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Adding AI to applications using the Model Context Protocol

Large Language Models (LLMs) are now at the cutting edge of mainstream AI systems. Their impact has been seismic, sparking a new gold rush as application developers transform the user experience away from clicks and commands into natural language and advanced automation. However, application developers have a barrier to overcome. AI models need data to reason and respond to a particular application domain.

Effective infrastructure automation to reduce data center costs

Today, managing a data center requires striking a balance between cost, security, and performance. Long-term costs are a different matter, even though upfront capital expenditures (CapEx) like real estate and hardware are well-known and reasonably predictable. According to industry surveys, operational expenses (OpEx), which include system provisioning, patching, compliance, and troubleshooting, steadily increase over time and frequently exceed 50% of total cost of ownership (TCO) by the third year.

Prometheus Logging Explained for Developers

Running apps in production? You need visibility fast. Traditional logging gives you scattered events. Prometheus gives you structured, queryable data that scales. In this guide, we’ll break down how to use Prometheus for logging-style observability, where it fits in your stack, and how to plug it into tools like Grafana or your cloud-native setup.

The State of GitOps 2025: Key findings and what they mean to you

What’s working in GitOps today and what’s not? Join Steve Fenton for an exclusive walkthrough of Octopus Deploy's inaugural State of GitOps report. Based on insights from over 600 DevOps and Platform Engineering professionals, learn how teams use GitOps in the real world, the outcomes, and the practices that lead to the best results. We’ll explore: Whether you’re just starting or looking to refine a mature practice, this webinar will give you data-backed insights and actionable takeaways.

Risk and the problems of 3rd party software dependencies

Docker's VP of Product, Michael Donovan, discusses the importance of risk management and the security challenges introduced by the scale of 3rd party software dependency in development. See the full webinar: https:/cloudsmith.com/webinars Get to know Cloudsmith: About Cloudsmith We offer the world's best cloud-native artifact management platform to control, secure, and distribute everything that flows through your software supply chain. Cloudsmith operates at enterprise scale, reduces risk, and streamlines builds.

AWS FinOps: 15 Tools For Cost Visibility And Control

AWS remains the largest cloud service provider (CSP) of the 21st century. It also provides over 240 cloud-based products and services. In some cases, these services help customers like you collect, analyze, and act on data about cloud usage and related costs. In this post, we explore how AWS services support FinOps’ best practices, including the features they offer. If you are looking for even more robust AWS FinOps tools, we will also include third-party platforms.

Entity Developer Overview: Visual ORM Designer for .NET

Entity Developer is a powerful visual ORM designer for.NET that helps you build, edit, and manage your data models faster and more efficiently. Whether you're using EF Core, NHibernate, LinqConnect, or classic Entity Framework, Entity Developer streamlines the process with rich design tools, customizable templates, and full integration with Visual Studio. In this video, we’ll walk you through the key features and show how you can.

Using a Kubernetes credential provider with Cloudsmith

Join Ian Duffy, Senior Site Reliability Engineer at Cloudsmith, as he discusses using credential providers in Kubernetes to securely pull images from private repositories. Credential providers are a great new feature that appeared in recent versions of Kubernetes. They allow you to pull images using a short-lived authentication token, which makes them less prone to leakage than long-lived credentials - bolstering security in the software supply chain.

Docker Stop vs Kill: When to Use Each Command

When a container starts consuming excessive memory or becomes unresponsive, you need a way to shut it down. The two primary options — docker stop and docker kill,both terminate containers, but they operate differently and have different implications. The key difference: docker stop sends SIGTERM for a graceful shutdown, then escalates to SIGKILL if the process doesn’t exit in time. docker kill skips straight to SIGKILL, terminating the container immediately.