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The rise of the agentic future: scaling AI workflows with relaxAI and n8n

Feb 9, 2026 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
This blog is based on the webinar, “From idea to agent: Building AI workflows with relaxAI and n8n”. You can watch the full recording by clicking here! AI isn’t slowing down. We’re moving from “ask a chatbot” to agents that run the multi-step workflows, use tools, and are built for real business processes. Most teams aren’t blocked by ideas. They’re blocked by three things: complexity, cost, and control.
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AI Vendor Lock-In: How AI Is Creating A New Dependency Problem

Feb 9, 2026 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Like most SaaS companies, you’re under pressure to ship AI-powered features faster, smarter, and at scale. For many teams, that pressure leads to relying on external AI platforms, managed models, and third-party APIs instead of building everything from scratch in-house. At first, it feels like a win. Your team ships an AI-powered feature in weeks instead of months. No GPU clusters to manage. No models to train. No infrastructure to babysit.
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Why leaders are reassessing the role of big tech in 2026

Feb 9, 2026 By Civo In Civo
This session highlights a major strategic shift where sovereignty has moved from a technical detail to a top boardroom priority. The data reveals that 84% of leaders are concerned about geopolitical threats to their data access. 82% of respondents are ready to reassess their big tech partnerships specifically to regain data control. This shift is further evidenced by the 71% of decision-makers who now place sovereignty at the heart of their tech partner choices moving forward. The era of "sovereign-by-design" infrastructure is here. Are you ready to build for a more resilient future?
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Beyond boundaries: How global collaboration defines AI in 2026

Feb 9, 2026 By Civo In Civo
As we move through 2026, the global conversation around AI is shifting from simple adoption to a deeper focus on true openness and sovereignty. In this session from Civo Navigate India 2025, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock explores the evolving state of AI openness and shares a significant milestone: India is now the world’s number one open-source contributing community.
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ilert

Reference architecture: The blueprint for safe and scalable autonomy in SRE and DevOps

Feb 9, 2026 By Leah Wessels In iLert
Everyone wants autonomous incident response. Most teams are building it wrong. ‍ The ultimate goal of autonomy in SRE and DevOps is the capacity of a system to not only detect incidents but to resolve them independently through intelligent self-regulation. However, true autonomy isn't born from automating random, isolated tasks. It requires a stable foundation: a Reference Architecture.
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Zero crashes, zero compromises: inside the HAProxy security audit

Feb 9, 2026 By Willy Tarreau In HAProxy
An in-depth look at the recent audit by Almond ITSEF, validating HAProxy’s architectural resilience and defining the shared responsibility of secure configuration. Trust is the currency of the modern web. When you are the engine behind the world’s most demanding applications, "trust" isn't a marketing slogan—it’s an engineering requirement.
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smikar

SharePoint Preservation Hold Library: Hidden Cost Trap

Feb 9, 2026 By Mark In SmiKar Software
Most executives assume that moving to Microsoft 365 simplifies cost control. Storage is “in the cloud”, usage is elastic, and governance is handled through policy. In reality, many organisations face a very different experience. They invest heavily in retention policies to meet legal and regulatory requirements, yet their SharePoint storage costs continue to rise year after year, even after large cleanup programs.
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gitkraken

6 Underused Git Commands That Solve Real Developer Problems

Feb 9, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
Most developers spend hours each week wrestling with Git. Not because they’re bad at their jobs, but because Git doesn’t actively teach you its most powerful features. At GitKon 2025, our Senior Product Marketing Manager Jonathan Silva revealed 6 underused Git commands that solve the workflow problems developers face every day: botched rebases, lost commits, and merge conflict chaos. These aren’t advanced techniques.
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Agentic AI in DevOps: The Architect's Guide to Autonomous Infrastructure | Harness Blog

Feb 9, 2026 By Aditya Kashyap In Harness
For the last decade, the holy grail of DevOps has been Automation. We spent years writing Bash scripts to move files, Terraform to provision servers, and Ansible to configure them. And for a while, it felt like magic. But any seasoned engineer knows the dirty secret of automation: it is brittle. Automation is deterministic. It only does exactly what you tell it to do. It has no brain. It cannot reason.
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