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Should platform, SRE, and security merge into one function?

Platform, SRE, and security are three distinct functions in modern engineering orgs, each shaped by a different problem. SRE was the operations function's answer to scale: how to keep systems reliable when the systems get big. Platform answered a different problem: how to let developers ship without becoming infrastructure experts. Security drew the line on what could safely reach production.

Why Observability Is Essential for Platform Engineers?

Observability is how platform teams stop being the answer to every question and start building platforms that answer those questions themselves. This article explains specifically how observability enables platform engineers to support development teams better which reducing ticket volume, cutting MTTR, enabling SLO ownership, and making microservice debugging something devs can do without escalating to you.

UK GDPR compliance for cloud and hosting: requirements, risks and responsibilities

UK organisations using cloud services carry a clear legal obligation: they must demonstrate compliance with UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, not simply assert it. The shift to cloud and hosted infrastructure does not transfer that responsibility to a provider. It distributes it across a chain of controllers and processors that regulators expect you to understand and manage. Post-Brexit, that obligation is set within a distinct legal framework.

What Is IPoDWDM? A Guide to Converged IP and Optical Networking

IP over Dense Wavelength Division Multiplexing (IPoDWDM) is a network architecture that integrates optical transmission capabilities directly into IP networking equipment such as routers and switches. This approach represents a significant evolution from traditional network designs, where IP and optical layers were managed as separate domains with distinct hardware and operational teams.

Shipped: Keep your cost allocation logic out of the wrong hands

CostFormation is how your organization models cost allocation. As more teams adopt it, protecting that logic matters. RBAC for CostFormation Namespaces lets you scope access at the namespace level, so the right people can view and edit Dimensions, and everyone else can’t.

A look into Ubuntu Core 26: Deploying AI models on Renesas RZ/V series for production

Welcome to this blog series which explores innovative uses of Ubuntu Core. Throughout this series, Canonical’s Engineers will show what you can build with our releases, highlighting the features and tools available to you. In this blog, Asa Mirzaieva, engineer from the Silicon Alliances team, will show you how to deploy optimised AI models on Renesas RZ/V series hardware using the Dynamically Reconfigurable Processor for AI (DRP-AI).

Variable Sharing and Dynamic Step Conditions | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Bitbucket Pipelines lets you invoke child pipelines from a parent step, but until now there was no way to pass information between them. Variable sharing changes that. You can define variables in a parent step and pass them directly to child pipelines as custom pipeline variables. With dynamic step conditions, those child pipelines can make decisions at runtime based on the values they receive, like skipping a deployment when a security scan detects critical vulnerabilities.

Prevent container image overwrites with immutable tags in Bitbucket Packages

We’re excited to announce that immutable tags are now available for the Bitbucket Packages container registry. With immutable tags, workspace admins can set container image tags from being overwritten, moved, or modified after they’re first pushed.

Testing AI Code is a Security Nightmare? #Speedscale #DevOps #Kubernetes #AICoding #SoftwareTesting

AI can write a feature in seconds, but where are you testing it? Sending production traffic, API payloads, and auth headers to a third-party SaaS is a massive security risk. In this video, we break down why the Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC) model is the ultimate fix for DevSecOps. Learn how to safely test AI-generated code against real production traffic entirely within your own VPC or Kubernetes cluster. No data leaks, no massive DLP pipelines, and no endless masking rules.