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At Almaden, our mission with Collective IQ (CIQ) has been about moving IT from a reactive “firefighting” mode to a proactive, data-driven approach that anticipates impacts to employee productivity. But to build an AI-powered platform that helps other companies work smarter, we have to work smarter ourselves. We also need to deliver responsible solutions which don’t compromise corporate privacy goals.

How to archive OneDrive data in 2026. Microsoft 365 Archive excludes OneDrive - here are the real options for active users and departed employees.

A year ago, at WWDC 2025, Apple open-sourced container — a Swift-based CLI for running Linux containers on macOS, built on the Containerization framework and Apple's Virtualization.framework. The Apple container model is genuinely different from Docker Desktop's single shared Linux VM: every container gets its own lightweight VM. It matured out of preview and shipped its first stable 1.0.0 release on June 9, 2026.

You can hit every DORA target and still be losing ground. Deploy frequency up, lead time down, change failure rate and MTTR both healthy, but underneath it could be hiding an organization slowly getting worse at turning work into reliable software. New services shipping without clear owners, an attack surface widening faster than anyone is tracking, on-call rotations quietly filling up, a migration that was supposed to close last quarter still limping along.

AI is pushing code volume up almost everywhere. Shipping it is still the hard part, and the gap between leaders and everyone else is getting wider. Today we’re releasing the 2026 State of Software Delivery Q2 Pulse report, a shorter check-in between our annual reports. We analyzed more than 20 million CircleCI workflows from March 2026 to see what’s changed since the comprehensive 2026 State of Software Delivery report we published in Q1.

CloudZero now breaks out Snowflake Cortex spend on its own, so the AI usage buried in your Snowflake bill becomes a line item you can track and allocate before it ramps into a surprise.

A deployment strategy is the method an engineering team uses to release new software to production. The six core deployment strategies are recreate (big bang), rolling update, blue-green, canary, A/B testing, and shadow deployment. Each trades off between downtime risk, rollback speed, infrastructure cost, and complexity. This guide covers all six along with what each strategy actually costs in cloud and AI infrastructure spend.