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DORA is a recent addition to EU regulations designed to help businesses in the finance industry increase their security by monitoring and preventing cyberattacks by monitoring, identifying, and reacting to incidents that could threaten financial data. Throughout this article, we will explain the DORA regulation, who does the DORA regulation apply to, and how to help gain DORA compliance via implementing new security protocols and secure third-party services.

Last week, the cloud-native jamboree that is KubeCon descended on London, UK (my home city), and HAProxy Technologies set out to be the life of the party. This year’s event was our biggest yet, so we brought our A-game – with a huge booth, a lot to show off, and thousands and thousands of T-shirts to fold and give away.

It started with promise: deploy a chatbot, cut service desk costs, and deliver instant support to employees anytime, anywhere. And many large organizations bought in. But several years into this so-called “chatbot revolution,” the results tell a different story—one of inflated expectations and underwhelming outcomes. It’s time to face a hard truth: AI that only talks is no longer enough.

In a world of managed services, details can often be skipped, overlooked, ignored, or just plain avoided. And in many cases, that's fine. But if you're here, reading this, then I will take it for granted that these things interest you, and I welcome you to join me on this journey of exploration, looking under the hood of two prominent container orchestration platforms on the market: Cycle and Kubernetes.

In recent years, we’ve seen many organizations migrate from legacy incident response tools to Grafana Cloud IRM — our unified incident response and on-call management application hosted on Grafana Cloud — as they look to improve reliability, reduce costs, and consolidate their tooling. To help guide those efforts, we offer several IRM migration tools that allow you to more seamlessly migrate away from those legacy solutions and start using Grafana Cloud IRM.

Intellyx BrainBlog by Jason English for Mezmo ‍ “Bubble bubble, toil and trouble” describes the mysterious process of mixing together log data and metrics from multiple sources as they enter an observability data pipeline. ‍ Customers demand high performance, functionality-rich digital experiences with near-instantaneous response times.

Engineering teams constantly balance the need for speed and standardization, but achieving both goals at the same time often feels impossible. Developers’ dependence on platform engineers for support with infrastructure and tooling can create bottlenecks for routine operational tasks such as provisioning environments, troubleshooting incidents, and managing deployments.

Today, Android Automotive OS (AAOS) is the preferred operating system for in-vehicle infotainment among major carmakers. AAOS is a fully functional infotainment platform that supports various applications, features and services, similar to what people are used to on their Android phone. AAOS helps developers create new applications and features that enhance the driving experience, which has resulted in a rapidly growing ecosystem of compatible apps and services.

AI can be a transformative tool in network operations — but only when it’s tied to clear, measurable outcomes. Rather than chasing hype, IT and NetOps teams should focus on solving specific operational challenges like reducing MTTR, cutting costs, and stabilizing infrastructure. AI has real potential when strategically applied, and when aligned with business goals, it becomes a powerful ally in modern network operations.

You’ve landed on the ultimate guide to synthetic transaction monitoring (STM). If you want to check that your critical web services function and perform optimally, detect third-party failures, and surface issues before they reach your users…you need to know about STM. You might’ve heard it referred to as user journey monitoring or web application monitoring — we’ll get to that in a few scrolls. Let’s go.