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AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

XERJ hit number one on GitHub promising to stop coding agents from burning tokens, so I plugged it into a large TypeScript repo I work in every day and the results weren't what I expected. That sent me down a rabbit hole testing nine agent search tools head to head on my own codebase, with exact run counts, token numbers, and setup costs. If you're thinking about adding a search tool to your agent, watch this first and save yourself the install.

Automate IT operations and resolve alert noise faster with Avior by SolarWinds. Managing mission-critical hybrid IT infrastructure requires rapid troubleshooting without sacrificing operational safety. In this video, we introduce SolarWinds Avior—a goal-oriented agentic AI designed to assist IT teams with autonomous root-cause analysis, alert optimization, and infrastructure triage under strict human oversight.

We asked some members of the Grafana AI team what AI tool they use every day, and here are the results. This was taken in June 2026, at the AI offsite in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Running an agent in your cluster should not mean opening it to the internet. AURA reaches Slack over an outbound socket, so the cluster stays locked down. Jeff Vogt connects an AURA deployment running in Kubernetes to Slack using AURA's direct Slack integration. The setup is a Slack app with an app token and a bot token, plus a few lines added to the deployment's configuration. The Kubernetes MCP server is already deployed and connected to AURA before the video starts.