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How to Give a Better Presentation

The art of giving a presentation well can prove to be invaluable at work. In the modern age, people tend to see so many presentations on a daily basis, but they instinctively know which ones have been delivered well and which ones have significant room for improvement. There are plenty of ways that you have available to give better presentations, and the following blog post will present a broad overview of just some of the main options that you have in front of you. Ultimately, it all comes down to being properly prepared, knowing your audience and working on your own individual set of skills.

Bulletproof strategies against 6 security incident types

Every 11 seconds, a business falls victim to a cyberattack. The financial impact is staggering: $10.5 trillion in annual damages predicted in 2025. But beyond the immediate costs, security incidents can permanently damage your reputation, destroy customer trust, and even force your company to close its doors. What's particularly alarming is how unprepared most organizations are.

DevOps project management: A comprehensive guide for startups

DevOps teams in startups face a unique challenge: delivering reliable systems with limited resources while keeping pace with rapid growth and change. But search for "DevOps project management," and you'll find yourself drowning in enterprise frameworks, complex methodologies, and expensive tools that seem disconnected from startup realities. It's hard to know which approaches actually work when you're operating with constraints on time, budget, and personnel.

Continuous testing in DevOps: The missing piece for reliable systems

Reliable, high-performing systems are the lifeblood of modern digital businesses. But it's hard to know where to start, especially when you're a startup with limited resources and a small DevOps or SRE team. Fortunately, effective continuous testing doesn't have to be overly complicated. In this guide, we'll break down the essential components of continuous testing in DevOps, with special attention to the often-overlooked monitoring aspect that can make or break your testing strategy.
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How to Configure OpenTelemetry as an Agent with the Carbon Exporter

If you're already using OpenTelemetry for tracing and logs, adding otelcol-contrib as an agent for system metrics just makes sense. It keeps everything in the same pipeline, so you're not juggling multiple monitoring tools or dealing with inconsistent data formats. Plus, with built-in support for host metrics, custom processing, and direct exports to Graphite, it's a solid way to ship performance data without extra overhead. In this article, we'll detail how to install the OpenTelemetry Collector Contrib distribution, and configure it to export system performance metrics to a Graphite datasource.

Unlock Cheaper & Faster AI Testing: Mocking Claude and MCP

Generative AI is quickly becoming ubiquitous in the software development space, with tools like Anthropic’s Claude offering rapid methodologies for code iteration, testing, and deployment. As new solutions, such as MCP (Model Context Protocol), are created to make integration more seamless, enterprises are adopting these AI solutions to optimize their development processes, a familiar challenge repeatedly arises: cost.
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Fabrix.ai Demo Day Showcases Agentic Platform and AGNTCY Collective Ecosystem Alliance

Fabrix.ai, a pioneer in enterprise-ready agentic AI solutions, successfully hosted its highly anticipated Agentic AI Demo Day yesterday, bringing together IT operations, NOC operations, and AI operations professionals for a comprehensive showcase of its Purpose-built Agentic AI Operational Intelligence Platform.

Introducing the Causely data source plugin for Grafana

Endre Sara is a Co-Founder of Causely, where he’s building a causal reasoning platform to continuously assure service reliability and eliminate human troubleshooting. Previously, Endre was VP of Advanced Engineering at Turbonomic and a VP at Goldman Sachs. At Causely, we believe observability tools shouldn’t just collect more data—they should enable you to understand it.