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IBM TechXchange 2025 Takeaways: Key Insights for IT Leaders

This year at IBM TechXchange 2025, we had the privilege of not only attending but also sponsoring the event and hosting a booth in the expansive expo hall. From the moment we arrived, it was clear: IBM’s ecosystem is thriving once again. Between the buzz of innovation, the depth of technical sessions, and the sheer energy of the crowd, TechXchange 2025 stood out as one of the most impactful IBM events in recent memory.

Megaport and Latitude.sh: Bringing Compute and Connectivity Together

Megaport has entered into an agreement to acquire Latitude.sh, creating an industry-leading Compute and Network-as-a-Service platform to power high-performance applications and AI workloads globally. At Megaport, we’ve always believed infrastructure should be simple to use, powerful at scale, and flexible enough to follow the workloads that matter most.

Cloud Credits: The Hidden Lock-In Strategy Hyperscalers Use

In this 5-minute clip from our recent webinar, Canopy's James Marks exposes the most dangerous side-effect of the cloud credit model: the migration loop. Instead of building their product, companies spend months hopping between vendors to chase new credits, falling into a cycle of constant, costly re-architecting. Simon Hansford provides clear advice for the best companies: build your architecture for portability on day one. Restrict proprietary features to maintain optionality and avoid the "entrenched phase.".

WordPress Vanilla vs Composer vs Bedrock - which wins?

WordPress powers over 40% of the web, but not all WordPress installations are created equal. Whether you're a solo developer, managing an agency, or overseeing hundreds of sites, the way you install and manage WordPress can make or break your workflow. In a recent live stream discussion, we dived deep into three popular WordPress installation methods: Vanilla, Composer-based, and Bedrock. Each approach has its merits, but which one should you choose? Let's break down the showdown.

Don't pay for metrics, pay for change: A modern guide to engineering metrics

Businesses today have more access to information about their products and engineering teams than ever before, and the push to be data-driven is also at an all-time high. Engineering metrics can provide actionable insights that help accelerate technology and business impact.

OpenTelemetry Metrics in Quarkus Explained

When you run services on Quarkus, you need a steady stream of signals to understand how the application behaves—CPU trends, request timings, memory patterns, and how each endpoint responds under load. Metrics give you that visibility. They help answer questions like: OpenTelemetry fits well here because it gives Quarkus a common way to generate and export metrics without locking you into a specific monitoring tool.

Why 2025 & Beyond is The Builders Era

The tech world loves buzzwords. We’ve lived through the Cloud Era, the Mobile Era, the AI Era (we’re still in that one, apparently). But 2025 marks something different. Something developers have been craving for years but couldn’t quite name. Welcome to The Builders Era. Not because of some shiny new framework or yet another platform promising to 10x your productivity. The Builders Era is happening because developers are done being spectators in their own craft.

Improve Kubernetes reliability faster with Gremlin and Dynatrace

It’s now easier than ever to start testing Kubernetes with Dynatrace and Gremlin. With a new strategic integration, Kubernetes services set up in Dynatrace are automatically discovered in Gremlin to make testing set up simple and fast. At a time when AI is driving massive expansions in infrastructure and dramatically increasing deployment speed, being able to set up and test new services quickly is more important than ever. ‍