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QuickBooks to Power BI: Devart's Alternative to Microsoft's Deprecated Connector

Microsoft officially pulled the plug on the native QuickBooks Power BI connector, triggering immediate reporting disruptions for many businesses. Automated refresh stopped working, dashboards went stale, and financial reporting pipelines that once ran in the background began to fail without warning. This changed daily finance operations. Finance teams were forced back into manual CSV exports, delayed updates, and fragile reporting workflows.

Agentic AI demands a new data architecture #ai #telemetry

Clint Sharp explains why traditional schema-on-read systems cannot handle the query loads of the future. Agentic telemetry requires a 360-degree view, but structuring data only when you read it is too slow for AI-driven workloads. The solution is using LLMs to drive the cost of building parsers to near zero. Tools like Copilot Editor allow teams to map data to OCSF instantly, effectively building factories of parsers to handle the scale of agentic AI.

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.

Using AI + Rollbar's Session Replay to Understand Complex Errors

Front‑end bugs are notoriously hard to reproduce. By the time an error shows up in your monitoring tool, the most important context is already gone: what the user actually did. Session replay helps—but only if someone has the time and patience to scrub through recordings, correlate events, and form a hypothesis. That’s where Rollbar’s MCP server, paired with an AI agent like Github Copilot, changes the game.

Elephant in the Room, Episode 2: Working with Feature Flags, Read Replicas, and Postgres Analytics

Welcome to “Elephant in the Room – Presented by Aiven.” In this live series, we dig into the real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL, the elephant everyone depends on but few fully leverage. Episode 2: Join Jay Miller, Staff Product Advocate at Aiven, and special guest Alexis Roberson – senior developer educator, and feature flag enthusiast – as they explore how developers can use feature flags to ship faster, reduce risk, and create better user experiences with PostgreSQL-backed applications.

Fresh from AWS re:Invent: Supercharging HAProxy Community with AWS-LC Performance Packages

The timing couldn’t have been better. Last week, the tech world descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. It was the perfect venue to talk about cloud infrastructure, scale, and the future of application delivery. While we enjoyed talking shop at our booth, we didn't just bring swag and demos; we brought a significant performance improvement for our open-source community.

The Impact of Network Downtime on Enterprise Productivity - and How Monitoring Helps

Enterprise IT teams operate under relentless pressure to maintain seamless connectivity, yet many business leaders underestimate the financial gravity of Network Downtime. Studies consistently show that even a brief outage can cost enterprises hundreds of thousands of dollars per hour, positioning downtime as one of the most disruptive threats to business continuity.

Major Cloud Outages of 2025

Cloud outages in 2025 ranged from minor ones affecting some sections of users, to major ones affecting hundreds or thousands of users. Services like Cloudflare and AWS on which many other services depend experienced outages that affected many due to the cascading effect. Let's look at some of the major cloud outages in 2025.