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tigera

Calico Load Balancer: Simplifying Network Traffic Management with eBPF

Mar 21, 2026 By Aadhil Abdul Majeed In Tigera
Ever had a load balancer become the bottleneck in an on-prem Kubernetes cluster? You are not alone. Traditional hardware load balancers add cost, create coordination overhead, and can make scaling painful. A Kubernetes-native approach can overcome many of those challenges by pushing load balancing into the cluster data plane.
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Grafana Campfire - Release Pipelines - (Grafana Community Call - March 2026)

Mar 21, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
In this Campfire Community call, we'll be exploring Grafana's release pipelines - covering both our on-prem (public and private) artifact delivery and our Rolling Release Channels for building Grafana Cloud We'll walk through the fundamentals of how our pipelines work, including how ICs can patch branches and manage their own core Grafana releases, and where we're headed in the future. Plus much more!
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spike

How to set up Incident Alert Routing rules effectively

Mar 21, 2026 By Sreekar In Spike
When an incident triggers, the question is not just what broke but also how urgent it is and who on your team needs to respond. Alert Routing rules answer those questions automatically. You define the conditions once and the right response follows every time an incident triggers. Every Alert Routing rule does one or more of these three things: Three conditions drive all of it: incident payload, time of occurrence, and frequency.
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fabrix

The AI Readiness Paradox: The Agentic Value Gap And The Agentic Operational Model

Mar 20, 2026 By Shailesh Manjrekar In Fabrix
The disconnect between enterprise confidence and AI capability is real. MIT reports fewer than 5% of enterprises have achieved measurable ROI from AI, yet Cisco claims 13% feel ready. The gap isn’t about AI technology—it’s about organizational rigidity and change management. More importantly, most studies focus on business intelligence rather than operational use cases, which are far less risky and more measurable.
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manageengine

Applications Manager now officially supports Podman monitoring!

Mar 20, 2026 By Sujitha Paduchuri In ManageEngine
As organizations shift away from traditional container engines to embrace Podman’s rootless and daemon-less design, visibility often becomes a challenge. Because Podman doesn't rely on a central background service, traditional monitoring tools can leave you in the dark. Applications Manager's new Podman monitoring feature bridges that gap, giving you total visibility into your Podman workloads without compromising the security model you worked so hard to build.
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speedscale

The Hidden AI Bill: Why Non-Prod LLM Costs Spiral

Mar 20, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Most teams know they are spending money on AI in production. Far fewer realize how much they are spending outside production. It’s easy to get lost as you evaluate which model has the best responses, is fast enough, and cheap enough to run in production. That is because the AI bill usually shows up as a giant blob. It is easy to see the total.
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dotcom-monitor

API Status Monitoring: Real-Time Health & Uptime Tracking

Mar 20, 2026 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
APIs sit at the center of modern digital infrastructure. Mobile applications, SaaS platforms, microservices, and third party integrations all depend on APIs to exchange data and execute business logic in real time. When an API becomes unavailable, slows down, or returns incorrect data, users feel it immediately. Transactions fail. Dashboards stop updating. Logins break. Revenue and trust are affected within minutes.
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Breaking the Mold: Marc Umstead's Journey from Solopreneur to Strategic Leader

Mar 20, 2026 By N-able In N-able
From Break/Fix to Workflow-First MSP: Mark’s Plus One Growth Story Mark joins host Chris Massey on Now That’s IT: Stories of MSP Success to share how his focus on solving workflow problems—starting at age 15 digitizing his dad’s paper-based processes—shaped his career and the growth of Plus One. He describes taking a $10,000 loan at 23 to buy a small computer repair shop, navigating early solo “survival mode,” and evolving from break/fix into an MSP with recurring revenue.
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