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AI meets SQL Server 2025 on Ubuntu

Since 2016, when Microsoft announced its intention to make Linux a first class citizen in its ecosystem, Canonical and Microsoft have been working hand in hand to make that vision a reality. Ubuntu was among the first distributions to support the preview of SQL Server on Linux. Ubuntu was the first distribution offered in the launch of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), and it remains the default to this day. Ubuntu was also the first Linux distribution to support Azure’s Confidential VMs.

The Dangerous Power of Local AI Agents. #speedscale #proxymock #aiagents #openclaw #localai

I’ve been testing OpenClaw, a fully autonomous agent that lets you remote control your entire system via Signal. It’s incredibly powerful to text your computer from a coffee shop and have it execute tasks, but you’re essentially handing the keys to your digital kingdom to an LLM. The Golden Rule: Trust, but verify. I’m using Proxymock to sniff every single API call going in and out of the agent. If there’s a data leak or a "hallucination" that tries to wipe my drive, I see it first.

Qwiet AI Is Now Harness SAST and SCA | Harness Blog

Modern application security is struggling to keep up with AI-driven development and cloud-native scale, especially when security feels bolted onto CI/CD instead of built in. Harness SAST and SCA bring AI-powered application security testing natively into the Harness platform, reducing noise and alert fatigue. By identifying only vulnerabilities that are actually reachable in production code, teams get findings they can trust and act on faster.

Best PostgreSQL ODBC Drivers in 2026: How to Choose

PostgreSQL ODBC drivers are no longer background components. For teams running BI, reporting, and ETL on PostgreSQL, the drivers directly affect how fast queries run, how reliably dashboards refresh, and whether data pipelines remain stable as usage grows. As PostgreSQL moves deeper into analytics stacks, these capabilities are driving the demand for these tools, a trend reflected in broader ODBC market growth.

What is DevOps? Definition, Lifecycle, Best Practices, & Tools

We’ve seen a huge explosion of interest in DevOps over the last few years. But for people who are new to these ideas, it’s not always obvious what DevOps entails and what the benefits are, particularly in larger environments. So, what is DevOps all about? And what do you need to know to succeed? In this blog, you’ll get a breakdown of how DevOps works, its benefits, and the best practices and tools that help teams build and deploy software with speed and confidence.

Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I Next?

Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I next? We’ve seen it across cloud providers, carriers, and global platforms—organizations with enormous scale and investment still experience public, business-impacting outages. The risk isn’t lack of effort. It’s the growing gap between AI-driven complexity and the ability to see, understand, and resolve issues fast enough to protect availability commitments.

Disaster Recovery Testing by Gremlin

Do you know how your system will respond when major outages strike? Disaster Recovery Testing safely simulates real catastrophic failures across your entire system. You can centrally and easily run zone, region, and datacenter-scale reliability tests across your entire organization simultaneously for disaster recovery, business continuity, compliance verification, and more. With Disaster Recovery Testing, tests that used to take engineering-months and dozens of experts can be done safely and securely in hours by a single person.

How To Calculate Customer Retention Cost in 2026: The Hidden SaaS Metric

You may have heard that keeping an existing customer is five times cheaper than acquiring a new one. But that isn’t always true. “Hidden costs” often accompany customer retention, loyalty, and increasing “share of customer”. Could you be spending more on customer retention than on winning new customers? This quick guide will walk you through the meaning of Customer Retention Cost (CRC), why it’s important to calculate it, and how to calculate it.

Kosli and Team Topologies - A Strategic Partnership for SDLC Governance

We’re delighted to announce a strategic partnership between Kosli and TeamTopologies - a collaboration that brings together SDLC Governance automation with the world’s leading framework for organizing business and technology for fast flow of value.

The hidden cost of "just using Kubernetes"

Kubernetes has become the default foundation for a lot of modern application infrastructure. It’s powerful, flexible, and widely supported, which makes it an obvious starting point for many teams building a cloud-native application platform (a standardized way for teams to deploy, run, secure, and operate applications in production). But there’s a distinction that often gets lost early in the decision process: Kubernetes is a framework. It is not a platform.