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ShipTalk Season 4 Finale: Engineering Excellence at AWS re:Invent

Welcome to the Season 4 finale of the Ship Talk podcast! Join special host Thomas Dockstader and several industry leaders at AWS re:Invent to discuss the intersection of AI and software delivery. The following is a series of interviews with partners, customers, and engineering leaders on the front lines of AI transformation. Don't miss the "Ship It or Skip It" segment, where our guests give their rapid-fire takes on everything from AI code reviews to the four-day work week.

Stop watching the looms: why the AI era belongs to infrastructure

I live in Manchester, England now. I moved here from Texas last summer (which is its own story), but the thing I wasn't prepared for is how the Industrial Revolution isn't history here. It's the city itself. And if you're American like me, you might need to hear this: the Industrial Revolution didn't start in the US. It started here. Manchester is where the modern world was born. You see it everywhere. The old cotton mills converted into apartments.

Your AWS Kiro Agent Can Now Query CloudZero. Here's What To Ask It

CloudZero's new AWS Kiro integration puts cost intelligence directly in your agentic IDE. Ask plain-language questions about spend, attribution, and cost-per-serve without leaving your development workflow. We see a similar pattern playing out across engineering teams running agentic development tools: code gets shipped fast, something moves in the cost data, and understanding why still requires leaving your environment entirely.

2026 Guide To Understanding Azure Storage Costs

This guide will help you understand Azure Storage costs – including tips and best practices to optimize your storage pricing. If you have trouble understanding Microsoft Azure Storage costs, you’re not alone. Azure Storage options can feel like a multi-layered maze of storage account types, tiers, pricing pages, specs — and then some. Yet, understanding your cloud cost drivers begins with looking at where your money goes. Only then can you tell if you are getting value for your money.

Customize preconfigured views for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud with Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud

Part of what makes Cloud Provider Observability in Grafana Cloud really useful is that it gives you prebuilt dashboards and drill-downs for AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud. Out of the box you get service overviews, instance-level views, and quick links to explore your data. However, you might already have dashboards you trust, want a view tailored to your team’s workflow, or need to change which panels show up when you drill into a single instance.

What Are The Best Video Conferencing Tools in 2026?

Since COVID hit in 2020, video conferencing has become a booming industry, allowing individuals, businesxses, and enterprises to host video calls, webinars, classes, and more. In a similar manner to cloud storage and local storage options, there are many video calling platforms available with different features available depending on personal or business needs. For this reason, we will cover the best video conferencing tools and apps available by covering.

Azure Monitor Collector: Monitor Your Entire Azure Infrastructure From Netdata

If you’re running infrastructure on Azure, you’ve probably dealt with the split between your Azure-native monitoring and the rest of your stack. Your VMs, databases, and Kubernetes clusters generate platform metrics through Azure Monitor, but those metrics live in a separate world from the OS-level, application, and on-prem metrics you’re already watching in Netdata.

Cloud-Powered Content Creation for YouTube Success

In today's business environment, video has moved well beyond its role as a supplementary marketing asset. For a growing number of organizations, YouTube now functions as a primary channel for audience engagement, brand development, and lead generation. As the platform has matured, demands on production quality, output frequency, and cross-team coordination have grown in parallel, and traditional, hardware-intensive workflows are increasingly struggling to keep pace. The shift toward cloud-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) solutions reflects something deeper than a passing trend.