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DevOps & Platform EngineeringWhy it matters

Secure AI agents with HashiCorp Boundary

Enable AI agents to securely access your resources while operating within enterprise identity, access, and audit controls.

Why it matters, from the Techarda editors: Most agent pilots still run on shared service credentials. Putting agents behind the same identity, session and audit controls as people is the pattern security teams will ask for before agents touch production.

HashiCorp·via HashiCorp Blog
SecurityWhy it matters

Threat Actors Use Google Ads To Target Ledger Users

In August 2026, Zscaler ThreatLabz analyzed a phishing campaign that used fraudulent Google ads to target Ledger hardware wallet users. The ads redirected users through Google Cloud Storage and Vercel to a Google Sites page containing a phishing page impersonating Ledger in an iframe. During our analysis, the Vercel redirect appeared to change every 15-20 minutes. There, a fake…

Zscaler·via Zscaler ThreatLabz
NewOriginal

August 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·
NewOriginal

July 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.

Techarda·
Cloud Infrastructure

Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work

The organizations pulling ahead are not simply adding AI to what they already have. They are designing for a different kind of software. The post Designing agent-first platforms: What changes when agents do the work appeared first on Microsoft Azure Blog .

Microsoft·via Microsoft Azure Blog
Containers & KubernetesWhy it matters

Bringing enterprise Linux to the robotics frontier: ROS2 adds Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a tier-1 supported platform

The convergence of enterprise IT and physical computing is accelerating. As artificial intelligence transitions from purely digital environments into autonomous systems, industrial automation, and smart edge devices, the software foundation behind these systems must be as resilient as the physical machines themselves.To power this next generation of intelligent systems, we’re pleased that Red Hat…

Red Hat·via Red Hat Blog
Developer ToolsHow-to

GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases

Describe the interface you need in plain English, then let the agent build a live surface you can both use and update—so you spend less time adapting to tools and more time getting work done. The post GitHub Copilot app for Beginners: How to build custom workflows with canvases appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

GitHub·via GitHub Blog
DevOps & Platform Engineering

Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 now generally available

The Terraform provider for Google Cloud 8.0 builds on expanded infrastructure discovery workflows, modernizes provider defaults, removes support for retired Google Cloud services, and improves consistency between Terraform configurations and Google Cloud APIs.

HashiCorp·via HashiCorp Blog
AI Agents & AutomationWhy it matters

Building Production Agents with Jev and LangGraph

See how LangGraph orchestrates Jev, TypeSafe AI's decision model, to build faster, cheaper production agents.

LangChain·via LangChain Blog
Containers & KubernetesHow-to

Best practices guide for customizing Gemini models via Reinforcement Learning (RL)

Reinforcement learning (RL) has been a keystone of modern LLM post-training, but it demands large training clusters and access to model internals that external customers can't have with proprietary models like Gemini. So here at Google Cloud, we packaged it into a managed RL fine-tuning service (RLFT service) — you bring prompts and a reward function; we handle the infrastructure and the…

Google Cloud·via Google Cloud Blog
Containers & KubernetesWhy it matters

Breaking the AI productivity paradox: an intelligent migration factory to modernize infrastructure and applications

The rise of generative AI promised a silver bullet, but for most enterprises, especially banks, digital transformation remains a slow, complex, and costly endeavor. Early reports suggested massive developer productivity gains. But when AI is applied to complex enterprise systems, organizations often collide with what we call the AI productivity paradox.According to a Stanford software engineering…

Red Hat·via Red Hat Blog
DatabasesHow-toWhy it matters

How to add hybrid search to a Postgres app with Pinecone in 2026

Add hybrid search to a Postgres app with Pinecone: full-text and vector search in one index, Postgres as the source of truth. Built around a snack shop example.

Pinecone·via Pinecone Blog
Data & Analytics

Customer Journey Observability: From Impact to Root Cause

See how companies are using customer journey graphs in Observe by Snowflake to start incident investigation at business impact and reach root cause faster.

Snowflake·via Snowflake Blog
Data & Analytics

AI in M&A: Accelerating Due Diligence and Integration

Learn how Accenture and Snowflake use AI and a unified data platform to accelerate M&A due diligence, de-risk integration and drive deal value.

