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What Is Coherent Optics?

Coherent optics is an advanced optical transmission technology that uses the modulation of light amplitude and phase, combined with digital signal processing, to transmit massive amounts of data over existing fiber optic cables, dramatically increasing network capacity by maximizing spectral efficiency without requiring new physical fiber deployments. Next-generation transport networks face a constant challenge: scaling capacity to keep up with relentless data growth.

NVIDIA B300 vs. NVIDIA B200: Blackwell Ultra vs. Blackwell

The Blackwell architecture arrived in 2024 as NVIDIA's answer to the next era of AI compute. The B200 set a new standard for inference performance, memory capacity, and training throughput, and many teams are still ramping up their use of it today. Then came Blackwell Ultra. The B300 is built on the same silicon foundation as the B200: same dual-reticle die design, same TSMC 4NP process node, same NVLink 5 interconnect.

Shipped: Catch a cost spike before it hits your bill

You’re probably already tracking the metrics that matter most in your Analytics dashboards like unit economics, AI ROI, and spend by team. Now you can put a target on any of them. Pick the metric, set the threshold, and CloudZero emails you when it’s crossed, with no ticket to us, no custom build.

How to measure AI ROI: metrics and a framework finance can actually run

To measure AI ROI, compare attributable value (revenue lift, cost savings, engineering time recovered, risk reduction) against fully loaded AI spend (API usage, subscriptions, infrastructure, people time) at the unit level: per initiative, per team, per task. The formula is simple. The instrumentation is the hard part, and it's where most organizations are failing: in CloudZero's 2026 survey, 34% of finance leaders couldn't produce a credible ROI number at all.

Chaos Hub in docs, Prompt Library for MCP: what's new in Resilience Testing | Harness Blog

The latest Resilience Testing documentation update brings Chaos Hub directly into the docs, making it easier to discover and use fault, probe, and action templates. It also introduces a Prompt Library with ready-to-use AI prompts for Harness MCP, helping teams run resilience workflows faster using natural language.

DevOps and CI/CD Practices for Scaling Mobile App Backends in Fintech

Fintech mobile applications operate in an environment where performance, reliability, and security are equally important. A slow payment request, an API outage, or a failed deployment can affect thousands of transactions and quickly undermine customer trust. As a product grows, its backend must handle rising traffic without sacrificing stability.

Agent security starts with where the agent runs, not how it behaves

When engineering teams evaluate AI agents, the first questions are usually about capability. Which model performs best? How much faster can it write code? What's the return on investment? Security, if it enters the conversation at all, tends to come later. Patrick Dawkins, Principal Software Engineer at Upsun, thinks that's backward. Over the past year, he's been building the infrastructure that enables AI agents to operate safely within engineering teams.

Railway Mania, the birth of the S&P 500, and the lesson for the AI era

In 1846, Britain poured roughly 7% of its national income into railways, proportionally about three times what the U.S. spends on AI infrastructure today. The technology delivered everything it promised, and a generation of investors still lost their shirts. What sorted the winners from the wreckage wasn't conviction about the technology; it was whether ROI was measured or asserted. The man who fixed that problem gave his name to the S&P 500.