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civo

The sovereignty of the builder: Lessons from Civo Navigate London 2025

Oct 31, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
Digital sovereignty isn’t won in policy papers. It’s earned in production. That was the challenge issued by Civo CEO Mark Boost and Board Director Kelsey Hightower at Civo Navigate London 2025. They argued that the cloud's real failure lies not with the providers, but with the customers who refused to change. Catch up on the full fireside chat below The power shift is underway, moving from large vendors back to the practitioner.
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AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency

AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency

Oct 30, 2025 By Mike Hoy In Pulsant
The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider, industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engenders a resilient cloud market.
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cortex

Cortex and Sonar Announce Partnership to Drive Code Quality and Security at Scale

Oct 30, 2025 By Tony Marino In Cortex
At Cortex, our mission is to empower engineering organizations to ship reliable, secure, and efficient software, faster. Today, we’re thrilled to announce a formalized partnership with Sonar, the leader in code quality and security. For years, Sonar has been one of the most popular integrations in Cortex. Teams rely on Sonar’s deep code insights to identify vulnerabilities, ensure coverage, and raise the bar for clean, secure code.
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puppet

Running Ansible Playbooks from Puppet Edge

Oct 30, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
When thinking about imperative infrastructure commands and Day 0 tasks for provisioning infrastructure, Ansible is an oft-mentioned tool that has been popular among practitioners for its easy YAML syntax and agentless architecture. You might have used Ansible to get your infrastructure started or for other “one-and-done” infrastructure automation scenarios.
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civo

Decoding cloud credits: Are "free" credits locking you in?

Oct 30, 2025 By Emma Kinsey-Coates In Civo
“Free" cloud credits, they sound like a gift, but they often come with hidden costs and an agenda: lock-in. The illusion of a cost-saving measure can quickly become a vendor-specific trap, forcing costly migrations or leaving your business overpaying for cloud services. This issue, which the UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) estimates contributes to £430M of annual over-payments in the UK alone, is what we call the "cloud credit trap.".
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atlassian

Manage your Pipelines usage with the new billing panel

Oct 30, 2025 By Ash Moosa In Atlassian
Until recently, the Pipelines Billing Panel has only displayed the total pipeline minutes used across your workspace. You didn’t have visibility into how usage was distributed across your repositories. We’ve now enhanced the billing panel to show you build minute usage by repository for the current and previous billing periods so you can identify and manage high-usage repositories.
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The Load Testing Start Guide! #speedscale #stresstest #loadtesting #mocking #startup

Oct 30, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Are you ready to get serious about load and stress testing, but don't know where to start? This guide highlights the trap most serious engineers fall into: trying to build a custom DIY testing environment. The traditional path means signing your team up for maintaining load drivers, test case frameworks, ephemeral environments, and endless custom mocks a massive drain on time and resources. There's a better, cheaper, and faster solution: Traffic Replay.
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Introducing Braintrust

Oct 30, 2025 By Cortex | Internal Developer Portal In Cortex
How do you balance speed and quality when your customers are counting on you? What does it actually take to build a culture of reliability? And how should engineering leaders think about AI when it's changing everything about how we ship software? On Braintrust, Ganesh Datta, CTO and Co-founder of Cortex, sits down with CTOs, VPs of Engineering, and technical leaders who've been in the trenches—the ones who've made the hard calls, shipped through the chaos, and built teams that actually work.
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