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EU AI Act: what changes in August 2025 and how to prepare

‍ On August 2, 2025, a key part of the EU AI Act comes into force. It has serious implications for how you manage incidents related to artificial intelligence. ‍ While the full regulation will not apply until 2026, new obligations for providers of general-purpose AI (GPAI) models begin this summer. If you are building or deploying AI-powered services in Europe, the clock is ticking.

Jaeger Monitoring: Essential Metrics and Alerting for Production Tracing Systems

Your Jaeger setup is running. Traces are coming in, and the UI is helping you spot slow services or debug broken flows. But just like any part of your observability stack, Jaeger needs some basic monitoring to stay reliable. If the collector starts queueing spans or the agent runs out of buffer, it can lead to dropped traces, sometimes without any obvious sign in the UI. This blog focuses on the operational side of Jaeger.

SLF4J and Log4j - Understanding the Differences

Good logging isn’t optional when building Java applications—it’s critical. Logs are often the first place we turn to when something breaks and are essential for performance tuning, security audits, and long-term maintainability. Two names come up in the Java logging conversation: Simple Logging Facade for Java (SLF4J) and Log for Java (Log4j). They sound similar and often work together, but they serve distinct roles.

Explore the NiCE MariaDB Management Pack in Action2025Q3

If you’re running critical MariaDB workloads and need reliable, performance-focused monitoring, this session is for you. You’ll get a live walkthrough of the Management Pack, learn how it integrates seamlessly into SCOM, and explore real-world use cases to improve your database monitoring strategy.

Mastering Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Ivanti Neurons

Mastering Risk-Based Vulnerability Management with Ivanti Neurons Ivanti Neurons enhances risk-based vulnerability management by focusing on aggregation prioritization. It collects data from various sources, integrates with over 70 IT service management systems, and emphasizes the importance of contextual risk assessment. A prioritization dashboard helps security teams address critical findings, while automation through playbooks streamlines the remediation process. The content also covers scoring metrics and a knowledge base for trending vulnerabilities.

Organize It All: Sync Alloy Navigator With Outlook and Other Calendars

Struggling to manage work tasks, meetings, and personal events across multiple calendars and apps? Sync Alloy Navigator with your corporate Outlook and add your personal Google or Apple calendars to organize both work and life. With Alloy Navigator, you can easily track tickets, IT assets, meetings, appointments—all in one place. Stay organized Avoid conflicts and double-bookings Plan better Keep your schedule under control.

The strategic art of build vs. buy in software delivery ft. Tara Hernandez of MongoDB

Rob Zuber sits down with Tara Hernandez, VP of Developer Productivity at MongoDB and former Netscape engineer who helped create early continuous integration systems, to explore strategic frameworks for build vs. buy decisions in modern software delivery.

Librato on Heroku is Going Away and Hosted Graphite Is the Better Next Step

Librato (a SolarWinds product) is being sunsetted summer of 2025, and that directly affects Heroku teams who’ve relied on the Librato add-on for “good enough” visibility into dynos, routers, and Postgres. If you’re in that group, you’ll need a replacement monitoring add-on that keeps you covered on Heroku and lets you grow beyond it without re-architecting how you ship metrics.

What Is a Rapid Response Team (RRT) in Hospitals? Why Do They Matter?

Imagine you’re working on a hospital floor when suddenly a patient’s condition starts to deteriorate. What happens next can mean the difference between life and death. That’s where a Rapid Response Team (RRT) steps in: a specially trained group of healthcare professionals who respond quickly to patients showing early signs of crisis to prevent emergencies like cardiac arrest or respiratory failure. But how common are these teams? What do they really do day-to-day?