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What to expect from a database monitoring vendor: looking beyond the tool

Apr 23, 2026 By Laura Copeland In Redgate

Part 2: Key insights from a fireside chat with Chris Yates. Read part 1 here. Choosing a database monitoring vendor isn't just about features. Once you’re confident that it’s time to reassess your database monitoring strategy, the natural instinct is to start comparing products. However, it’s vital to know how to assess vendor relationships, support quality, and product innovation before you sign anything.

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UK Cyber Essentials is Raising the Bar. Governance is How Teams Keep It There.

Apr 23, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet

The April 2026 update to UK Cyber Essentials marks an important shift. Not because it introduces radically new security concepts, but because it removes tolerance for inconsistency. With the effective date quickly approaching, many UK organizations are focused on meeting the immediate requirements. That matters. But the more durable story is what these changes reveal about how security and compliance are now expected to operate in real world environments.

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What Is AI Agent Observability? Why Cost Is The Signal You're Missing

Apr 23, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero

Your LLM observability stack probably handles individual model calls well enough. Latency, token counts, error rates, maybe even evaluation scores....

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Test network paths with TCP, UDP, and ICMP in Datadog

Apr 23, 2026 By Addie Beach In Datadog

When developers and SREs design application tests, they often prioritize user workflows and API availability. Extending that suite with network tests that match your app’s traffic protocols can reveal whether issues originate in the network or application layer. In this post, we’ll explore how you can design effective network tests using the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP), User Datagram Protocol (UDP), or Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP), including.

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Introducing Ubuntu 26.04 LTS | Resolute Raccoon

Apr 23, 2026 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, codenamed, is now available to download. Resolute Raccoon builds on the resilience-focused improvements introduced in interim releases, with TPM-backed full-disk encryption, improved support for application permission prompting, Livepatch updates for Arm-based servers, and Rust-based utilities for enhanced memory safety. This release also brings native support for industry-leading AI/ML toolkits like NVIDIA CUDA and AMD ROCm, making Ubuntu 26.04 LTS the ideal platform for AI development and production workloads.

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Why Mandating AI Tools Backfires on Engineering Teams

Apr 23, 2026 By GitKraken In GitKraken

Responsible AI adoption for engineering teams starts with culture, not compliance. In this GitKon talk, Rizel Scarlett (Tech Lead of Open Source DevRel at Block) shares how Block helped thousands of engineers actually want to use AI tools, including Goose, Cursor, Claude Code, and more, without mandates, vibe coding disasters, or security gaps.

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Rootly's Dan Sadler: why AI coding tools are driving more incidents + why reliability is the product

Apr 23, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Dan Sadler, VP of Engineering at Rootly. Dan explains how Rootly treats reliability as a product feature rather than just a technical metric, and why culture might be the most impactful element of building reliable systems.

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AI Factories: How to architect bare metal for peak performance

Apr 23, 2026 By Canonical Ubuntu In Canonical

Poor hardware lifecycle management directly impacts AI performance and ROI. Join us to learn how treating physical servers as programmable, cloud-like resources enables higher GPU utilization, faster recovery, and more predictable AI operations.

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Cloudsmith raises $72M Series C to secure the AI software supply chain

Apr 23, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith

Cloudsmith raised $72 million in Series C funding, led by TCV and Insight Partners, to build the operating system for the modern software supply chain. AI agents are writing code faster than teams can secure it. That shifts the risk calculus because more software, built faster, means more attack surface. Artifact management is the control point between every software producer and consumer, and it's where Cloudsmith sits.

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The job is not to write code. It's to produce business value.

Apr 23, 2026 By Cristina Buenahora In Cortex

Most engineers can tell you exactly how many PRs they merged last quarter. Far fewer can tell you what any of it did for the business. The best engineering leaders can. They draw a straight line from their team's work to ARR: which reliability investment protected revenue, which migration unblocked a strategic customer, which operational improvement reduced churn. They lead with outcomes, not story points.

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