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

Feb 11, 2026 By Aiven In Aiven
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.
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What is RDMA?

Feb 11, 2026 By Benjamin Ryzman In Canonical
Modern data centres are hitting a wall that faster CPUs alone cannot fix. As workloads scale out and latency budgets shrink, the impact of moving data between servers is starting to become the most significant factor in overall performance. Remote Direct Memory Access, or RDMA, is one of the technologies reshaping how that data moves, and it forces a rethink of some long-held assumptions in data centre networking. This article is the first in a short series.
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Why Monitoring Matters for Modern Hosting Platforms

Feb 11, 2026 By Connor James In AppSignal
With all the discussion in the dev community lately about changes made at Heroku, we wanted to use this moment to talk about PaaS (Platform as a Service) providers and how AppSignal can be a vital tool to ensure you're using your app's hosts for everything from optimal performance to lower usage bills.
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sematext

OpenTelemetry in Production: Design for Order, High Signal, Low Noise, and Survival

Feb 11, 2026 By Sematext In Sematext
A lot of talk around OpenTelemetry has to do with instrumentation, especially auto-instrumentation, about OTel being vendor neutral, being open and a defacto standard. But how you use the final output of OTel is what makes business difference. In other words, how do you use it to make your life as an SRE/DevOps/biz person easier? How do you have to set things up to truly solve production issues faster?
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sentry

Sentry acquires XcodeBuildMCP

Feb 11, 2026 By Cameron Cooke In Sentry
Today we're announcing that Sentry has acquired XcodeBuildMCP, an open source MCP server that gives AI agents the ability to build, test, and debug native iOS and macOS apps. XcodeBuildMCP has become a go-to tool for agentic Apple-platform development, with more than 4,000 GitHub stars and an active community. It unlocks the full developer loop: build, run, debug, interact, and verify, allowing users to stay in their preferred agentic development environment.
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coralogix

Agent vs Assistant: The key distinction between Olly and the competition

Feb 11, 2026 By Chris Cooney In Coralogix
The market is saturated with agents and assistants, making it difficult to tell them apart. However, the difference between these two approaches is significant. They offer radically distinct levels of impact, reflecting major differences in both their technical complexity and the quality of their inferences. Let’s figure out the distinction.
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Investigate Issues in Slack: Grafana Cloud Slack App with AI

Feb 11, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
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.
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