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Why Monitoring Matters for Modern Hosting Platforms

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.

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

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?

Sentry acquires XcodeBuildMCP

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.

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

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.

Investigate Issues in Slack: Grafana Cloud Slack App with AI

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.

Perspectives from the Edge: Data Sovereignty with KPMG

Data sovereignty isn’t a checkbox – it’s now a board-level priority. Data sovereignty is everywhere right now, but for many organisations, it still feels abstract. In this first episode of Perspectives from the Edge, Assad Noori, Head of Digital Infrastructure Advisory for the UK at KPMG, speaks with Pulsant's Wendy Shearer, about why sovereignty has become a board-level issue, how AI and hybrid infrastructure are reshaping long-held assumptions, and why decisions about where data lives, moves, and is accessed now carry far wider implications than most organisations expect.