Cut AI Agent Validation Startup Time From 45 Seconds to 12
A fresh Chunk Sidecar took 45.6 seconds to start. With a snapshot, it only took 12.
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Best VMware Alternatives in Indonesia for Growing Enterprises
If you're an IT manager in Indonesia, chances are you've had at least one awkward conversation with your CFO about VMware licensing costs. After Broadcom's acquisition of VMware, enterprises across Southeast Asia, including hundreds in Indonesia, started seriously asking: Is there a better way?
Why Network Visibility Starts at the Switch Layer
Every IT team strives to improve visibility dashboards, alerts, and efficient root cause analysis. Of course, we tend to believe that all this is achievable via software, install some monitoring platform and immediately see all processes happening inside the network. But it's not always the case. The software monitoring solution can only show what the network itself allows you to see and such visibility starts at the switch layer.
Code Flow Live: What's New and Why It Matters
AI didn't just change how fast code gets written. It exposed a new bottleneck: everything around the code. Reviews slow down. Context gets lost. Planning drifts from implementation. Teams move fast and still feel stuck. That's the problem GitKraken is built to solve, and this Friday we're going live to walk through what's changed. We'll cover the latest Code Flow Company features we've shipped, how they connect developers, AI agents, and production into one system, and what it actually looks like to go from plan to main without the chaos.
The DevOps Hiring Crunch: How Distributed Teams Are Closing the Gap
Ask any engineering leader what keeps them up at night and "who's covering the pager next Tuesday" is usually somewhere on the list. DevOps and SRE roles have become some of the hardest positions to fill in software, and the shortage is starting to show up in the metrics ops teams care about most: MTTR, alert fatigue, and how many people are burned out on the on-call rotation.
Why AI agents need a job description | The future of agentic AI in IT
An AI agent is only as useful as the job you can safely hand it. In this Zero Ticket Minute, Ian Coppock, Resolve Customer & Partner Marketing Manager, breaks down why enterprise AI is moving toward purpose-built agents with defined roles, scoped permissions, and real guardrails. That is the foundation for autonomous IT operations and Zero Ticket IT. Subscribe for weekly insights on AI, IT automation, and where enterprise operations are heading.
Cortex Scorecards + DRIVE: measure engineering org health, not just output
Most engineering metrics track individual output. DRIVE measures the health of the system as a whole. In this Feature Friday, Director of Customer Education and Delivery Taylor Schmidt walks through Cortex's DRIVE scorecard and dashboard, a framework covering five pillars: delivery, reliability, initiatives, vigilance, and efficiency.
Why features pass QA and still break in production
Database migrations are where the mock data problem shows up most clearly. A migration that adds an index to a table with 500 rows in the development database runs in milliseconds and passes every test. The same migration against a production table with 8 million rows locks the table for 90 seconds during peak traffic. Nobody saw it coming because nobody tested it against 8 million rows. This isn't an edge case.
What was your first experience with Ubuntu?
Discover Steven’s journey with Ubuntu in this interview at Google Next.
IPoDWDM Router Solutions: A Modern Approach to Network Architecture
The relentless growth of data traffic, driven by cloud services, high-speed residential broadband, 5G mobility, and enterprise digitalization, places enormous pressure on network infrastructure. Service providers and large enterprises must scale capacity while simultaneously controlling costs and reducing operational complexity. In this environment, traditional network architectures are reaching their breaking point, creating an urgent need for a more efficient and integrated approach to transport.