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The VM Boom For AI Agents | David Crawshaw Co-Founder & CEO, exe.dev

Sep 8, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
What happens when AI agents stop simply answering questions and start using computers of their own? It could create an entirely new boom in virtual machines. In this episode of Uplink, David Crawshaw, Co-Founder and CEO of exe.dev, joins host Michael Reid to explore the infrastructure behind the rapidly emerging world of AI agents. As agents become capable of writing code, running applications, operating tools, maintaining state, and working independently, they need more than access to an AI model. They need computing environments where they can actually get work done.
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How Smart Office Technology Is Changing the Modern Workplace

How Smart Office Technology Is Changing the Modern Workplace

Sep 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The modern workplace is no longer defined by desks, conference rooms and a reliable Wi-Fi connection. As organizations adopt hybrid work, flexible office layouts and increasingly connected tools, the traditional workplace is struggling to keep up. Employees expect meeting rooms that are easy to use, flexible spaces that adapt to changing needs and technology that supports both in-person and remote collaboration.
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How Observability and Real-Time Data Can Improve Warehouse Operations

How Observability and Real-Time Data Can Improve Warehouse Operations

Sep 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Warehouse operations generate a constant stream of information. Goods are received, inventory moves between locations, orders enter picking workflows, stock levels change, and shipments leave the facility. When these activities are managed through disconnected systems or delayed manual updates, managers can struggle to understand what is actually happening on the warehouse floor.
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How Azure Fundamentals Can Strengthen Your Cloud and Digital Technology Skills

How Azure Fundamentals Can Strengthen Your Cloud and Digital Technology Skills

Sep 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Many people encounter AZ-900 (Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals) as a checkbox and never ask what it teaches them beyond Microsoft Azure. The more useful question is whether a fundamentals-level credential can build digital skills that remain relevant after the exam or whether it amounts to little more than a badge.
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Can You Really Earn Crypto for Free? Faucets, Rewards, and the Costs Behind Them

Can You Really Earn Crypto for Free? Faucets, Rewards, and the Costs Behind Them

Sep 8, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Crypto faucets and reward platforms have existed for years, but the idea of "free crypto" still deserves a closer look. Sites such as cointiply.promo cover services where users can earn small crypto rewards through faucet claims, surveys, offerwalls, ads, referrals, and other activities. These platforms can distribute genuine rewards, yet users rarely receive something for nothing. They usually exchange time, attention, personal data, or participation for a small payment.
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manageengine

The rise of autonomous digital operations

Sep 7, 2026 By Sangavi D In ManageEngine
Monitoring has come a long way. Your team has dashboards, alerts, and automation that would've looked like magic a decade ago. Most days, things just work. But underneath all that tooling, a lot of the actual work still happens manually. An alert fires, and you pull the page-load metric from one tool, the user session logs from another, the backend trace from a third, and line them up until the story makes sense. Ten minutes, maybe fifteen pass, then you are able to fix it and move on.
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pagerly

Slow Degradation Incident Response: The 7 Hour Ramp

Sep 7, 2026 By Falit Jain In Pagerly
At about 2 a.m. Eastern on Sunday, September 6, 2026, reports that Google services were failing started trickling into Downdetector. They did not spike. They climbed. By roughly 9 a.m. the volume was running about ten times higher than normal, with users saying that Google Search, Gmail, YouTube and YouTube TV were failing to load. That is a seven hour ramp, and it is the single hardest incident shape for an on-call team to catch.
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control plane

Top 10 Heroku Alternatives

Sep 7, 2026 By Nathan McNeill In Control Plane
Heroku is not shutting down. On February 6, 2026, Heroku CPO Nitin T Bhat announced that the platform was moving to a sustaining engineering model: new feature development has stopped, but Heroku remains actively supported and production-ready. There is no announced EOL date or migration deadline, existing apps can keep running, credit-card customers can continue using the service, and existing Enterprise customers can renew. What changed is the roadmap, not immediate availability.
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squared up

I use Claude every day. I still build dashboards in SquaredUp

Sep 7, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
If you've looked at SquaredUp and thought "I don't need this, I'll just use Claude", I understand completely. I've thought it too. Here's what changed my mind. I use Claude constantly. I've also spent the last few months building the parts of SquaredUp that let it in: our MCP server, the object graph and correlation, a stack of plugins. So this isn't a dashboard vendor being sniffy about AI. I've watched Claude pull from several sources and produce something genuinely useful in under a minute.
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