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The technology town square
Where technology connects.
For people who buy, run and build enterprise technology. Techarda is an independent place to track enterprise technology, compare companies and bring practitioner evidence into your next decision. Reviews, Q&A and events are growing category by category.
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On the square right now
GitHub · How to continue a GitHub Copilot app session in VS CodeTigera · Meet Tigera at KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2026Grafana Labs · 6 improvements that make Grafana Assistant better at helping your workflowsNVIDIA · NVIDIA Runs Record Simulation of Fault-Tolerant Quantum Computing at Jülich Supercomputing CentreCloudflare · Introducing Clairic, a new System One class of extraction modelsSnowflake · Snowpipe Streaming Hits 41 GB/s Benchmark with Elastic ChannelsRapid7 · Your Next Insider Threat Won’t be Human: Securing AI Agents From the Outside inSolarWinds · AI For DBAs: Internals and Architecture of LLMs
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I work at a technology company
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What changed this week
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Where things are moving
When a story catches your eye, its category shows the wider picture: who’s active, what’s new this week and what people are asking. Pick one to compare the companies in it.
Cloud InfrastructureQuiet this weekDeveloper ToolsQuiet this weekContainers & KubernetesQuiet this weekSecurityQuiet this weekDevOps & Platform EngineeringQuiet this weekObservabilityQuiet this weekData & AnalyticsQuiet this weekAI Agents & AutomationQuiet this week
Topics coming up most this month:#AI agents#Generative AI#Vulnerabilities#GPUs#Observability#Lakehouse#CI/CD#Compliance#Identity#Backup & recovery
Companies in the news this month
Each profile brings together a company’s recent news, its products and what the community is asking about it.
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.
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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.
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How are you controlling observability costs without losing visibility?
Sampling, tiered retention, OpenTelemetry pipelines, switching vendors? What cut the bill the most?
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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.
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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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