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Proxmox vs Cycle: Toolkit or Platform?

If you've ever run a homelab, chances are you've tried Proxmox. Its mix of open-source accessibility, strong VM support, and lightweight containers has made it popular among enthusiasts and small IT teams alike. Beyond hobby projects, Proxmox has also found adoption in organizations that value cost efficiency or wanted to avoid locking themselves into VMware's catalog. That adoption has seen some positive movement in the wake of Broadcom's changes to VMware's licensing and support model.

Optimize Kubernetes and Container Costs with Datadog Cloud Cost Management

Struggling to understand the true cost of your Kubernetes workloads? With Datadog Cloud Cost Management, you can automatically allocate container costs by team, product, and service down to the pod. Instantly identify idle resources, surface optimization opportunities, and act with confidence. All in one unified platform.

How to surface misconfigured resources by defining policies | Datadog Tips & Tricks

Misconfigured infrastructure resources can be easy to miss, especially in multi-account or multi-cloud environments. From EKS clusters running on deprecated versions to RDS engines on extended support, these issues can disrupt services or drive up costs if left unchecked. In this video, we show you how to: By centralizing policies, you’ll gain a clear view of where to focus your remediation efforts.

What's new for scheduling and resource management in Kubernetes v1.34?

Kubernetes v1.34, which is scheduled for release August 27, 2025, focuses on improved scheduler visibility, deeper life cycle observability, and enhanced resource management. As always, the list of changes and improvements in the official changelog is extensive, and cluster operators may be wondering which changes are most important. If you're operating a monitoring platform or depend on deep Kubernetes observability, here's how a number of new features will affect your workflows.

What's New in Calico - Summer 2025

As Kubernetes adoption scales across enterprise architectures, platform architects face mounting pressure to implement consistent security guardrails across distributed, multi-cluster environments while maintaining operational velocity. Modern infrastructure demands a security architecture that can adapt without introducing complexity or performance penalties.

Instrument your Azure Container Apps workloads with the new Datadog Agent sidecar

Modern application development is evolving rapidly, with serverless containers and microservices becoming the standard for scalable, resilient architectures. Azure Container Apps is at the forefront of this movement, enabling developers to deploy containerized applications without having to manage infrastructure.

Buy vs Build: The Technical Reality of On-Prem, Hybrid, and Cloud

Most conversations about buy vs build turn into budget debates. But engineers know that the deeper question is: what exactly are we signing up to run, and who is going to run it? The operating model you choose: is what defines what layers of the stack you own, what skills your team needs, and how you spend your nights on-call. This article reframes the decision around the work itself, not just the invoice.