To Do About It)

Getting your application deployed feels like finishing a race. You push the code, the containers spin up, the health checks go green, and for a brief moment everything feels solved. Then Day 2 arrives. Day 2 is not a specific date. It is the entire operational life of your application after that first successful deployment. It is the stretch of time that can last years, and it is where most teams quietly discover that deployment was the easy part.

How one PM scaled customer discovery with AI

Customer interviews are one of the most powerful ways to build better products — but they’re also time-consuming. In this video, Avinoam “Avi” Zelenko, Principal Product Manager at Atlassian, shares how he transformed the way he runs customer interviews using AI automation and Rovo agents. What used to take hours of coordination, note-taking, and manual summaries now happens automatically. By stitching together the Teamwork Collection and Slack, Avi built a workflow that captures conversations, summarizes insights, and shares them across teams in real time.

The sovereignty debate explained with Nine23

Who really owns your data? Data sovereignty has become one of the defining issues shaping digital infrastructure, cloud strategy and AI adoption. But what does it actually mean, and why has it become a board-level discussion for so many organisations? In Episode 4 of Perspectives from the Edge, Pulsant's Wendy Shearer is joined by Steve Jewell, CEO of Nine23, to explore data sovereignty and its relationship to security, resilience and digital transformation.

EU Data Act Compliance for Cloud and DevOps Teams: What Changes You Need to Make Before the Deadline

If you have been staying updated on trends, you already know that the EU data act is actually very quickly turning into one of the most important regulations for companies that manage business data and customers in Europe. Understandably, many companies have already been adjusting to privacy laws over the past few years. However, this new regulation has brought on different challenges.

Five things your logs will never tell you

A customer escalation hit my queue when I was on the customer smoke jumpers team at an observability vendor. My team was the group that parachutes into Fortune 500 accounts one bad week from churning and usually after a big customer outage. The customer had filed a billing dispute three weeks earlier and their on-call engineers were stuck. They had our full stack: logs, metrics, traces, end-to-end instrumentation, every product we sold and some we didn’t. They could see the request came in.