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Databricks · Announcing Workday Data Connect federation in Unity CatalogSolo.io · Reference architecture cross-cluster routing using API gateways and service mesh | Solo.ioSierra · Caller ID in the age of agentsGitHub · How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigateSalesforce · Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of SlackGrafana Labs · Take Grafana Labs' 5th annual Observability SurveyStarburst · The Plane, Not the FleetDynatrace · Forrester study models 466% ROI from unified observability with Dynatrace
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Techarda
OriginalAugust 2026 in enterprise technology: agents meet governance, inference M&A and trust as the attack surface
August 2026 put guardrails around AI agents, from enterprise auth for MCP to data isolation at the database. Meanwhile AMD bought into inference, attackers exploited trust, and VMware alternatives started guaranteeing migration timelines.
Techarda
OriginalJuly 2026 in enterprise technology: sovereign AI, inference money and the VMware exit
July 2026 was about control and capital: enterprises demanded say over where AI runs, investors poured money into inference hardware, SASE consolidation kept growing, and more service providers mapped their route off VMware.
Databricks
Data & Analytics
Announcing Workday Data Connect federation in Unity Catalog
We're excited to announce the publicly available Beta of the Workday Data Connect federation connector for Unity Catalog...
Solo.io
Containers & Kubernetes
Reference architecture cross-cluster routing using API gateways and service mesh | Solo.io
Learn how Gloo Platform, an API gateway and service mesh platform, helps simplify management of multi-cluster Kubernetes environments with Istio, Envoy, and Cilium.
Sierra
AI Agents & Automation
Caller ID in the age of agents
Introducing fleming-1, Sierra’s own model for detecting when the caller on a phone call is another agent.
GitHub
Developer Tools
How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate
As we kick off Cybersecurity Awareness Month, the GitHub Bug Bounty team spotlights @vaib25vicky, exploring their methodology, techniques, and experiences hacking on GitHub. The post How one bug bounty researcher chooses the features they investigate appeared first on The GitHub Blog .
Salesforce
AI Agents & Automation
Marc Benioff on the AI boom, SaaSpocalypse, and future of Slack
Grafana Labs
Original researchObservability
Take Grafana Labs' 5th annual Observability Survey
Over the past year, "agentic" has gone from an emerging buzzword to an integral part of worklife for many engineers, and that's just scratching the surface on all that's changed. With so much upheaval, there's never been a better time to capture the pulse of the industry, which is why we want you to take Grafana Labs' fifth annual Observability Survey . We're asking the questions you're probably…
Starburst
Data & Analytics
The Plane, Not the Fleet
Imagine you are an engineer on call, looking at a failed CI run at 2am …
Where things are moving
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Developer Tools48 new this weekCloud Infrastructure29 new this weekContainers & Kubernetes32 new this weekSecurity22 new this weekObservability27 new this weekEnterprise Applications22 new this weekDevOps & Platform Engineering15 new this weekAI Agents & Automation18 new this week
Topics coming up most this month:#AI agents#Observability#Generative AI#Vulnerabilities#Lakehouse#CI/CD#Compliance#Kubernetes#Backup & recovery#GPUs
Companies in the news this month
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What practitioners are asking
News tells you what a company says. The community is where people who’ve run the thing say what happened. It’s early, so plenty of these questions are still waiting for a first answer, and yours could be it.
New
Datadog vs Grafana stack vs OpenTelemetry + open source
If you have run more than one, compare them on cost at your scale, time to value and on-call experience.
New
How are you controlling observability costs without losing visibility?
Sampling, tiered retention, OpenTelemetry pipelines, switching vendors? What cut the bill the most?
New
Have AI coding assistants changed how you review code?
More PRs, bigger PRs, new review checklists? Share what changed in your process and quality metrics.
New
How are you handling semantic layers and metric definitions across BI tools?
dbt semantic layer, a headless BI layer, or definitions living in each dashboard tool? What has reduced the “two numbers for revenue” problem for you?
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How many Kubernetes clusters do you run, and how do you keep upgrades sane?
Fleet size, managed vs self-managed, and the tooling that keeps version upgrades from becoming a quarterly fire drill.
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