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Why Observability Is Essential for Platform Engineers?

Observability is how platform teams stop being the answer to every question and start building platforms that answer those questions themselves. This article explains specifically how observability enables platform engineers to support development teams better which reducing ticket volume, cutting MTTR, enabling SLO ownership, and making microservice debugging something devs can do without escalating to you.

Run CI Tests Without Pushing: Microbuilds with Chunk sidecars

AI coding agents write code faster than your pipeline can catch mistakes. What if the agent could validate against CI before you ever push? In this 5-minute demo, we set up CircleCI's Chunk CLI and run a microbuild using Chunk sidecars, secure Linux microVMs that spin up in ~1 second in your CircleCI account, mirror your working directory (no git push required), and give your agent CI-grade feedback while it's still in context.

Detecting Data Masking Gaps in a CI Pipeline | The Tony and Tonie show Ep46

Your schema changed. Did your masking rules keep up? Here’s how Flyway and Test Data Manager can catch gaps and prevent PII exposure in dev and test. Tony and Tonie discuss how Flyway and Redgate Test Data Manager can work together in a CI pipeline to detect schema changes that introduce unmasked sensitive columns, helping teams keep production-derived test data protected as the database evolves.

AI inference vs. training: What they are and how they differ

AI inference and training are terms you'd run into if you have been around software engineering or even just scrolled through the news. Both are integral to delivering the AI-powered experiences we have come to expect from many of the applications we use daily. According to McKinsey, by 2030 inference will overtake training as the dominant workload in AI data centers, making up more than half of all AI compute and roughly 30-40% of total data center demand.

Megaport Storage Marks the Next Step Toward Automated Infrastructure at Scale

Built as a globally distributed storage platform integrated directly into the Megaport backbone and co-located with Latitude.sh compute infrastructure, Megaport Storage simplifies how organizations store, move, and access data across distributed environments with a unified infrastructure experience spanning compute, network, and storage. For years, enterprise infrastructure has moved toward abstraction. Compute became elastic. Networks became software-defined.

What is Azure Cost Management? Complete Beginner's Guide (2026)

What is Azure Cost Management and how can it help you control cloud spending? In this complete beginner's guide, Michael Stephenson explains the fundamentals of Azure Cost Management and walks through the core features available in Azure. You'll learn how Azure organizes billing accounts, subscriptions, resource groups, and management groups, and how these structures affect cost tracking and reporting.

Running AI at Enterprise Scale w/ Anthropic, Descope, Port, Rootly and Twingate

The debate about whether AI can write production code is over. Companies are handing work to fleets of agents, and for many, they write most of the code that ships to production. The next challenge is everything that happens once an entire engineering organization runs this way, at full speed. Teams that generate code 10x faster still review it at human speed, and that mismatch is now the constraint. Code ownership is also becoming an issue, as developers learn to trust agentic processes a little too much. When an agent breaks production, who is responsible?

How to ship a POC in an afternoon: a Claude Code and Upsun walkthrough for product and product marketing

I have an Upsun project that's nothing but proofs of concept. It's a dashboard, basically. Each POC gets its own tile. Click in, and you land on a page with three tabs. The first tab is a written explanation of what the POC argues. The second tab is the POC itself, with a built-in demo that automates a walkthrough of the feature so the recipient can watch it run without me on the call.