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When Bots Grow Brains: RPA and Agentic AI For the Win

For a long time, robotic process automation (RPA) was the fastest way to scale repetitive digital work. Bots copied, clicked, and executed rule-based tasks faster than any human. They reduced error rates and delivered early wins for efficiency. Sounds just fine, right? Prepare for a Matrix moment, because the truth is that IT teams built RPA only for predictability. It could follow instructions, but it couldn’t adapt when something unexpected happened.

AWS And Azure Outages Will Recur - Here's How You Ensure Resilience

The cloud has long promised limitless scalability and near-perfect uptime. But if you tried to access your Microsoft 365 dashboard or recline your smart bed last week, and got nothing but a spinning icon, you weren’t alone. In the span of 10 days, both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud suffered widespread outages that rippled across industries.

KubeCon Atlanta Signals Key Shift: From Cloud Cost To Value Engineering

After three days of demos, sessions, and hallway conversations at KubeCon Atlanta, one thing became clear to CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson: the cloud-native world is shifting from cost control to value engineering. Teams aren’t just fighting bills anymore. They’re fighting complexity, GPU scarcity, Kubernetes sprawl, and pressure from the business to justify every dollar of technical investment. And this year’s KubeCon attendees? They were ready for those conversations.

How Bitbucket powers compliance and code quality at scale

Bitbucket Cloud is more than a code hosting platform. We’re an enterprise partner, helping teams code together at scale with security, compliance, and flexibility at every step. As part of the Atlassian Cloud platform serving more than 300,000 organizations around the world, we’re continuing to build the next generation of Bitbucket Cloud as your trusted cloud vendor, whether you’re a global bank, healthcare provider, or a fast-scaling tech company.

Introducing Native Flyway Support for Harness Database DevOps

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.

Harness Database DevOps Adds Flyway Support

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.

Bitbucket Pipelines Advanced Configuration Options | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Unlock the full potential of your Bitbucket Pipelines! In this video, I introduce four advanced configuration options you can add to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file to boost performance and cut costs: Try adding a larger Size parameter to your slowest steps, or set up retry conditions for flaky tests to get started.

Boost Developer Experience with LLMs!

Your laptop is powerful enough to run your own LLM. Here's why that matters While centralized AI tools help teams, they miss something critical: your personal knowledge. Meeting notes, tips, tricks, and context only you have. Kyle Fransham shows how running a local LLM changes the game. Index your own "master document of knowledge" and query it right in your dev environment. No cloud needed. The tools are accessible. The setup is simple. And the impact? Game-changing for how you work.