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How the Right Business Essentials Support Long-Term Efficiency

How the Right Business Essentials Support Long-Term Efficiency

Jan 16, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Running a business smoothly depends on many small details. One of the most important things is having the right supplies to do daily work. If people don't have what they need, tasks slow down, and problems pile up. And efficiency - the ability to get things done well and on time - suffers. Well, it's worth noting that workplace essentials aren't glamorous. They're not flashy. But they are the foundation of daily operations. When these basics are reliable, teams can focus on real work instead of scrambling for tools or replacing worn-out items.
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EventSentry v6: Azure Logs, HEC, Sigma, Log Signing & More

Jan 15, 2026 By ingmar.koecher In EventSentry
Even though the shift to the cloud has slowed recently as many businesses are moving certain workloads back on-premise, Microsoft Exchange remains one cloud-based service that most organizations continue to embrace – despite its frequent outages. This doesn’t come as a surprise, as Microsoft has successfully devolved on-prem Exchange Server – the only viable alternative – into an unfriendly dragon that even experienced sysadmins won’t touch with a 10 ft pole.
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Galileo

Observability Pricing Models: How to Evaluate Cost, Value, and Predictability

Jan 15, 2026 By Kristy Slimmer In Galileo
Observability pricing often seems reasonable at the outset, but many organizations discover their real complexity only as environments scale and usage patterns change. As environments grow more complex and hybrid by default, many organizations struggle with rising costs, fragmented tools, and pricing models that complicate cost predictability and long-term planning.
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speedscale

The CES Hangover: 3 Expensive Hardware Fails That Were Actually Software Problems

Jan 15, 2026 By Alan Mon In Speedscale
The dust has settled on Las Vegas. We saw transparent TVs, cars that drive sideways, and enough “AI-powered” toothbrushes to confuse a dentist. CES is incredible at selling the dream of hardware. The demos are slick, the lighting is perfect, and everything works on the showroom floor. But as engineers, we know the dirty secret of CES: The hardware is the easy part.
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virtualmetric

Agentless First, Agents When Needed: A Hybrid Approach to Security Telemetry

Jan 15, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Security data collection has become a first-class architectural concern for modern SOCs. Once collection is treated as a dedicated layer, separate from analytics and detection, the next question becomes practical: how should telemetry be collected in a way that aligns with this architecture? In the previous article, we examined why this shift occurred. Here, we focus on how different collection models (agent-based, agentless, and hybrid) fit into modern security data collection architectures.
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tigera

Kubernetes Networking at Scale: From Tool Sprawl to a Unified Solution

Jan 15, 2026 By Aadhil Abdul Majeed In Tigera
As Kubernetes platforms scale, one part of the system consistently resists standardization and predictability: networking. While compute and storage have largely matured into predictable, operationally stable subsystems, networking remains a primary source of complexity and operational risk This complexity is not the result of missing features or immature technology.
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canonical

Canonical Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available on AWS European Sovereign Cloud

Jan 15, 2026 By Canonical In Canonical
January 15, 2026 – Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu and provider of open source security, support, and services, announced today that it is a launch partner for the AWS European Sovereign Cloud, a new independent cloud for Europe, with Ubuntu and Ubuntu Pro now available. Canonical’s Ubuntu Pro delivers a securely designed, stable, and enterprise-ready foundation for open source innovation while providing customers with the same security, availability, and performance they expect from AWS.
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honeycomb

"You Had One Job": Why Twenty Years of DevOps Has Failed to Do it

Jan 15, 2026 By Charity Majors In Honeycomb
Let’s start with a question. What is DevOps all about? I’ll tell you my answer. In retrospect, I think the entire DevOps movement was a mighty, twenty year battle to achieve one thing: a single feedback loop connecting devs with prod. On those grounds, it failed. Not because software engineers weren’t good at their jobs, or didn’t care enough. It failed because the technology wasn’t good enough.
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gitkraken

GitKraken Desktop 11.8: Visibility Where It Matters, Undo When It Doesn't

Jan 15, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
Some releases break new ground. Others clear the path. GitKraken Desktop 11.8 does both. You know that moment when you’re three commits deep into an interactive rebase and realize you’ve made a terrible mistake? Or when you’re trying to explain what changed on a feature branch, but it means manually selecting 47 commits? Or when you just want to preview a README without opening another app?
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