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Mentors Don't Have to Be Just One Person

Mentorship doesn't have to come from one person — it can come from an entire community. This IT leader talks about following in his mentor's footsteps, speaking at events, and getting real support from Spiceworks forums without ever being made to feel less-than for asking questions. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session.

Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark Episode 1: Fixing UI Slowness

Slow, unresponsive applications create digital friction that impacts employee productivity and generates unnecessary IT tickets. In Episode 1 of Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark, see how Spark identifies UI slowness, pinpoints the root cause, and helps IT resolve issues faster.

Terraform Modules vs. Resources: When to Promote a Pattern

Terraform gives you two ways to express the same infrastructure. You can declare resources directly, or you can wrap them in a module and call that module with inputs. Both produce identical cloud objects. The choice is not about capability, it is about where you want the complexity to live and who you want to be responsible for it. Most teams get this decision wrong in one of two directions.

What is an AI sandbox? A developer's guide

An AI sandbox is an isolated environment where code from an AI coding agent runs without direct access to your machine or your production systems. If the agent runs a destructive command or a mistaken script, the damage stays contained inside the sandbox. Developers use AI sandboxing to let agents execute code freely while keeping the host and its credentials out of reach.

Meet GCX: Give Your AI Coding Agent Production Context

Your AI agents are only as good as the context it has. Without access to what's happening in production, it can only make educated guesses. Chapters: In this video, you'll meet GCX. The bridge between AI coding agents like Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and your Grafana observability stack. You will learn how GCX securely gives AI agents access to metrics, logs, traces, dashboards, and other production telemetry so they can investigate issues, answer questions, and help you debug with real operational context.

Bring Your Own VLAN: Moving VMs to Kubernetes Without Changing a Single IP

For many organizations, modernizing their VMs before migrating them is not a realistic option, especially when external events trigger the migration. Mapping dependencies and refactoring network configurations before the deadline is impractical, forcing VMs to move as they are. The mechanics of moving a VM are largely solved.