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We are thrilled to announce that the OpenSearch major version 3 (3.3.2) is available on Aiven for OpenSearch, only a few weeks after its upstream release! The major version 3 of OpenSearch is a foundational upgrade, built on a new, high-performance core, marking a significant step forward in performance and usability. This means that as an Aiven customer, you get immediate access to a faster, more efficient search experience, all fully managed.

Everyone wants autonomous incident response. Most teams are building it wrong. ‍ The ultimate goal of autonomy in SRE and DevOps is the capacity of a system to not only detect incidents but to resolve them independently through intelligent self-regulation. However, true autonomy isn't born from automating random, isolated tasks. It requires a stable foundation: a Reference Architecture.

An in-depth look at the recent audit by Almond ITSEF, validating HAProxy’s architectural resilience and defining the shared responsibility of secure configuration. Trust is the currency of the modern web. When you are the engine behind the world’s most demanding applications, "trust" isn't a marketing slogan—it’s an engineering requirement.

Most executives assume that moving to Microsoft 365 simplifies cost control. Storage is “in the cloud”, usage is elastic, and governance is handled through policy. In reality, many organisations face a very different experience. They invest heavily in retention policies to meet legal and regulatory requirements, yet their SharePoint storage costs continue to rise year after year, even after large cleanup programs.

Most developers spend hours each week wrestling with Git. Not because they’re bad at their jobs, but because Git doesn’t actively teach you its most powerful features. At GitKon 2025, our Senior Product Marketing Manager Jonathan Silva revealed 6 underused Git commands that solve the workflow problems developers face every day: botched rebases, lost commits, and merge conflict chaos. These aren’t advanced techniques.

For the last decade, the holy grail of DevOps has been Automation. We spent years writing Bash scripts to move files, Terraform to provision servers, and Ansible to configure them. And for a while, it felt like magic. But any seasoned engineer knows the dirty secret of automation: it is brittle. Automation is deterministic. It only does exactly what you tell it to do. It has no brain. It cannot reason.

You’ve done it. Your machine learning model is live in production. It’s serving predictions, powering features, and quietly doing its job. Dashboards are green. There are no errors in the logs. Nothing appears broken. And yet, something is wrong. Predictions are getting less reliable. Users are waiting a little longer for responses. Conversion rates are slipping. Trust is eroding, but no alert fires, no system crashes, and no one knows there’s a problem until the damage has been done.

Policy changes in Kubernetes are supposed to improve security, enforce standards, or optimize resource usage. But when a policy change triggers cascading pod failures across multiple namespaces, the investigation becomes a race to identify what changed before more workloads are affected.

Master the 2026 multi-cloud operating model. Bridge the complexity gap to enable autonomous AIOps, edge convergence, and shift-left security.