Snowflake·via Snowflake Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon Transcribe adds customer-managed KMS keys for custom resources

Amazon Transcribe now lets you encrypt your custom vocabularies, custom vocabulary filters, and custom language models at rest with a customer-managed AWS KMS key that you own and control. Previously, these custom resources were always encrypted with an AWS owned key. Now you can supply your own symmetric AWS KMS key when you create or update these resources, so the artifacts Transcribe stores on…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
AI Agents & Automation

LangSmith Custom Apps: Build custom interfaces around your agent data

LangSmith Custom Apps lets you build the interface you want with your LangSmith data, publish it into your workspace, and skip the hosting, auth, and permissions work. Learn more.

LangChain·via LangChain Blog
DevOps & Platform EngineeringWhy it matters

AI agents need continuity, not just context

Pulumi Neo works on infrastructure the way an engineer does: it clones repositories, edits files, installs dependencies, runs previews, and produces intermediate work along the way. A task is not only a conversation with a model. It is also a working directory that has to survive long enough for the agent to keep making progress. Imagine asking an agent to upgrade a Pulumi provider version across…

Pulumi·via Pulumi Blog
AI & ML Platforms

Proaction boosts sales 60% and saves 75+ hours with Codex

With Codex, GPT-Live-1, and GPT-6 Astra, Proaction builds, operates, and sells modern fleet management faster.

OpenAI·via OpenAI News
Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon EC2 M8i and M8i-flex instances are now available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The M8i and M8i-flex instances offer up to 15% better price-performance,…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon EC2 R8i and R8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) R8i and R8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. The R8i and R8i-flex instances offer up to 15%…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
Hybrid & MulticloudHow-to

FinOps for AI: a practical guide to managing AI cloud costs

AI has crossed the threshold from speculative R&D to the operational engine of the modern enterprise. Engineering teams deploy autonomous agents to handle complex customer workflows; product squads embed foundation model APIs directly into flagship software; and business units independently license AI-powered SaaS platforms to streamline daily work. What began as a series of isolated experiments…

Flexera·via Flexera Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

Amazon EC2 C8i and C8i-flex instances are now available in additional regions

Starting today, Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) C8i and C8i-flex instances are available in the AWS European Sovereign Cloud (Germany) region. These instances are powered by custom Intel Xeon 6 processors, available only on AWS, delivering the highest performance and fastest memory bandwidth among comparable Intel processors in the cloud. These C8i and C8i-flex instances offer up to 15%…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

AWS IAM outbound identity federation now supports interface VPC endpoints for OIDC discovery

AWS Identity and Access Management (IAM) outbound identity federation now supports Amazon Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) endpoints for the OpenID Connect (OIDC) discovery APIs. You can now access the OIDC discovery metadata and JSON Web Key Set (JWKS) verification key endpoints from within your VPC using AWS PrivateLink , without requiring traffic to traverse the public internet. IAM outbound…

Amazon Web Services·via Amazon Web Services Blog
Cloud Infrastructure

The agent-first cloud: why we built Managed Agents

Compute (EC2) opened the front door to the first generation cloud. Agents need something different: compute, inference, and data working as one. We built the cloud that delivers all three as one simple, intuitive developer experience for AI-natives. Every era of the cloud has its own unit of work. For the last twenty years, that unit was the virtual machine hour. Customers came for the compute,…

DigitalOcean·via DigitalOcean Blog
Storage & Data Protection

Cohesity Data Cloud introduces deferred execution for quorum

Consider this scenario. It’s Tuesday, and your change advisory board (CAB) signs off on revoking a service account's elevated privileges, rotating an encryption key, or clearing a legal hold. But the actual change cannot touch production until the Saturday night maintenance window. That is when you have support personnel on standby to troubleshoot or perform a rollback if required. In the…

Cohesity·via Cohesity Blog
Enterprise Applications

Pro Tips: 4 tips to overcome data problems in your CRM

Most CRM data problems don’t look like problems. At a glance, your CRM looks fine: records exist, fields are filled, and reports run. But, the real problems aren’t visible errors; they’re small inconsistencies that slowly change how your CRM behaves when repeated over time.If you're a Zoho CRM user, here's how you can address your data...

Zoho·via Zoho Blog
Containers & Kubernetes

AI Reliability Engineering for Dependable Humans | Solo.io

Learn AI reliability engineering (AIRE): how AI agents help SRE and platform teams triage incidents faster and stay dependable.

