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Ask an SAP Basis or security team how they control access to their ERP, and you’ll get a confident answer. User master records, PFCG roles, firefighter IDs, separation of duties policies, and an audit someone reviews regularly. Decades of audit findings have hardened those controls. Ask the same team who can deploy code to their BTP subaccounts, and the answer is far from so confident.

Amazon told its own engineers this week to stop tokenmaxxing. The memo circulated internally in September and Amazon published it on Tuesday, Oct. 27. Tokenmaxxing is the practice of using AI as heavily as possible with little regard for whether the output justifies the spend. The memo calls token usage, adoption rates, and code-change counts “deeply flawed” ways to measure a team.

Activity categorization classifies every AI request by the work it performs, such as meeting prep, code review or account research, then assigns that spend to the team, person, model and provider behind it. It turns a provider invoice that shows only totals by model and API key into a breakdown finance can allocate, charge back and budget from. CloudZero AI Signals does this as the spend happens.

Most cost questions get answered the same way. You read a chart and the table under it together. Maybe you spot a jump on the chart, and then you go looking in the table for the service, account, or team that caused it. When you can see more of that table while the chart is still in view, the whole review goes faster. You’re also a lot less likely to lose your place halfway through.

Honeybadger Insights is pretty great. It's even greater when you connect it to Cloudflare and start shipping logs directly from Cloudflare Workers to Insights. If you're already using Cloudflare to distribute your applications, it's easy to set up. Cloudflare Workers logs capture what your application is doing at the edge: console.log() output, uncaught exceptions, and system-generated logs for each request.

If we were to reduce web performance into a single term, it would be “web vitals”. Web vitals are a universal signal that every developer can measure, and more importantly, optimize for. They describe many facets of the user experience when it comes to performance, but they were limited to specific types of navigations. Capturing web vitals for your apps has been largely about users landing on your site from somewhere else. We measured that experience and you optimized for it.

Two-thirds of UK IT leaders say they would switch cloud providers to take back control. Fifteen percent have actually done it. That is the headline from Civo's Digital Sovereignty Revolution 2026, a survey of 1,000 UK IT leaders. The intent is loud and getting louder. The movement is almost silent. It would be easy to call that apathy. It is not. UK organizations are staying on hyperscale infrastructure they no longer fully trust for four very specific reasons. Three of them are structural.

An agent that works on your laptop is borrowing three things it doesn’t own: your identity, your attention, and your judgment. It runs with your credentials and your access. It runs when you trigger it. And when it gets something wrong, you notice and tell it, which is the only evaluation it ever gets. Deploy the same skill to the cloud, unattended and pointed at production, and all three disappear at once.

Purchase order tracking is the practice of following each purchase order (PO) from the moment it's issued until the goods are delivered, invoiced and the order is closed. Procurement, finance and IT teams use it to know what was ordered, what arrived and what is still pending. In IT, the trail runs one step further: every laptop, monitor or server on the order ends up as a device with a serial number that someone has to register in the inventory.

Grafana 13.3 is here, bringing more consistency and control to how you work across Grafana. Cross-dashboard variables help you manage shared dashboard controls from one place, while Notebooks let you capture and share findings from across Grafana in a single, editable document. You'll also get a first look at Grafana's biggest visual refresh since Grafana 7, along with new ways to guide and refine dashboards built with Grafana Assistant.