Grafana Labs today at its GrafanaCON 2026 conference revealed it has extended its artificial intelligence (AI) agent to its cloud-based observability platform while at the same time previewing a platform for observing AI applications and an open source framework for evaluating AI agents. At the same time, the company announced it has developed an instance of the OpenTelemetry tools for collecting telemetry data that in addition to improving support for Kubernetes clusters, can be installed with a single command in Linux environments. Additionally, the company also unfurled Grafana 13, an update to the company’s core visualization software that adds pre-built…
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I have used temporary email services more times than I care to admit. You know the drill: you need to download something, a site demands an email before showing its content, and you do not want to hand over your real address. TempMail and similar services solve this, but what if you need to generate a batch of random email addresses programmatically? Python makes this trivial. Let me show you two approaches that cover most use cases. Before jumping into the code, it helps to understand the anatomy of an email address. Every email has a local part (the name…
Press enter or click to view image in full sizeRxJS has been around for a long time in Angular applications, which means migrating to signals can seem daunting at first. In this post, I’ll cover common patterns, tips, and tricks for migrating your application from RxJS-based to Signal-based in a step-by-step fashion.1. Automated migrationsFirst and foremost, the Angular CLI supports several automated migrations, including ones that will turn your input and output decorators into Signal-friendly code, as well as ViewChild content queries.Here are the commands you need to run:ng generate @angular/core:signal-input-migrationng generate @angular/core:output-migrationng generate @angular/core:signal-queries-migration2. Use toSignal() to convert ObservablesIf…
GitHub has suspended new sign-ups for several of its Copilot subscription tiers, a decision that follows a surge in demand driven by agentic coding workflows, which consume far more compute resources than earlier models of AI assistance. The company confirmed that new subscriptions for Copilot Pro, Pro+, and Student plans are paused, while existing users face tighter usage limits. Internally, the change is framed as a step to maintain service reliability. In practice, it signals that the original pricing model, built around predictable, lightweight usage, no longer aligns with how developers now use AI tools. “Cloud agent sessions running multi-step…
Python has become the top choice for Machine Learning because it combines simplicity with immense power. Machine Learning involves training algorithms to find patterns in data and make predictions, and Python makes this process smooth. It has specialised libraries like Scikit-learn for building models, Pandas for data handling, and NumPy for calculations. Since Machine Learning involves numerous libraries and concepts, we are presenting you a set of 100 Python Machine Learning MCQs covering a wide range of topics, designed to help you prepare for ML interviews and examinations in 2026. 100 Python Machine Learning MCQs These 100 Python Machine Learning…
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has struck a deal with artificial intelligence (AI) coding sensation Cursor that gives SpaceX the right to acquire the startup for $60 billion later this year or, alternatively, pay $10 billion for a collaborative partnership. The announcement, made Tuesday via Musk’s social media platform X, positions the newly formed “SpaceXAI” to challenge industry titans OpenAI and Anthropic. “SpaceXAI and @cursor_ai are now working closely together to create the world’s best coding and knowledge work AI,” the company said. By folding Cursor into the SpaceX ecosystem, Musk is not just building a rocket company; he is attempting to…
To prepare for Python Data Structures, you need a strong knowledge of core built-in types like Lists, Tuples, Sets, and Dictionaries. It is also essential to understand standard library modules such as collections and copy, along with concepts like time complexity and comprehensions. In this article, we have combined all these important topics into a single set of 100 Python Data Structures MCQs. These questions cover everything from basic operations to advanced logic, helping you prepare for coding interviews and competitive exams in 2026-2027. 100 Python Data Structures MCQs Below are 100 Python Data Structures MCQs. If you get most…
It’s 2 AM. Your phone is going off. Users can’t connect to the application, and when you open SSMS to investigate, the connection spinner just keeps spinning. SQL Server is alive; you can see the process running, but it’s too overwhelmed to let you in. You need to get in there and kill something, but you can’t get a connection to do it.This is exactly the scenario the Dedicated Admin Connection DAC was built for. And if you haven’t set it up yet, now is the time. Because when you need it, you really need it.What Is the DAC?The Dedicated…
Concurrency bugs are some of the hardest problems to track down. I keep coming back to the Producer-Consumer problem because it captures exactly what goes wrong when threads operate at different speeds. Let me walk through what it is and how to solve it in Python. The core issue: one thread produces data, another consumes it, and they share a fixed-size buffer. If the producer runs faster than the consumer, the buffer overflows. If the consumer runs faster, it reads from an empty buffer. Plus, both threads can step on each other if they access the buffer at the same…
I discovered a procedure recently that I wasn’t aware of: sp_sequence_get_range. This post looks at how the proc works.Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.The SetupI have a sequence object, IDCounter, that is an integer with an increment of 2. The next value that is returned is shown here:The next value returned will be 99 (increment by 2).However, imagine that I know I need 10 new values. I don’t want a loop to get these values. Instead, I want to move the sequence to 10 values…