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upsun

Crafting a microservice that fits your needs

Dec 15, 2025 By Upsun In Upsun
This blog is based on Haylee Millar's talk at the Symfony 2024 conference. Haley is a Product Engineer at Upsun. We utilized AI tools for transcription and to enhance the structure and clarity of the content. When faced with an aging system that needs new features, many development teams find themselves at a crossroads. Do you patch the old system and risk technical debt, or do you take the leap into microservices architecture?
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The cloud the way you want it: Introducing cloud parity

Dec 15, 2025 By Civo In Civo
For decades, there have been two incompatible worlds in cloud: Public (AWS, Google, Microsoft) and Private (VMware, Nutanix). Moving between them meant throwing everything away and re-architecting your systems. Civo is rewriting that script. This final thought from the Civo keynote at Civo Navigate London 2025 introduces Cloud Parity: the elimination of the public/private gap. It's just one way of working, with the same product, same API, and same support.
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cloudzero

Cloud Cost Governance: Architecting Accountability And Business Value

Dec 15, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Imagine this. A product team rolls out a change to improve reliability. The deployment succeeds. Traffic grows. Weeks later, cloud costs increase, and the finance team asks what changed. No one can point to a single decision or owner. This situation is common in cloud environments. Infrastructure scales automatically, and costs are shaped by technical choices made across engineering, data, and product teams. Most organizations review cloud spending after it has already occurred. Ownership is unclear.
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Remote Access Explained: How to Connect to Your Work Computer from Anywhere in 2026

Remote Access Explained: How to Connect to Your Work Computer from Anywhere in 2026

Dec 15, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Your developer needs a file from their office workstation at 11 PM. Your sysadmin gets a critical alert while on vacation. Your security team demands audit trails for every remote connection. Welcome to IT operations in 2026, where 36% of new job postings now offer remote or hybrid work, and your infrastructure needs to keep pace. After analyzing deployment patterns across enterprise IT environments and reviewing security frameworks from SOC 2 to HIPAA compliance standards, we've identified what separates functional remote access from infrastructure that actually scales.
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Civil Counterintelligence and the New Reality of High-Stakes Disputes

Civil Counterintelligence and the New Reality of High-Stakes Disputes

Dec 15, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Across corporate, financial, and private sectors, the way high-stakes disputes are investigated and resolved is undergoing a quiet but profound transformation. As organizations become deeply embedded in digital ecosystems, conflicts increasingly leave traces not in documents or testimony, but in systems, networks, and behavioral data. This shift has given rise to civil counterintelligence - a discipline that blends cybersecurity, digital forensics, and strategic analysis to uncover truth in complex disputes.
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cloudzero

SaaS Architecture Fundamentals: Design Principles, Best Practices, And Examples

Dec 12, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
As an engineer, engineering leader, or CTO, your architectural choices shape how fast your team builds products and how efficiently you manage technology costs. Your architecture determines how much control you have over data, infrastructure, and customization. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is one of the most common ways to deliver software reliably to users anywhere.
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How to Handle Cloud Monitoring Overload?

Dec 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Reduce alert noise by 70% through intelligent aggregation, clear ownership boundaries, and filtering metrics that don't map to user-facing issues. Monitoring starts with a straightforward goal: understand your system's health and identify issues before users notice them. You set up metrics, create dashboards, and configure some alerts. At first, it works well. Over time, your stack gets bigger and more complicated. New services get added.
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cloudzero

13 Real-World FinOps Insights From Anderson Oliveira

Dec 12, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
On a recent episode of FinOps In Full Bloom, host Thalia Elie sat down with Anderson Oliveira, a Senior FinOps Account Manager at CloudZero. With more than two decades in IT and deep FinOps expertise, Anderson brought clarity, humor, and a refreshingly human perspective to the conversation. Their chat covered everything from visibility and budgets to cultural friction and how to shift teams from resistance to results. Here are 13 insights and takeaways every FinOps-minded leader should hear.
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cloudzero

AWS re:Invent 2025: 6 FinOps Signals That Mattered

Dec 12, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
This year’s AWS re:Invent was a blur of GPUs, LLMs, and infrastructure roadmap reveals — but for those listening between the keynotes, another story was unfolding. Between hallway chats, booth conversations, and live polls, a signal emerged from the noise: FinOps is growing up. Mature cloud teams aren’t just managing costs — they’re asking smarter, more strategic questions about value, forecasting, and engineering accountability.
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incidenthub

Major Cloud Outages of 2025

Dec 12, 2025 By Hrishikesh Barua In IncidentHub
Cloud outages in 2025 ranged from minor ones affecting some sections of users, to major ones affecting hundreds or thousands of users. Services like Cloudflare and AWS on which many other services depend experienced outages that affected many due to the cascading effect. Let's look at some of the major cloud outages in 2025.
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