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What Are Containers? (And Why "It Works on My Machine" Finally Dies)

What are containers in DevOps—and why do they solve the classic “it works on my machine” problem? In this episode of Cloud Security in a Minute, Sysdig breaks down containers in simple terms: what they are, how they work, and why they’ve become the backbone of modern cloud applications. You’ll learn: Containers package everything an application needs—code, dependencies, and system tools—so it runs consistently anywhere: your laptop, the cloud, or at massive scale.

Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc on Datadog's origin, AI, and more | This Month in Datadog

Get an insider’s view of Datadog from the people who built it. On a special episode of This Month in Datadog, co-founders Olivier Pomel and Alexis Lê-Quôc sit down for a rare, in-depth look at the challenge that inspired them to build the Datadog platform, what the company is working on today, AI, and more. This Month in Datadog brings you the latest updates on our newest product features, announcements, resources, and events.

Aiven for ClickHouse 25.8 LTS: Vector Search GA, Projections, Correlated Subqueries, and Faster Queries

Vector Search GA & SQL Enhancements. Aiven for ClickHouse 25.8 is now available as an Early Availability. This Long-Term Support release introduces lightweight projections as secondary indexes, general availability of vector search with binary quantization, correlated subqueries for broader SQL compatibility, lightweight updates for MergeTree tables, and significant performance and data lakehouse improvements.

How to route incidents based on what their payload says

Every incident arrives with a payload, and that payload usually tells you far more than whether something broke. It points to which service is affected and how serious the issue looks. It also carries context about which customers are on the receiving end of that failure. The service name, severity, customer context — all of it can feed directly into routing decisions. This guide explores how to read those parts of the payload and use them to route incidents automatically.

Edging closer: the tech trends shaping digital ambitions now

Ahead of his participation in techUK’s Digital Transformation from the Edge to the Cloud event, we sit down with Pulsant CTO Mike Hoy to ask him how distributed cloud and edge are reshaping the digital ambitions of UK businesses. Q: So Mike, what are the main issues firms face in designing/redesigning their digital infrastructure in 2026?

LiteLLM Compromise: Securing AI Pipelines from PyPI Supply Chain Attacks | Harness Blog

On March 24, 2026, the AI open-source ecosystem was impacted by a critical supply chain attack involving the widely used Python package LiteLLM. Attackers compromised the LiteLLM PyPI distribution pipeline and published malicious versions (notably in the 1.82.7-1.82.8 range), embedding a multi-stage payload designed to steal credentials and execute remote code.

AI Deployment in Production: Orchestrate LLMs, RAG, Agents | Harness Blog

For the past few years, the narrative around Artificial Intelligence has been dominated by what I like to call the "magic box" illusion. We assumed that deploying AI simply meant passing a user’s question through an API key to a Large Language Model (LLM) and waiting for a brilliant answer.

Beyond the Queue: Modernizing Legacy Middleware with Apache Kafka 4.x

Apache Kafka 4.x eliminates the final barriers to legacy middleware modernization. With KRaft mode removing ZooKeeper dependency and native queue semantics bridging the gap, enterprises can finally transition from point-to-point messaging to event-driven architectures.