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What "Open Source" actually means in 2026

What does "Open Source" really mean in the age of AI? In the conclusion of her session at Civo Navigate India, OpenUK CEO Amanda Brock shares a fundamental truth for the global tech community. True openness is not about being local; it's about global collaboration and ensuring that technology is accessible for any purpose, without friction. As we build the next decade of innovation, the goal is to build better, together, across the planet.

Why my Azure bill keeps spiking (and how to fix it)

Noticed a sudden spike in your Azure bill? Unexpected Azure cost increases are often caused by hidden usage, overprovisioned resources, scaling changes, or limited cost visibility. In this video, we explain why Azure costs spike, how to identify Azure cost anomalies early, and what steps you can take to prevent budget surprises. Take control of your Azure spend with smarter, proactive cost management.

Get Kafka-Nated Bonus Episode: Viktor's Kafka Journey

In this episode, we sit down with Viktor Somogyi-Vass, a veteran of the Kafka ecosystem who recently joined Aiven after nearly a decade at Cloudera. Viktor shares his journey from becoming an Apache Kafka Committer to tackling the most complex challenges in modern cloud-native streaming. We dive deep into the architectural shift from traditional data centers to the cloud, exploring how Diskless Kafka (Disaggregated Storage) is slashing costs and why KIP-1134 is the next frontier for true multi-tenancy.

Investigate Issues in Slack: Grafana Cloud Slack App with AI

The Grafana Cloud app for Slack brings observability and incident response closer to where you and your teams already collaborate Ask questions about system health, alerts, on-call schedules, and Grafana Cloud features; manage incidents and alerts; and collaborate with full context.

Perspectives from the Edge: Data Sovereignty with KPMG

Data sovereignty isn’t a checkbox – it’s now a board-level priority. Data sovereignty is everywhere right now, but for many organisations, it still feels abstract. In this first episode of Perspectives from the Edge, Assad Noori, Head of Digital Infrastructure Advisory for the UK at KPMG, speaks with Pulsant's Wendy Shearer, about why sovereignty has become a board-level issue, how AI and hybrid infrastructure are reshaping long-held assumptions, and why decisions about where data lives, moves, and is accessed now carry far wider implications than most organisations expect.

dotConnect Update: .NET 10 Support, OAuth Integration & Faster Batch Updates

The latest dotConnect release is here, bringing major improvements in performance, security, and cloud connectivity for.NET developers. In this video, we walk through the most important updates: This release is designed for developers who rely on high-performance, secure, and dependable data connectivity in modern.NET environments.

Same Work, More Windows: Why AI Isn't Paying Off Yet (w/ Anthony Firmin)

In the first episode of a NEW ERA for the DEX Show, Tom (that's right, just Tom ) welcomes back AI and digital transformation leader Anthony Firmin to unpack the reality of enterprise AI adoption. Drawing on hard-won, real-world experience, Anthony explores why so many organisations are stuck in the “messy middle” of AI, where usage rises but value doesn’t. The conversation digs into trust, experience debt, shallow versus deep AI, and why “same work, more windows” is an early warning sign leaders ignore at their peril. It’s a grounded, human-centred look at what it really takes to make AI improve work, not just change it.