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My interview guest is Kristiyan Ivanov creator of BetterDB. In this conversation we talk about building tools to observe Valkey and Redis as well as AI Observability, the Valkey Community and More! Learn more about AIVEN DATA PLATFORM The Aiven Platform is more than a collection of open source services for streaming, storing and analyzing data. The platform ensures that all services run reliably and securely in the clouds of your choice, are observable, and can easily be integrated with each other and with external 3rd party tools.

Our Director of Engineering on why watching an agent's raw text log doesn't work, and why Kepler now shows you a graph instead.

When people say "document everything," they don't mean literally everything — they mean document what matters. Nobody needs to know the exact kernel version on a server build years from now. What they need is the process: how to get there again, step by step. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session — linked above.

Your infrastructure lives everywhere. Your view of it shouldn't. Civo CTO Dinesh Majrekar gives the first look at the new Civo dashboard. It's built around one idea: however many regions, clusters or environments you run, managing them should feel like one cloud. Civo makes complexity a thing of the past.

What does it take to scale AI and automation in IT? Nick Dimmock, Co-Founder and CEO of TekWurx, joins Agents of IT to discuss trusted data, process maturity, governance, and building confidence in automation.

What does it take to make AI and automation actually work in enterprise IT? In this episode of Agents of IT, Resolve’s Zach Austin sits down with Nick Dimmock, Co-Founder and CEO of TechWorks, to discuss how IT automation is evolving, why trusted data matters, and what organizations need to build before AI can deliver meaningful business outcomes.

Telemetry Talks episode 8 is here We sat down with OTel maintainers to talk about the future of the community, GenAI semantic conventions, contributing beyond code, OTel in Practice, and what they’re currently building, writing, organizing, and experimenting with across the CloudNative and OpenSource ecosystem. A conversation about where OTel is today and what comes next. Playlist Resources for Further Learning.

In the September edition of the Kubernetes Monitoring Helm chart office hours, we discuss the version 4.4 and 4.5 releases, the upcoming 4.6 feature release, and the next 5.0 major release.

Azure architecture diagrams go out of date fast, and management-plane data alone misses the runtime connections that matter most. In v5.4, diagrams move to their own Diagrams tab in Azure Documenter. Alongside the enhanced network and workload diagrams, there is a new Resource Visualizer diagram. Scope it by subscription and resource group, or write your own custom Azure Resource Graph query to define exactly which resources to include.

"Our Azure bill went up 20% last month." Without context, finance only sees a rising cost. Unit economics gives them the full picture. Turbo360 lets you overlay business KPIs on your Azure spend. Track units like orders, active users, document views, or monthly recurring revenue alongside cost, and see your cost per unit month over month. Now the conversation becomes: "Orders went up 150% and our cost per order came down." That is a story about efficiency, not overspend.