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Laser Cutting Acrylic vs CNC Machining: Which Method Is Better?

If you work with acrylic sheets, you may be wondering whether a laser cutter or CNC router is the better choice. Both machines can cut acrylic, but they work best for different applications. A CNC router is useful for deep cuts, 3D carving, and heavy machining. A CO2 laser cutter is often the better option for acrylic signs, displays, lettering, decorations, and other 2D sheet products. So, which one should you choose?

Obkio's Status Overview Widget: Know What's Wrong and Where, Instantly

Obkio is making improvements to its network performance monitoring and observability solution, aimed at helping users of every expertise level interpret their data more efficiently. That work isn't just about telling users something is wrong. It's about diagnosing the issue for them. And a big part of that is telling them where the issue is happening, so they know exactly where to direct their troubleshooting effort instead of guessing. The Status Overview widget solves this.

Inside the Live Launch: What We Showed for GitKraken Insights for Developers and Kepler

We hosted a live launch preview, “Level Up Your Agentic Workflow,” to introduce two things at once: GitKraken Insights for Developers and Kepler. Jeremy Castile, our VP of Developer Research, opened with research on how teams are actually using AI agents today. If you want the full breakdown of that data, including the adoption numbers and the gap between feeling faster and proving it, we published it separately in State of AI in Engineering 2026: The Proof Gap.

You don't know what your model is going to do when you tell it what to do.

Give a model permission to act on your computer and you're trusting it will behave the way you expect. It might not. In this clip from our Braintrust conversation, Adam Berman, engineering leader at Semgrep, breaks down why a backdoored model is a different threat model than backdoored software. You can't fuzz-test your way to finding it, and you often can't detect it until it's already acting the way it shouldn't.

Minga's developers point AI tools at their own infrastructure

Matt Zytaruk, VP of Technology at Minga, on what changed once his developers could point their AI tools at their own infrastructure. Minga checks in 1.5 million students across the eastern seaboard every school morning. They run that platform on Control Plane, which gives their team an MCP server, a CLI, and Terraform-native resources — so a developer can investigate an issue and generate the code for the change without waiting on anyone.

Alert fatigue, AI triage, and incidents: Lessons from observability experts at Cyera, PlayHQ & NAB

Observability looks perfect in a slide deck – in practice, it's messier. In this panel, engineering leaders from Cyara, PlayHQ, and National Australia Bank share what really happened when they scaled observability: unexpected cloud bills, alert fatigue, a weekend database outage caught by an AI-assisted triage agent, and a vendor dispute settled by a single chart. They also cover moving beyond legacy tooling, using AI to close the PromQL skills gap, and what's next – from agentic SDLC integration to continuous profiling. Real stories, real numbers, real lessons.