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How Slack built its next-generation EC2 platform
Slack describes the control plane, migration strategy, and operational safeguards behind its internal compute platform.
Read the article at Slack Engineering ↗A GKE blueprint for securing AI at enterprise scale
Google Cloud lays out identity, isolation, policy, and observability controls for AI workloads on Kubernetes.
Read the article at Google Cloud ↗How March Networks stores enterprise video on AWS
The architecture uses S3 tiers, secure ingestion, and centralised governance for video spread across many sites.
Read the article at AWS Architecture ↗How MAPFRE modernised fraud detection with EMR Serverless
The case study connects Iceberg, Airflow, graph features, model scoring, and production claims workflows.
Read the article at AWS Architecture ↗Amazon SQS turns 20
AWS revisits the design choices that made a simple message queue a durable building block for distributed systems.
Read the article at AWS ↗OpenShell secures the agent that governs a fleet
Tigera looks at containment and network policy for agents with broad infrastructure privileges.
Read the article at Tigera ↗Apache Spark 4.2 arrives
Databricks highlights the query, streaming, Python, and operational changes in the new open-source release.
Read the article at Databricks ↗How Terraform state encryption works
A practical guide explains what sensitive data lands in state and how encryption changes the threat model.
Read the article at Spacelift ↗Using an MCP server with Terraform workflows
Spacelift demonstrates where agent tooling can help infrastructure teams and where approvals still matter.
Read the article at Spacelift ↗What the 2026 State of SaaS report says
BetterCloud’s data tracks application sprawl, automation, governance, and the workload now facing IT teams.
Read the article at BetterCloud ↗Five ways CIOs can avoid AI bill shock
The advice centres on measurement, model routing, guardrails, and ownership before usage grows unchecked.
Read the article at CIO ↗Designing APIs for agents
Freestyle argues that agent-facing APIs need discoverability, bounded operations, useful errors, and safe retries.
Read the article at Freestyle ↗Tech Little Brawta guides
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