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AWS Cost Categories Explained (How To Allocate AWS Spend Accurately)

If you’ve ever tried to make sense of your AWS bill, you know how fast things get messy. Different accounts, hundreds of services, random tags, and suddenly, no one can say for sure who’s spending what or why the total looks so high. It’s not that teams don’t care about costs — it’s that AWS billing data isn’t always easy to interpret. Finance wants accountability. Engineering wants visibility. And somewhere between the two, ownership disappears.

Fast and Clear Presentations for Tech Teams: Saving Time While Explaining Complexity

We've all been there. Technical complexity is our daily bread, but explaining it? That's where things get messy. Technical presentations shouldn't feel like translating ancient hieroglyphs. Yet here we are, drowning audiences in diagrams that look like subway maps. The irony? We build systems for clarity and efficiency, then create presentations that achieve neither. Modern IT teams face a presentation paradox. We need to move fast-really fast-while ensuring everyone actually understands what we're building, breaking, or fixing.

Best Cheap Black Friday VPS Deals - November 2025: A Cost-Based Analysis

It is November 2025 and Black Friday is here, and the VPS hosting world is getting ready for its biggest sale event of the year. Numerous VPS deals with huge discount percentages will appear across every website, but what should be considered is that the real savings aren't always what they look like at first glance. This guide focuses on total cost and provides a few different options that you can consider.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025: Recap

Hi everyone, my name is Bailey Ahrens, and I’m a marketing intern at Speedscale! I just returned a few days ago from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. While it was only my second trade show, it felt like a huge step forward in my confidence, skills, and future direction. My first conference (API World) was all about stepping outside my comfort zone. KubeCon was where I started leaning into that confidence and finding my place in the tech community.

A New, Simpler Microsoft Teams Integration For Redgate Monitor

Microsoft is retiring Office 365 connectors, but there is now a new and easier way to send Redgate Monitor alert notifications to Teams, ready-formatted. Microsoft is retiring Microsoft 365 (Office 365) connectors on 31 March 2026. After that date, any Redgate Monitor alert notifications configured through the old connector method will stop appearing in Teams. From Redgate Monitor 14.1.0, there’s now a new and much simpler way to do it.

Tame multi-cluster chaos. A Platform Engineer's guide to distributed Kubewarden Policies with Fleet

For platform engineers managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, maintaining policy consistency is a constant struggle. Manually applying security rules across a growing fleet of clusters is inefficient and error-prone. This approach creates significant risks: As your environment scales, this operational burden becomes unsustainable. Each out-of-sync policy represents a potential security gap, increasing the cluster’s attack surface.

Strengthening Open Source Facter: Ensuring Compatibility and Essential Maintenance

Over the course of 2025, the Puppet Core team has been committed to developing secure, hardened Puppet code that our customers can rely on. As part of that shift, many Puppet platform components, including Facter, were brought under the Puppet Core model and were moved into private repositories.