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Cloud Migration Strategies, the 6 Rs, and How to Avoid Getting Stuck Mid-Move

Sep 14, 2026 By Aykut Bulgu In Control Plane
Consider a platform team that spends four months building a thorough migration plan. Its pilot, a stateless order-status API, runs on AWS within three weeks. Six months later, that API is still the only workload in the cloud. In this scenario, the blockers are not exotic technical failures.
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Top 10 Heroku Alternatives

Sep 7, 2026 By Nathan McNeill In Control Plane
Heroku is not shutting down. On February 6, 2026, Heroku CPO Nitin T Bhat announced that the platform was moving to a sustaining engineering model: new feature development has stopped, but Heroku remains actively supported and production-ready. There is no announced EOL date or migration deadline, existing apps can keep running, credit-card customers can continue using the service, and existing Enterprise customers can renew. What changed is the roadmap, not immediate availability.
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What to Look for When Evaluating a DevOps Platform

Sep 4, 2026 By Aykut Bulgu In Control Plane
DevOps platform feature lists increasingly look alike. CI/CD, multi-cloud, observability, GitOps, and AI-friendly automation can all appear as checkboxes while the implementation burden still falls on your team. The useful signal appears when you ask how each capability actually works, what evidence a vendor can show, and which parts your team still has to build. Can pipelines authenticate with a scoped machine identity? Can workloads reach cloud APIs without static keys?
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If We're Not Up, The Checkout Breaks

Sep 3, 2026 By Control Plane Corporation In Control Plane
Kintsugi puts sales tax compliance on autopilot for 7,300 companies selling into 110 countries, and its tax engine sits inside other companies' checkouts. The answer has to arrive before the shopper finishes paying. "Typically, a customer's expectation is that we are returning the sales tax estimate on the invoice within 100 milliseconds." The cost of missing is not abstract: "For every minute that our sales tax API, if it ever goes down, our customers are not able to collect roughly $4 million in sales tax that they should be collecting.".
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