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Meet AURA: The Open-Source Agent Harness for Production AI : Autonomous Incident Response Demo

Watch AURA autonomously respond to a production incident in real time—from building its reasoning context and querying PagerDuty and ClickHouse, to triggering a human-in-the-loop approval with the on-call SRE, to removing the stuck pod and validating remediation. Every behavior is defined in a simple config. AURA is Mezmo's AI-powered incident response agent built for platform engineers and SREs managing high-volume telemetry pipelines.

The Modern Messaging Primer: Navigating the Shift from Legacy Middleware to Open Source Innovation

The shift from legacy middleware to open-source innovation promises agility and cost savings, but introduces the 'Modernization Tax'—operational complexity that requires new approaches to observability, governance, and management across hybrid messaging environments.

Open-Source MSP Monitoring Software: Why IT Service Providers Add Icinga to Their RMM Stack

If you run a managed service provider, your RMM software is the backbone of daily operations. Remote management, patch cycles, ticketing workflows – it handles the essentials. But if you’re monitoring more than a few dozen client environments, you’ve likely noticed that monitoring and management are not the same thing. And that difference matters more the larger you grow. This post is not about replacing your RMM.

Get Kafka-Nated S2E4: Debugging the Kafka-Iceberg Connector

In this episode of Get Kafka-Nated, host Hugh is joined by Anatolii Popov, Senior Software Engineer at Aiven, to dive into one of the most talked-about integrations in the modern data stack: Kafka to Apache Iceberg. Anatolii was accepted to speak at Iceberg Summit 2026 on debugging the Kafka Connect Iceberg Connector, and in this session we’ll cover the talk he would have given, including common failure modes, debugging locally, catalog complexities, and where the integration is heading next.

Open Source Cloud Cost Management Tools: OpenCost, Kubecost, and More

Open source software is an essential component of business operations. According to Harvard Business School, 96% of commercial software includes open source code. If companies were to build these tools from scratch, it would cost an estimated $8.8 trillion — roughly 3.5 times what companies currently spend on software. That’s not great for the bottom line. Many open source solutions are also available as standalone tools. Consider Kubernetes.

Balancing personal brand, company goals and open source in DevRel can be tricky

DevRel often means juggling goals that feel completely opposite: building trust while driving adoption, serving developers while supporting business growth. In this short, we explore why these “contradictions” are actually the secret to great Developer Relations.

The Future of Kafka and Steaming

Join Jeff Mery and Josep Prat as they discuss the future of Kafka and Streaming. In this deep dive, we break down the architectural shifts and hidden "taxes" currently hitting the data streaming ecosystem—and how to engineer your way out of them. In this video, you’ll see: The "Streaming Tax" Breakdown: A transparent look at how 3x replication, inter-AZ egress, and eCKU markups are inflating your TCO by up to 500%.

Open standards in 2026: The backbone of modern observability

Open source software and open standards are now an essential part of how organizations maintain their systems. That's not to say they haven't always been important, but the fourth annual Observability Survey, brought to you by Grafana Labs, shows just how deeply the shift to open has taken hold, with 77% of respondents saying open source and open standards are important1 to their observability strategy.

Fair Source Software in the AI age

Have you noticed AI recently? Yeah, us too. Generative AI is wreaking havoc on the software status quo, and that includes licensing, and that generates … opinions. Sentry has a long history of having opinions about software licensing. We started life as an unlicensed side project in 2008, then went through BSD, to BSL, to writing our own license, FSL.

DevEx Talks episode 2 - Women in DevRel: What Matters in Open Source?

In this DevEx Talks episode, Adriana Villela and Cortney Nickerson explore what truly matters in open source through the lens of women in Developer Relations and Community roles. From diverse career paths to navigating DevRel as women in tech, they share honest reflections on impact, feedback, and long-term motivation in cloud native ecosystems.