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Setting Up the GitKraken MCP Server with GitLens

GitKraken MCP (Model Context Protocol) brings repository intelligence directly into VS Code, Cursor, Windsurf, and other AI-powered IDEs so your agent stops guessing and starts understanding your actual workflow. Instead of manually explaining your branch structure or digging through issues in your browser, MCP connects your AI agent to the actual state of your repositories. It understands your branches, your issue tracker, your pull requests, and your commit history—then helps you start work, resolve conflicts, and review code without leaving your editor.

Sovereignty over silence: Why Microsoft's data opacity is the real lock-in

The refusal by Microsoft to detail data flows to Police Scotland confirms the real price of hyperscale: control is an illusion. This incident isn't the problem. It’s the proof. It proves the need for a new standard in cloud computing, one that prioritizes true digital sovereignty and architectural transparency. Sovereignty, after all, is all about the customer being able to exercise control over the IT resources they use.

RancherLive: Know before you Go - KubeCon Atlanta Edition

Join us for a special Know Before You Go online session all about getting ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta! Hosted by Orlin Vasilev, this live event will feature special guest Nick Eberts — a proud Atlantan, musician, father, and Project Manager at Google. Nick will share insider tips on making the most of your KubeCon experience — from navigating the conference to exploring the best of Atlanta’s music, food, and culture. Whether it’s your first time at KubeCon or your first visit to the city, this session will help you feel right at home.

Building a Pregnancy App You Can Actually Trust!

We never talk about pregnancy in the workplace. Maybe it's time to change that. Tech is still male-dominated, which creates a ripple effect: poor maternity policies, overworked expecting developers, and privacy-invasive apps that fail the people who need them most. But what happens when a developer decides to solve this problem themselves? Rizel built a pregnancy app she could actually trust. Not because existing solutions didn't exist, but because they weren't built with real privacy, real needs, and real developer insight in mind.

Open Source Cloud Orchestration Tools Compared

Before 2011, cloud infrastructure was still new. AWS had launched EC2 and S3 in 2006. But to deploy applications, engineers had to manually spin up servers, configure storage, and set up networking — all by hand or with custom scripts. There were early configuration management tools, such as Chef and Puppet, but those didn’t offer full cloud orchestration. Then in 2011, AWS launched AWS CloudFormation as the first major orchestration tool.

CEO Diaries: Not All AI Talent Is Alike

If Meta’s (now halted) nine-figure AI talent poaching scheme was any indication, the AI talent market is pretty frothy. The number of AI-related job postings has roughly tripled since 2019, and the average salary has more than doubled (Bain). The race is on for companies to find the fastest, most sustainable routes to AI-driven business value; all companies, but especially software companies, are hotly pursuing racers. But despite what Zuckerberg & Co.

Black Friday is 30 days away. Your engineering infrastructure might not be ready

If you're anything like your peers, you probably blinked in April and found yourself a month away from Black Friday when you opened your eyes. Much like a shopper desperately scrambling to pull together gift lists for their loved ones, many engineering teams find themselves rushing to ensure their systems can handle the biggest shopping day of the year.

Why Your Next ITSM Agent Won't Be Human (and Why That's a Good Thing)

For a very long time now, IT leaders have relied on the “throw more bodies at it” strategy: when ticket volumes rise, headcount follows. That model no longer works. Hybrid work, SaaS sprawl, and cloud complexity have made human-only scaling unsustainable. The enterprises winning today aren’t scaling with headcount. They’re scaling with autonomous ITSM agents: AI-driven specialists that resolve tickets instantly, escalate only when needed, and keep operations running 24/7.