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Currently, you’ll hear a lot about Copilot, Microsoft 365 security, and modern workplace innovation. But here’s the question: Who’s making sure it all actually works, every day, without interruption?

When we think about saving the planet, we usually imagine solar panels, electric cars, or governments making sweeping climate policies. Rarely do we picture rows of blinking servers in a data center or IT admins patching endpoints. Maybe we should. In today's world, the intersection between technology and sustainability is becoming impossible to ignore, and the IT industry is right at the center of it. The truth is, IT is both part of the problem and part of the solution.

Although container-related technology existed before 2013, Docker revolutionized and propelled it into the mainstream. Using Docker, developers could automatically create containers from application source code, share libraries, and reuse containers. Docker enables you to track container image versions, roll back to an earlier iteration, and track who built a specific one. You can even upload only the deltas between two versions.

Organizations in Brazil are eager to adopt some of the latest observability trends and technologies as they look to keep their software running as smoothly as possible, according to analysis of a micro survey recently conducted by Grafana Labs. Observability is an evolving space, and this is the first time Grafana Labs has run a Brazilian version of our annual Observability Survey.

After years of overhyped pilots and half-baked “AI” assistants, IT leaders are increasingly skeptical of chatbot vendors pitching the same old logic trees that are disguised by prettier interfaces. These leaders don’t want another script engine in Slack; they want fewer tickets, faster resolution, and better employee experiences. That’s where RITA comes in. RITA isn’t just a chatbot alternative.

Recently I was asked to offer my opinions on Application Performance Management (APM) and Observability (o11y) - how they overlap, compete, and conflict. I was just one of several folks who's ideas were solicited, so (understandably) some of my thoughts were left out of the original article. HOWEVER, I'm never one to let good words (or at least a lot of words) go to waste, so I thought I'd pull them together here.

If you want to align green awareness with bottom-line impact, start by looking at your cloud waste. Not just as a budget problem, but also as wasted energy, because that’s exactly what it is. AI, especially, is a mounting factor. Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2025 report highlights the growing energy demands of large AI models, warning that electricity use in data centers could soon rival that of entire nations like Sweden or Germany.

You just shipped your latest frontend release. It passed QA, CI ran, and it looked great in pre-production. But now it’s live and users are hitting an unexpected error: TypeError: undefined is not a function in Chrome. Your error tracking tool flags the exception. You get a stack trace, some breadcrumbs, maybe a session replay.