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DEX: How Digital Experience Impacts Your Company's Profitability

When a CFO evaluates a technology investment, the natural focus is often on cost reduction. That's a valid perspective-and one that will always matter-but what if there were a smarter, more impactful way to improve EBITDA? In an exclusive interview, Leandro Silva, CEO of Almaden, argues that technology decisions shouldn't only address the bottom of the income statement. To truly drive business results, leaders must also look at the top-and the key lies in the Employee Digital Experience (DEX)
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SAP Application Performance Monitoring (APM): Beyond Generic Metrics

Your enterprise APM tool shows SAP is using 90% CPU. The dashboard turns red. An alert fires. Now what? You open Dynatrace. You see the Java Virtual Machine metrics for your NetWeaver stack. You see HTTP response times for your Fiori apps. You see a spike in database calls. None of this tells you why VA01 takes 45 seconds to create a sales order. None of this tells you which custom ABAP report is consuming memory. None of this explains the short dump that crashed your pricing routine. This is the gap between generic APM and true SAP application performance monitoring. Your enterprise tools see the symptoms.

VictoriaMetrics February 2026 Ecosystem Updates

This month, we’re thrilled to see OpenAI using the VictoriaMetrics Stack internally — including VictoriaMetrics, VictoriaLogs, and VictoriaTraces — in their Harness engineering experiment, as shown in their architecture diagram. It’s a great way of combining observability and AI agents.

Grafana 12.4 release: faster and easier data visualization, observability as code updates, and more

As we gear up for Grafana 13, the next major release of the open source data visualization platform that we’ll announce at GrafanaCON this April, our engineering team is still shipping some powerful new features along the way. Case in point: Grafana 12.4 is officially here, and there’s a lot to be excited about. The latest minor release includes a ton of updates that help you build and design dashboards faster than ever, as well as manage and scale those dashboards seamlessly over time.

Getting started with Windsurf and CircleCI

AI coding assistants are transforming how developers write software. Tools like Windsurf can generate entire modules, refactor complex code, and fix bugs in seconds. But speed comes with a tradeoff: AI-generated code can introduce subtle bugs, security vulnerabilities, or breaking changes that slip past even experienced developers. That’s where continuous integration comes in. CI acts as a safety net, automatically testing every change before it reaches production.

Best Website Monitoring Tools for Compliance and Security in 2026

Compliance audits used to be annual fire drills. Teams would scramble for weeks gathering screenshots, pulling logs, and hoping nothing slipped through the cracks. That approach no longer works when regulations like GDPR and HIPAA require continuous documentation and real-time evidence of security controls. Website monitoring tools designed for compliance have evolved to address this reality, automating evidence collection and flagging issues before auditors ever arrive.

Native Nix Support in Artifactory: The Binary Cache for the Enterprise

The “works on my machine” era is officially over. Nix is changing the way we think about software by treating packages as functional, immutable values, ensuring that a build works exactly the same way every time, on every machine. But while Nix excels on a local laptop, scaling that level of reproducibility across a global enterprise has historically been a challenge.

Claude Code + OpenTelemetry: Per-Session Cost and Token Tracking

I was looking at our Claude Code spend in the Anthropic console the other day. Aggregate cost, aggregate tokens — no breakdown by developer, no breakdown by session. I knew my Hackathon team had been using it heavily on building out new features for the OpenTelemetry Distro Builder. But heavily how? I had no idea. Turns out Claude Code has been emitting OpenTelemetry signals the whole time. Per-session cost, token counts, every tool call it makes on your codebase.

Digital Employee Experience Is Now Core to IT - Recognized by Analysts, Reinforced by Customers

Over the past few years, Digital Employee Experience (DEX) has moved from emerging concept to essential capability for modern IT organizations. The conversation has changed. IT is no longer measured only by system uptime or ticket resolution. Today, success is defined by how technology actually performs for employees — and how consistently organizations can deliver productive, friction-free digital work.

The story behind Konstruct: Lessons learned scaling GitOps

In 2024, Civo acquired Konstruct (formerly Kubefirst) to reinforce our commitment to simplifying cloud computing complexities. When this acquisition was made, it began a whole new chapter for the team behind Konstruct. Over the years, we assembled our team by working with a community of thousands of engineers in what can be a very complex cloud native environment. We were fortunate to join forces with Civo as they aligned with our cloud native and portable vision.