Solo.io·via Solo.io Blog
Developer Tools

Announcing Kong Operator 2.3

We have full Kubernetes CRD support for Kong AI Gateway. You can now declare an entire AI Gateway deployment; control plane, providers, models, policies, authentication, and consumers as Kubernetes resources, and manage it with the same GitOps workflows…

Kong·via Kong Blog
Developer Tools

From API Keys to Access Control: Rethinking Secrets Management

For as long as software has called APIs, we’ve solved the same problem the same way. The code needs a secret (a... The post From API Keys to Access Control: Rethinking Secrets Management appeared first on Postman Blog .

Postman·via Postman Blog
Containers & Kubernetes

Unlock 3x QPS and microsecond latency with Memorystore for Valkey 9.1

At Google Cloud, we are committed to delivering the best managed experience backed by open source software. Today, we’re announcing the general availability of Memorystore for Valkey 9.1 , which achieves up to 3x queries per second (QPS) at microsecond latency compared to Memorystore for Redis Cluster. Our support for Valkey dates back to 2024 , when Redis Inc. shifted its licensing away from the…

Google Cloud·via Google Cloud Blog
Data & Analytics

From Data to Dialogue: How S&P Global Energy Made Its Structured Data Estate Conversational with Databricks Genie Agents and MCP

S&P Global's goal was to fundamentally improve how customers discover and consume...

Databricks·via Databricks Blog
Containers & Kubernetes

Storage Intelligence advisor: Know what changed in your storage estate and act on it

The volume of data being generated today brings both opportunity and massive operational complexity. Most teams that operate at scale don't discover issues until they appear on an invoice — and by the time an unusual access pattern shows up as a line item, it has often been running for weeks. Understanding what happened means exporting inventory, joining it against access logs, and hoping someone…

Google Cloud·via Google Cloud Blog
Containers & Kubernetes

What’s new with Google Cloud

Want to know the latest from Google Cloud? Find it here in one handy location. Check back regularly for our newest updates, announcements, resources, events, learning opportunities, and more. Tip : Not sure where to find what you’re looking for on the Google Cloud blog? Start here: Google Cloud blog 101: Full list of topics, links, and resources . aside_block <ListValue: []> Sept 21 - Sept 25…

Google Cloud·via Google Cloud Blog
Storage & Data Protection

Making Sustainability Count: Turning Environmental Impact into Business Insight

Making Sustainability Count: Turning Environmental Impact into Business Insight by Everpure Blog Impact accounting translates environmental and social impacts into monetary value, helping organizations like Everpure make more informed sustainability decisions. The post Making Sustainability Count: Turning Environmental Impact into Business Insight appeared first on Everpure Blog .

Everpure·via Everpure Blog
Data & AnalyticsComparison

Fivetran vs Airbyte: Features, Pricing & Key Differences

Compare Fivetran vs Airbyte pricing and key features. Learn how to choose the right data integration platform for you.

Fivetran·via Fivetran Blog
Enterprise ApplicationsHow-to

Engineering resource planning: A guide to capacity and profitability

Engineering resource planning helps architecture and engineering firms align project demand with the right staffing. Learn how to connect resource decisions with project budgets, utilization, margins, and financial performance to support more profitable growth. The post Engineering resource planning: A guide to capacity and profitability appeared first on Sage Advice US .

Sage·via Sage Blog
Developer Tools

Putting business analysis in everyone’s hands

Today, we’re announcing that Replit has acquired Atta, bringing its approach to business analysis and high-quality, purpose-built charting into Replit. Our mission is to make useful intelligence accessible to everyone. For businesses, that means giving the people closest to a problem the ability to investigate it, explain what they find, and act on their expertise. Product leaders understand…

Replit·via Replit Blog
Enterprise Applications

Engineering KPIs: 10 metrics for financial performance

Engineering KPIs help teams connect project activity to financial performance, improve profitability and cash flow, strengthen forecasting, and make better pricing, staffing, and growth decisions. The post Engineering KPIs: 10 metrics for financial performance appeared first on Sage Advice US .

Sage·via Sage Blog
Networking

New webinar series now on demand: Secure Networking Ecosystem Insights

Explore Cisco's on-demand webinar series on building a secure, ecosystem-driven network architecture across infrastructure, identity, and access.

Cisco·via Cisco Blog
Developer Tools

Improving site performance by shipping more CSS

How we fully migrated github.com away from CSS-in-JS. The post Improving site performance by shipping more CSS appeared first on The GitHub Blog .

GitHub·via GitHub Blog