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Certificate monitoring with TLS, chain, and post-quantum readiness

Most customers start CertKit with SSL host monitoring. On day one, you point CertKit at the systems you already run and get every certificate and when it expires. You start with confidence that you have everything under control. Then, you automate, letting CertKit take over the certificates as they need to be renewed. Each renewal is the last time you ever have to worry about that certificate.

pgvector for RAG: When you don't need a dedicated vector database

Dedicated vector databases have become such a standard part of the RAG conversation that teams often add one before they have proved they need it. According to studies, over 70% of companies using LLMs are using vector databases and RAG to customize their models. That shows how quickly the pattern has become normal. However, it does not mean every RAG application needs a separate retrieval system. If your application already runs on PostgreSQL, pgvector may be enough.

Restoring Compliance After Missed SAP Patch Cycles

Avantra restores SAP compliance after missed patch cycles by measuring the real gap on every system, automating the catch-up in risk order, and monitoring continuously afterward. A missed cycle can leave SAP operations out of compliance or exposed to documented vulnerabilities, and until each system is assessed, the impact is unknown. Getting “back to good” requires three steps: The patching itself is rarely the hard part.
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Raygun APM Agent 3.1: async traces that stay with the right request

Raygun APM Agent 3.1 introduces more accurate asynchronous request tracing for Windows, Linux, and Azure App Service. Version 3.0 rebuilt the foundation of the Agent, profiler, installers, and release pipeline. Version 3.1 builds on that work with a focused improvement for ASP.NET Core: automatic request correlation that follows asynchronous execution without requiring developers to instrument their application. The result is a more accurate trace, with less duplication and a clearer view of the work performed for each web request.

How to Say No: Protecting Your Bandwidth

In IT, you’re pulled in a hundred different directions, sometimes those directions completely conflicting others. And when you finally fix one problem, another pops up in its place, like a technological whack-a-mole. So what do you do if you find yourself stuck in a tough spot? Your first inclination may be to fix the problem. After all, you’re a fixer by nature, so you should be able to take care of it all… right?

Automated Medical Answering Services: Cost and Setup Guide

After-hours calls can create missed messages and send urgent issues to the wrong clinician. For private medical practices, that risk grows when call answering and on-call escalation rely on the same loosely defined workflow. Answering service receives an inbound call, captures information, and categorizes the request. On-call routing identifies the responsible clinician, delivers the message, and escalates it when the clinician does not respond.

How to Filter and Reduce AI Agent Telemetry with OpenTelemetry & Bindplane

Why is the telemetry AI agents generate so intimidating? If you turn on Claude Code’s internal telemetry it’ll throw a wall of text at you. And, it’s very expensive to store. But, the bigger issue is that you can’t make sense of it. Luckily it’s all OpenTelemetry native. That means you can configure it to send, transform, and store what you really need. Which raises the only question that matters. What do you actually need?

Canada Data Center Development: Measuring Responsible AI Growth

Western Canada is becoming a live test of whether sovereign AI capacity can be built responsibly at scale, and the answer will depend less on what operators promise than on what they can measure and show. Meta’s planned C$13-billion Alberta data center, BCE’s expansion of its Saskatchewan project to a 1.2-GW hub, and the federal Responsible Data Centre Development Principles all point to the same requirement: operational transparency that regulators, utilities, and communities can verify.