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Cycle's Hosted MCP Release Announcement

We are stoked to announce that we have released our very own hosted MCP that allows you to use natural language to interact with and control anything you have running on Cycle.io. Alexander Mattoni, CTO and co-founder of Cycle, shares a few scenarios where the MCP can be useful. With the MCP, Cycle users can communicate with the Cycle platform directly from their preferred AI tool. In minutes, users can provision a new server, deploy an application, or troubleshoot an issue directly from their AI assistant like Claude, Claude Code, ChatGPT or Codex.

Endpoint Management with AIDriven Automation

In just two minutes, learn how our AI-powered platform unifies control across Windows, Mac, Linux, Mobile, and even VR/XR headsets. Discover how to eliminate tedious tasks with automated patching, zero-touch onboarding, and self-healing capabilities—allowing your team to focus on strategy instead of firefighting. What you’ll see in this video: How to achieve full visibility across your entire environment. The benefits of risk-based patching and continuous compliance. Proactive user experience optimization powered by AI. How to reduce risk and scale IT efficiency on a single platform.

Monitor warehouse data quality beyond pipeline health

You get a Slack message from the VP of Sales: They have asked an AI agent connected to Snowflake for the past quarter’s revenue and the numbers look wrong. First, you verify the agent’s query and, when that looks fine, check the pipelines that populate the underlying table. All jobs completed, the data is recently refreshed. Then it’s time to check the logs for errors. Nothing.

Android belongs in your CI/CD pipeline

How on-demand Android environments turn validation into a repeatable pipeline stage In the first article, we looked at automation: how Android environments can be created and managed programmatically. In the second, we looked at scaling: how shared infrastructure can make those environments available to more developers, tests, and workloads. This third article looks at the next step: integrating those environments directly into CI/CD.

Dr. Cat Hicks on the Psychology of Software Teams

What happens when a software engineer who has put their entire identity into being the resident expert of an obscure technology or language with ten years of experience and who knows the codebase like the back of their hand now has to compete with AI? Psychologically speaking, according to Dr. Cat Hicks, author of The Psychology of Software Teams and founder of Catharsis, that's called identity threat, and it's a surefire way to feel unsafe. We were honored Dr.

OnlineOrNot updates from June through August 2026

It's been a while since I last updated you on what's new in OnlineOrNot. For the most part, I've continued making it useful for software teams: there's now an MCP server, I've improved the terraform provider significantly, and there's a new TypeScript SDK. You can also (finally?) monitor DNS/TCP with it.