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What we learnt from our panel discussion on AI in the UK

At Civo Navigate London 2025, we hosted a panel discussion with Josh Mesout, James Faure, Abdul Hummaida, Jonas Vermeulen, and Daniel Miodovnik to discuss the latest trends and challenges in AI adoption. Through this conversation, the panelists covered topics such as the current state of AI adoption to the challenges of scaling AI, and the future of work.

EKS Pricing And Cost Optimization (2025 Guide)

AWS did not intend to build Amazon EKS; it simply had to. Kubernetes adoption beamed light years ahead of AWS’s own managed container orchestration service. This forced AWS to develop a managed service to accommodate customers who wanted to use upstream Kubernetes but did not want to manage it themselves. As soon as AWS got around to it, it knocked the Kubernetes-based container management service out of the park. Not only is Amazon EKS simpler than Kubernetes, but EKS pricing may also be worth it.

DevOps & Observability for Digital Catalogs: faster releases, fewer outages

Digital catalogs have become a core sales engine, not just a glossy PDF on a server. They power discovery, merchandising, and conversion across web and mobile experiences. When a catalog powers real revenue, the way you build and run it starts to look a lot like modern software delivery. That's where DevOps and observability enter the picture: practices that shorten release cycles, reduce risk, and keep customer experiences fast and available even on your biggest traffic days.

Simple Talk Podcast - Coffee Chat with Lee Brownhill

Steve sits down with Lee Brownhill, who by day helps clients optimize their SQL workloads in Azure and AWS at Cloud Rede, but is also a Redgate Ambassador, blogger and aspiring speaker. Lee talks about his interest in giving back to the SQL Server community through writing and speaking, having taken inspiration from others online and in-person at events, and naturally the conversation also touches upon AI, the cloud, and more.

Fix flaky tests in your sleep with Chunk by CircleCI

A test fails. You rerun it and it passes. You shrug and move on. This is how most teams deal with flaky tests. The “rerun until green” approach works in the moment, and rerunning from failed tests is a useful way to confirm whether a failure is real. But reruns don’t fix the underlying issue. Over time, they burn CI resources and can hide real instability in your code. On the other hand, fixing flaky tests can mean hours of work.

C15 Roadmap & Release 22

We’re excited to launch Release 22—our most advanced update yet. It delivers smarter controls, deeper customization, and long-term reliability. Key improvements include enhanced handling of TTY messages with Wireshark support, flexible call history recording, new Stir/Shaken override options for better traceability, and real-time call limit tracking with an upgraded interface. Plus, starting March 25, 2026, SIP code 603+ will notify callers when calls are blocked due to analytics, in line with FCC regulations.

Scale Chaos Engineering with Automation and AI

Chaos Engineering and Fault Injection testing have been proven to prevent outages, increase availability, and help companies avoid costly downtime. But without the right processes or tools, they require specialized knowledge, a deep understanding of systems, and manual effort for every test. To fully realize the benefits of Chaos Engineering, testing needs to be adopted across all engineering teams without causing a lift or investment that takes away from roadmap progress.

Single-Cloud Dependency Is a Disaster Waiting to Happen

The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engender a resilient cloud market.