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Join us for the latest in DevOps, exploring powerful tools and crucial industry trends shaping how we build and operate software. First, we dive into Pulumi ESC Approvals, a game-changer for governance in environment configuration. This new feature brings explicit review and sign-off to your workflows, creating an auditable record and ensuring greater control over changes applied to ESC-managed environments. Next, enhance your observability with Grafana Beyla 2.5. Building on OpenTelemetry eBPF instrumentation, this release introduces MongoDB protocol support, automatic instrumentation for Go applications using JSON-RPC, and improved NodeJS support, giving you deeper insights into your systems. We also look at how Amazon Q Developer CLI is transforming troubleshooting for AWS Elastic Beanstalk environments. It uses natural language to analyze logs and configurations, providing targeted fixes and cutting down debugging time significantly. The GitHub MCP server is streamlining developer workflows by offering a fully hosted, OAuth-authenticated endpoint. It automates pull requests, CI/CD, and security triage, replacing local Docker setups and preparing for future AI collaboration like GitHub Copilot. We see a practical application of this with Microsoft's success story, where Azure DevOps' MCP server, GitHub Copilot, and Playwright were integrated to automate manual tests, highlighting the power of AI-assisted test script generation with precise prompts. While AI is a hot topic, we'll discuss why claims of engineers being 10x more productive might be exaggerated. AI tools offer efficiency bursts, especially for boilerplate tasks, but they don't fundamentally alter the collaborative and iterative nature of engineering work. Finally, we touch on broader industry shifts. Cloudflare's findings regarding Perplexity's stealth crawlers highlight important discussions around responsible web crawling and digital ethics. We also explore why self-hosting might not be the future for most, despite its benefits for digital ownership, and how Azure Service Health Built-In Policy is simplifying the deployment of critical alerts, reflecting the urgent need for accelerated modernization and cloud migration from legacy systems. https://vocaltechnologist.cyou