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Why individual AI adoption is breaking team-level throughput

There is a question a lot of engineering leaders are quietly sitting with right now: we have rolled out AI tools across the team, the developers seem faster, so why isn't more software actually shipping? It is a reasonable thing to consider. Pull requests are opening faster. Lines of code per sprint are up. The boilerplate that used to take full afternoons now takes minutes. By every local measure, the investment is paying off.

Driving Value from Puppet Metrics: Puppet Observability Data Connector

The Puppet Observability Data Connector is a premium Forge module included with Puppet Enterprise Advanced (PEA). This module provides a deeper dive into your Puppet agent reports. Visualizing these metrics gives you a great way to identify what is healthy and unhealthy in your environment.

Ubuntu Server: a platform made for enterprise scale

A platform is an environment that allows software to run smoothly across the infrastructure, runtime, and application layers. The key word there is “smoothly”: a good platform connects those layers so well that you don’t notice it. That’s what Ubuntu Server has become: the essential layer between bare metal and the apps running on top, continuously optimized across resource management, networking, and security. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS represents over 12 years of that work coming together.

Cut CI Environment Setup Time in Half with Chunk sidecar Snapshots

Waiting minutes for CI feedback while you're building with AI agents kills your momentum. Chunk sidecars snapshots let you freeze your environment after setup, so every boot skips the install and starts from a cached state instead of scratch. In this tutorial, we demo how to set up Chunk sidecars, snapshot it, and boot from that snapshot. We also benchmark the difference: a cold sidecar start took 45 seconds. Booting from the snapshot took 12 seconds. That's 30+ seconds saved on every run, multiplied across every developer, branch, agent, and session.

Rebuilding the CircleCI CLI from scratch

Every developer knows the moment: CI goes red, and you face a choice. Open the browser and click through the web UI to the run, the workflow, the job, the step, the log line. Or stay in the terminal, where the fix is going to happen anyway. The new CircleCI CLI exists so you can stay. It’s 1.0, it’s in beta, and it’s a ground-up rewrite in Go, not an iteration on the CLI we’ve shipped for years.

How do you run AI when your data can't leave the network?

Highly classified environment. Strict compliance requirements. Data that can't leave the network. But still a real need for the competitive advantage AI delivers. Civo Director of Enterprise Cloud Solutions John Dietz addresses exactly that challenge and how Konstruct makes it possible to run Kubernetes, deploy your own models, and point Claude Code at your own internal private servers instead of public APIs.

Amit explains AO

Most enterprises have observability tools. What they often lack is a shared view between application and infrastructure teams. When application performance degrades, finding the root cause can be slow because the data lives in separate silos. Virtana brings application observability and infrastructure intelligence together in a single platform, helping teams identify issues faster, collaborate more effectively, and shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations.