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T-Mobile SOS Outage: Incident Response Lessons

When more than 140,000 people reach for their phones at once and see nothing but the letters SOS, the topic of incident response stops being an abstract engineering concern and becomes something everyone feels. That is exactly what happened on the evening of July 27 into the morning of July 28, 2026, when a nationwide T-Mobile outage knocked huge numbers of devices into SOS only mode, cutting people off from regular calls, texts, and data.

How to Connect Cursor to CircleCI: AI-Powered CI/CD Debugging with MCP

Stop context-switching between your IDE and CI dashboard. This video shows you how to connect Cursor to CircleCI using the CircleCI MCP server so your AI agent can read pipeline failures, validate configs, and trigger builds without leaving your editor. In this demo, we introduce a bug, let CI catch it, and watch the agent diagnose and fix it autonomously through a full green pipeline. No manual log hunting required.

Mentors Don't Have to Be Just One Person

Mentorship doesn't have to come from one person — it can come from an entire community. This IT leader talks about following in his mentor's footsteps, speaking at events, and getting real support from Spiceworks forums without ever being made to feel less-than for asking questions. Watch the full IT Leadership Lab session.

Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark Episode 1: Fixing UI Slowness

Slow, unresponsive applications create digital friction that impacts employee productivity and generates unnecessary IT tickets. In Episode 1 of Eliminating Digital Friction with Nexthink Spark, see how Spark identifies UI slowness, pinpoints the root cause, and helps IT resolve issues faster.

Terraform Modules vs. Resources: When to Promote a Pattern

Terraform gives you two ways to express the same infrastructure. You can declare resources directly, or you can wrap them in a module and call that module with inputs. Both produce identical cloud objects. The choice is not about capability, it is about where you want the complexity to live and who you want to be responsible for it. Most teams get this decision wrong in one of two directions.

What is an AI sandbox? A developer's guide

An AI sandbox is an isolated environment where code from an AI coding agent runs without direct access to your machine or your production systems. If the agent runs a destructive command or a mistaken script, the damage stays contained inside the sandbox. Developers use AI sandboxing to let agents execute code freely while keeping the host and its credentials out of reach.