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How to Use Your Knowledge Base to Increase AI Chatbot Deflection

Jul 10, 2026 By Natalí Valle In InvGate
Ticket deflection is the metric IT leaders point to when they talk about AI chatbot ROI, and the knowledge base is the part of the equation that determines whether that number moves. A chatbot can run natural language processing well and still deflect almost nothing if the content behind it is thin, outdated, or scattered across articles that don't match how people actually ask questions.
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Slack overview video

Jul 10, 2026 By Spike - incident response platform In Spike
The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.
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We rebuilt Spike app for Slack

Jul 10, 2026 By Spike - incident response platform In Spike
The new Spike app for Slack brings incident response into the channel your team already works in. This walkthrough covers the @Spike AI assistant, the redesigned incident alert template, Statuspage syncing, and on-call overrides. To get started, head to Slack settings inside Spike and reconnect the app. Chapters Statuspage syncing is available on all plans. Spike is an incident response and on-call management platform. Alert routing, escalation policies, on-call schedules, and incident management, built for engineering teams.
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Shai-Hulud style attacks need more than scanning

Jul 10, 2026 By Cloudsmith In Cloudsmith
Pre-install scripts mean a malicious package can compromise a developer's laptop the moment it's pulled – no build, no deploy, no install required. That breaks the old model where scanning catches a bad package after the fact, when it's already too late. The fix is active policy enforcement at the point of pull, using signals like package age, signed provenance, and maintainer trust to filter out malicious packages before they ever land.
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Aiven

OpenSearch 3.6: Agentic Applications Meet Long-Term Support

Jul 10, 2026 By Andrei Trepet | In Aiven
TL;DR OpenSearch 3.6 makes agentic search production-ready, with the AI-powered Launchpad provisioning full search apps in minutes and faster default vector search, and it's the first LTS release, bringing 18+ months of guaranteed support, SBOMs, and an upstream-first commitment (every fix goes back to the main project) so teams get fast-moving open source and a stable, supported platform at once.
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ribbon

IPoDWDM Router Solutions: A Modern Approach to Network Architecture

Jul 10, 2026 By David Stokes In Ribbon
The relentless growth of data traffic, driven by cloud services, high-speed residential broadband, 5G mobility, and enterprise digitalization, places enormous pressure on network infrastructure. Service providers and large enterprises must scale capacity while simultaneously controlling costs and reducing operational complexity. In this environment, traditional network architectures are reaching their breaking point, creating an urgent need for a more efficient and integrated approach to transport.
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datadog

Making agentic token costs visible in production

Jul 10, 2026 By Datadog In Datadog
In some organizations, high token counts have become a proxy for productivity. Some engineering teams are being pushed to max out context windows and wire in sprawling tool sets. More tokens can mean better agent reasoning and richer context during development, but token costs compound in production. Tokens accumulate across sessions, users, and tool calls in ways that are easy to overlook. Datadog’s 2026 State of AI Engineering report quantifies the scale of this problem.
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motadata

What Is Observability 2.0? Meaning, Key Features, and How to Adopt It

Jul 10, 2026 By Ramya Shah In Motadata
How many tools does your team need to answer one question about production? For most enterprise IT teams the honest count is four: a metrics dashboard, a log analyzer, a tracing tool, and the spreadsheet where someone stitches the other three together during an incident. Each of those tools stores its own copy of the truth and sends its own bill.
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