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How Vibe Coding A Self-Help App Made Me An AI Believer

Mar 23, 2026 By Larry Advey In CloudZero
For longer than I’m proud of, I was an AI skeptic. Then, over the holidays, I vibe coded an app whose sole purpose was to make me a better person. The app is a motivator. It’s programmed to send me timely reminders along certain themes, like reading every day, making healthy eating choices, and giving myself plenty of time to plan for anniversaries and birthdays.
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NVIDIA's Jensen Huang just described your next big cost problem

Mar 23, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
On March 18, Jensen Huang took the stage at NVIDIA’s GTC conference in San Jose for a keynote that ran well over two hours — covering everything from CUDA’s 20-year history to humanoid robots that may one day wander Disneyland. But buried inside the spectacle was a remarkably clear-eyed articulation of the economic forces now bearing down on every enterprise that builds on cloud infrastructure.
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certkit

Certificate distribution is the last mile nobody solved

Mar 23, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
Certbot is good software in the classic Linux tradition: it does one thing simply and expects you to chain it together with everything else. One server, one certificate, done. The trouble is that most environments are not simple. And the moment yours isn’t, you discover that renewing a certificate and getting it deployed are two different problems, and deployment is your problem.
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ribbon

Why AI Driven Automation Can't Wait

Mar 23, 2026 By Joni Roberts In Ribbon
Operators today are navigating unprecedented complexity—rising costs, accelerating customer expectations, and increasingly dynamic networks. In this recent video interview, my colleague Kevin Wade and I explore why AI‑driven automation has shifted from a “nice‑to‑have” technology to a core business requirement for telecom operators and beyond.
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canonical

Hot code burns: the supply chain case for letting your containers cool before you ship

Mar 23, 2026 By ijlal-loutfi In Canonical
In September 2025, dozens of popular JavaScript packages, like chalk and debug, were compromised on the npm registry. These packages are so ubiquitous they end up in everything: front-end apps, back-end microservices, and CI tooling. Developers didn’t do anything wrong, they just ran the same command they always do: npm install chalk. But then the malware arrived silently. This wasn’t a bug in an operating system. It wasn’t a virus on someone’s laptop.
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What is Virtana Application Observability and how is it different?

Mar 23, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
Application Observability, Built for Hybrid Reality Modern applications don’t live in one place. A single transaction might span: Traditional APM shows you the trace. But hybrid reality doesn’t stop at the service layer. True application observability ties transactions to the infrastructure that actually delivered them across cloud, on-prem, and everything in between. Because in hybrid environments, the root cause rarely lives in just one tier.
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civo

Introducing hosted control planes on Konstruct

Mar 23, 2026 By John Dietz In Civo
For seven years, I've watched the same pattern. An organization decides it needs a platform and assigns two of its best engineers. They estimate it will take three months, but eighteen months later, they're still integrating ArgoCD with their secrets manager, still debugging Crossplane providers, and still arguing about how to structure the GitOps repo. What’s happened is they’ve built something that works for one team and can't be repeated for a second.
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redgate

New Redgate Flyway GitHub Actions: Faster setup, safer deployments

Mar 23, 2026 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
This is a guest post from Stephanie Herr. If your team uses GitHub Actions to ship application code, you've probably wished your database changes could move through the same pipeline just as smoothly. Today, that's easier than ever. We've launched verified Redgate Flyway GitHub Actions on the GitHub Marketplace, giving you a simple, reliable way to integrate database deployments into your existing GitHub workflows.
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Best VPS Providers in 2026: Ranking by Price, Performance, and Support Quality

Best VPS Providers in 2026: Ranking by Price, Performance, and Support Quality

Mar 23, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Choosing a VPS provider directly impacts application performance, service availability, and overall infrastructure costs. While dozens of companies offer virtual servers, the real differences in performance, server geography, and support quality are substantial.
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Beyond Traditional Banking: Buying a Dedicated Server with Crypto

Beyond Traditional Banking: Buying a Dedicated Server with Crypto

Mar 23, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
As digital projects scale, the standard virtual private server often becomes insufficient to handle the increased traffic, complex database queries, and intensive computational workloads. When a business reaches this critical growth phase, migrating to a dedicated server is the logical next step. However, for those who value corporate privacy and wish to operate outside the traditional, heavily monitored banking system, the ability to buy dedicated server with crypto is an absolute game-changer.
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