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Winning in the AI Era: How Top Teams are Driving Their Velocity Gains with Alloy & Chime

Mar 27, 2026 By CircleCI In CircleCI
While most teams struggle with the complexity of AI-generated code, Alloy and Chime have built internal cultures and processes that enable them to scale their development while maintaining quality. Join CircleCI’s CTO, Rob Zuber, in conversation with Maciej Makowski, Senior Software Developer at Chime, and Sunny Singh, Senior Software Engineer at Alloy, as they explore the dynamics that set their teams apart. They'll talk through the culture and delivery practices that actually moved the needle.
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Lowering PUE: Building Envelope Efficiency in Edge Computing Units

Lowering PUE: Building Envelope Efficiency in Edge Computing Units

Mar 27, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Edge computing is changing how we handle data across the globe. Smaller units closer to the user need smart cooling to stay efficient. Compact systems handle big tasks in small spaces without needing giant server rooms. Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) tracks how much energy goes to IT versus support. Improving the outer shell of units helps keep costs low. High efficiency is a goal for every tech site, and it saves money.
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The Observability Gap: Why Monitoring Data Should Drive Tests

Mar 26, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
Most teams already know a lot about production. They have dashboards. They have traces. They have alerts. They have enough telemetry to explain what happened after an incident and enough graphs to argue about it for the rest of the week. Then they go to test a change and start from scratch. The integration tests hit a hand-written mock that returns {"status": "ok"}. The load tests replay a CSV somebody exported months ago. Staging is close enough to production right up until it matters.
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AWS VPC Peering Vs. Transit Gateway: Which To Choose And Why [2026]

Mar 26, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
VPC peering can be simple and cost-effective in smaller setups. For growing multi-account platforms, Transit Gateway can offer predictable structure and centralized governance. But that’s not all. AWS VPC peering connects two VPCs directly with no hourly fee — simple and cost-effective at small scale, but it creates an unmanageable mesh as your VPC count grows.
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Build Numbers That Actually Make Sense: Branch-Scoped Sequence IDs in Harness CI | Harness Blog

Mar 26, 2026 By Abhay Ganvir In Harness
You're tagging Docker images with build numbers. -Build is your latest production release on main. A developer pushes a hotfix to release-v2.1, that run becomes build. -Another merges to develop, build. A week later someone asks: "What build number are we on for production?" You check the registry. -You see,,, on main. The numbers in between? Scattered across feature branches that may never ship. Your build numbers have stopped telling a useful story.
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Jensen Huang's warning: lead the AI transition - or finance it

Mar 26, 2026 By Erik Peterson In CloudZero
The wrong people got the most attention from Jensen Huang’s comments last week. Huang told the All-In Podcast that he’d be “deeply alarmed” if a $500,000 engineer consumed less than $250,000 in AI tokens annually. Within 48 hours, the discourse collapsed into a compensation debate.
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£10M Investment in UK AI Infrastructure | Pulsant CEO Talks to Data Centre Solutions

Mar 26, 2026 By PulsantUK In Pulsant
Join Pulsant CEO Rob Coupland in an exclusive interview with Phil Alsop, Editor at Data Centre Solutions (@datacentres), as they explore Pulsant’s £10 million investment in the Milton Keynes data centre. This upgrade delivers high-density, sovereign computing capacity, helping businesses accelerate AI and tech projects while keeping data secure and local. Rob also shares plans to expand this high-density model across the UK, supporting enterprise AI at scale and boosting local economies.
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AI Deployment in Production: Orchestrate LLMs, RAG, Agents | Harness Blog

Mar 26, 2026 By Chinmay Gaikwad In Harness
For the past few years, the narrative around Artificial Intelligence has been dominated by what I like to call the "magic box" illusion. We assumed that deploying AI simply meant passing a user’s question through an API key to a Large Language Model (LLM) and waiting for a brilliant answer.
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Groq vs. GPUs: The future of AI inference in 2026

Mar 26, 2026 By Jubril Oyetunji In Civo
Back in 2016, Jonathan Ross founded Groq, the AI chip startup, which went on to enter a non-exclusive licensing agreement with NVIDIA for Groq’s inference technology (as part of a $20 billion deal). The name ‘Groq’ is commonly confused with X (formerly Twitter)’s Grok, which was launched in 2023 as a Gen AI chatbot. As demand for real-time AI continues to grow, inference has become one of the most important and expensive parts of the machine learning lifecycle.
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LiteLLM Compromise: Securing AI Pipelines from PyPI Supply Chain Attacks | Harness Blog

Mar 26, 2026 By Pranay Shah In Harness
On March 24, 2026, the AI open-source ecosystem was impacted by a critical supply chain attack involving the widely used Python package LiteLLM. Attackers compromised the LiteLLM PyPI distribution pipeline and published malicious versions (notably in the 1.82.7-1.82.8 range), embedding a multi-stage payload designed to steal credentials and execute remote code.
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