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The Now, New and Next in Data Center Infrastructure Management

Bill has built something truly special. For nearly a decade, this has been the place where data center leaders move beyond the basics and tackle real challenges: driving adoption, demonstrating ROI, navigating organizational change, and turning infrastructure data into strategic advantage. Following in his footsteps is both an honor and a responsibility I don’t take lightly. What we’ll cover in this Edition: This isn’t a product demo.

5 Database Monitoring Tips Every DBA Should Use to Reduce Firefighting

This is a guest post from udara.ratnakumara. In a recent webinar I hosted with my colleague Chris Hawkins, Inside a DBA’s Day: What Really Happens and How to Stay Ahead, we talked through the realities of a typical DBA day and the practical ways teams can stay ahead of issues rather than constantly reacting. For many DBAs, the day doesn’t start with coffee. It starts with an alert. A report is suddenly slow. An application query is timing out.

AI Merge Conflict Resolution + Commit Messages in GitKraken Desktop

AI-assisted merge conflict resolution is changing how developers handle Git workflows. Watch GitKraken Ambassador Kevin Bost demonstrate AI-powered features that eliminate merge conflict dread, clean up messy commit history, and generate contextual commit messages in seconds.

Knowledge Graphs: The Backbone of AI-First Software Delivery | Harness Blog

--- ‍Key Takeaways --- AI can generate code in seconds. It still can’t ship software safely. That gap isn’t about model quality or prompt engineering. It’s about context, and most software organizations don’t have a system that accurately reflects how pipelines, services, environments, policies, and teams actually relate to each other. Without that context, AI doesn’t automate delivery. It amplifies risk.

The Incident You Never Had: Deterministic Simulations w/ Will Wilson (Antithesis CEO)

Most reliability engineering happens after something breaks. Will Wilson thinks that's the wrong place to be. As co-founder and CEO of Antithesis, the autonomous testing platform that just raised $105M in a Series A led by Jane Street, Will has spent years building the infrastructure to catch failure modes before they ever reach production. His starting point is uncomfortable: the testing practices most teams rely on are structurally incapable of finding the bugs that cause real incidents.

Securing AI and Securing With AI: AI Security from Code to Runtime With Harness | Harness Blog

AI is changing both what you build and how you build it - at the same time. Today, Harness is announcing two new products to secure both: AI Security, a new product to discover, test, and protect AI running in your applications, and Secure AI Coding, a new capability of Harness SAST that secures the code your AI tools are writing.

Top 10 Container Orchestration Tools & Platforms Worth Checking Out in 2026

Sources: G2 reviews, vendor documentation, 2026 market data. Docker's release in 2013 made Linux namespaces and cgroups accessible without deep kernel expertise, and container adoption took off fast. The value was clear: one portable unit with everything the process needs, running consistently across any host. Teams that were previously shipping VMs with bundled OS, runtime, and application code finally had a better option, and they took it.

Code Optimization: The Cloud Always Collects Its $2,000 Tuition Fee

We hear a lot of war stories from the teams we work with. Horror stories about cloud bills, surprise overages, and the infrastructure decisions that seemed perfectly reasonable at the time. This one comes from Erik Dasque, CTO at Allure Security. It involves a junior developer, a Kubernetes CronJob, and a recurring bill that, if not caught, would have happened on a yearly basis.

Top 10 Platform Engineering Platforms for 2026 (March Edition)

Platform engineering is rapidly evolving as businesses look for more efficient ways to manage infrastructure, automate workflows, and improve developer productivity. In this edition, we’ll explore the top 10 platform engineering platforms for March 2026, optimized for scalability, automation, and ease of use. These platforms empower developers to focus on building code while platform engineers handle infrastructure with reduced complexity.

AWS App Runner: How It Works, Pricing, And Best Practices For Cost Optimization Today

Back in May of 2021, containers had already won. Kubernetes adoption was surging. ECS and EKS were powerful. But for many teams, deploying a simple containerized web service still meant stitching together clusters, networking rules, scaling policies, load balancers, IAM roles, and CI/CD pipelines. It felt heavier than it should. Developers no longer wanted more orchestration power. They wanted less operational drag.