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Why we stopped hiring for the skills we used to hire for

Six engineers, two QA, a product owner and a Scrum Master used to be a normal squad. With today's tooling, that's bloat. Teams are being rebuilt around three people. Not because the work got smaller — because agentic tooling absorbed the parts that needed all those hands. The engineer's job shifts from writing the code to directing the agents that write it, and owning the outcome that comes out the other end.

AI Agents Need Guardrails: Building Autonomous IT with Resolve Agent Lab | Agents of IT

AI agents are moving fast. For enterprises, the bigger question is how to make them useful, trusted, and safe enough to take action. In this episode of Agents of IT, Zach Austin and Ian Coppock unpack what it takes to move from experimenting with AI to operationalizing agentic AI across the enterprise. They explore why organizations are racing to deploy AI before defining the problems they want to solve, why governance and scoped responsibilities are critical, and why the real value of AI comes from fixing and orchestrating the workflows underneath it.

SSIS Data Flow Components Update Brings Expanded API and Data Source Support

The latest release of Devart SSIS Data Flow Components expands support for cloud applications and databases with new objects and fields, updated API and metadata support, and improved authentication and data access capabilities across multiple connectors.

The Waiting Game for Data Centre Capacity (And How UK Businesses Can Beat It)

UK data centre occupancy hit 91% in 2024, according to Arizton market data, and new capacity is not arriving fast enough to close the gap. Grid connection wait times for new projects now run between five and 15 years, reports Data Center Dynamics, and Savills has attributed the 11% year-on-year drop in new capacity delivery to power constraints rather than a lack of demand or investment. Rising wholesale energy costs are addingpressure to an already tight market.

Shipped: Personalized cost access, powered by SSO

Instead of building a separate role for every team, region, or department, admins can create a single role that automatically personalizes access for each user based on their SSO attributes. Someone moves teams or a new group gets created, and the new access takes effect at their next login with no CloudZero configuration. As AI spend grows, more companies are looking to give teams visibility into their own AI costs without exposing every individual’s usage across the org.

Splunk Pricing in 2026: Full Cost Breakdown (and How to Cut It)

Splunk charges you in one of two ways: by how much data you send it each day, or by how much compute your searches and dashboards use. Security teams pay for both the platform and Splunk Enterprise Security, the app that turns Splunk into a SIEM, which is priced separately on top. This guide breaks down every part of a 2026 Splunk bill, works through a real, sourced pricing example, and lays out the ways to bring the number down, including the one lever many teams overlook.

DRIVE vs DX Core 4: What each framework measures and when to use them

Engineering organizations spent the past decade learning to measure developer and team productivity. Measurement of the organization itself did not keep pace. Now that agents are responsible for writing most of the code across many engineering organizations, it’s more important than ever to have an effective methodology for measuring productivity.

Europe Can't Find 5 Gigawatts. So It Gets Creative | Ben Baldieri, Founder of The GPU

Everyone is talking about multi-gigawatt AI data centers. Europe is solving a different challenge. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid sits down with Ben Baldieri, Founder of The GPU, to explore how power constraints, fragmented regulation, and limited grid capacity are reshaping Europe's AI infrastructure landscape.