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From maintenance to innovation: Checking in on Checkout.com’s Cloud Composer 3 migration

Data engineering teams often face a “Day 2” operational reality after building a data platform: the ongoing work of maintaining the orchestrator itself. For the Data Platform team at Checkout.com, managing a self-hosted Apache Airflow environment on another hyperscaler was consuming time the team wanted to spend elsewhere as server management, patching, and incident response were pulling focus from building pipelines. By migrating to Managed Service for Apache Airflow (Gen 3), Google Cloud’s ful

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DZone

Tracing the Agentic Loop: Monitoring Multi-Round-Trip MCP Calls With OpenTelemetry

The upcoming release of the July 28 Model Context Protocol (MCP) specification completely revolutionized how developers build AI tools. By shifting from stateful, long-lived connections to a streamlined, stateless HTTP engine, we finally gained the ability to run AI tools as scalable, modern microservices. However, statelessness introduces a massive operational headache: observability.

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AWS Architecture Blog

Architecting offline-first generative AI applications for edge deployments using AWS services

According to Siemens’ 2024 report The True Cost of Downtime, Fortune 500 companies lose an estimated $1.4 trillion annually because of unplanned downtime. This downtime is often worsened by a lack of skills to detect and resolve issues quickly. Generative AI offers a promising path to address this, but deploying these capabilities in industrial environments […]

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