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Checkly Is Now a Connector in Honeycomb Canvas

Honeycomb recently launched Canvas connectors, with Checkly serving among its first group of integration partners. With the Honeycomb Canvas connector for Checkly, the Canvas Agent can bring your synthetic monitoring into an investigation to help determine which checks are failing, from which locations, since when, and what Rocky AI identified as the likely root cause.

Can Big Tech's $200 Billion AI Bet Pay Off?

China’s AI and chip stocks have fallen sharply, raising a bigger question: could the same thing happen in the U.S.? With Microsoft, Alphabet, and Amazon reporting earnings, investors are looking for signs that cloud growth can justify the enormous sums being spent on AI. Is this a warning for the U.S. market, or can Big Tech’s AI investments deliver the growth investors expect?

What Network Infrastructure Management Involves and How It Keeps Every Site Running

Why does the help desk still hear about network problems before the network engineers do, even with every router and switch under monitoring? In most cases the alert does its job, and the hours go into what comes after it. Tracking down who last touched the config takes time, and so does checking the switch's vendor support and how close that branch link is to capacity. Networks also no longer behave like a single system.

Move the elephant, keep the lights on

TL;DR All scripts in this post live in the companion repository dkrautschick/pg-logical-migration. Every step references a numbered script you can run against your own Aiven project, and the listings/ folder has each step as a standalone snippet for copy-paste self-tests. The demo database is beerdb, a small craft-beer database, because every example database should contain at least one Doppelbock.

All Things Open reminded me that Open Source is at the Heart of What We Do

That was the question posed at the Women in Open Source+ Panel I had been asked to moderate. The panelists, from Snowflake, AWS, and NVIDIA, gave similar answers: We have our jobs today because of the community, and I don’t see that changing any time soon. I felt the same. When I joined Aiven, its direct callout to open source was a deciding factor.

Nexthink Named a Leader in Forrester Wave DEXM Solutions 2026

Dear Nexthink community, Nexthink has been named a Leader in the 2026 Forrester Wave for Digital Employee Experience Management Solutions. I am incredibly proud to share this recognition with our customers, partners, and every Nexthinker whose commitment and ambition have brought us here. As a founder, this recognition is particularly meaningful.

Audit-Ready Before the Holiday Rush: How Retail IT Teams Prevent Outages with Puppet

Every retail IT leader knows that a mix of anticipation, cautious relief, and low-grade paranoia the week before the holiday freeze. Change requests stack up. Teams push last-minute updates to servers, registers, and store systems. And somewhere across hundreds or thousands of locations, one system has drifted slightly out of compliance. Nobody notices until peak traffic arrives. Then a lane goes down, a register stops processing transactions, checkout slows, and revenue starts walking out the door.

Setting up Syslog in your Papertrail trial? Here's what to send your admin

Sending server logs to Papertrail over Syslog takes one setup command, and running it needs admin access: sudo on Linux, or Administrator rights on Windows. If you started a free trial but don’t have that access here are instructions to get your logs flowing. Copy your setup command, send it to a teammate who has admin access using one of the ready-made messages below, and your logs can be streaming in Papertrail within minutes of them running the script. This post walks you through those steps.

Why AI Coding Agents Are Breaking Your Software

While AI coding agents increase initial build speed, they often lack context about real-world user behavior, leading to downstream production bugs. Watch to learn how to move beyond basic agent-on-agent reviews and set up a true "Quality Factory" using: Check out our demos or get started free: speedscale.com.