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Enterprise Drupal: why hosting choice impacts your success

Deploying a large-scale Drupal application involves numerous decisions, and one of the most significant is where to host it. Should you keep everything on-premises, use a managed hosting provider, or opt for a modern PaaS like Upsun? Each approach has trade-offs. In this article, we’ll dive into the real-world technical pitfalls of on-premises and managed hosting, and then explore how Upsun addresses those challenges in an enterprise Drupal context.

Get Ready for the Next Level of Gaming!

Recorded at Civo Navigate Austin 2025, join industry experts from Perforce, Gametree, and Streamfog as they share their insights on the current state of technology in gaming, cloud-native technologies, and the future of tech in gaming. This panel discussion explores the latest trends and innovations in game development, AI-powered gaming, and emerging business models, revealing how the gaming industry is leveraging cloud-native technologies, AI, and other cutting-edge tech to drive innovation and growth.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization Done Right

Kubernetes was never just about cost savings. It was built to be a robust, scalable, and efficient platform for orchestrating containerized applications. And it was meant to abstract infrastructure away so developers could move quickly and go about their business of developing. But as Kubernetes adoption scaled, so did cloud bills. FinOps tools emerged to rein in spending, but most only scratch the surface.

NAT Management Made Easy: See Every Translation

Network Address Translation (NAT) is foundational in today’s enterprise and cloud networks, yet NAT documentation often remains an afterthought, managed in spreadsheets or skipped entirely. This creates unnecessary complexity, security blind spots, and wasted IP resources. At LightMesh, we believe IP address management (IPAM) should include intuitive tools to track NAT configurations just as easily as subnets and IP assignments.

Spike vs. PagerDuty: Which On-Call Management Tool Is Better in 2025

If you’re stuck between choosing Spike vs. PagerDuty for your on-call management, you’re at the right place. I wrote this blog post to end your confusion and help you make a better choice. I’ve presented a comparative analysis for these two tools across 4 key criteria (keep reading to find what they are). For each criterion, there’s either a winner or a tie. When it’s a tie, each tool gets one point. If there’s a winner, that tool gets two points.

Prometheus Gauges vs Counters: What to Use and When

Choosing the wrong metric type in Prometheus can lead to inaccurate dashboards, false positives in alerting, and missed indicators of system failure. Gauge metrics are intended for tracking values that can go up and down, such as memory usage, queue depth, or the number of active connections. Unlike counters, which only increment (or reset on restart), gauges reflect the current state of a resource at scrape time.

The $465M Bug: What Every Dev Needs to Know About Code Health

Is your codebase quietly killing developer productivity? In this talk from GitKon, Jai Predeesh (co-founder of DeepSource) breaks down why code health is more than a buzzword... it’s a critical lever for preventing failures, improving dev morale, and scaling without firefighting. From Knight Capital’s $465M bug to subtle security flaws in AI-generated code, this session shows how automated static analysis can catch the issues that escape human eyes and PR reviews.

A Quick Guide To Kubernetes Observability

Many companies are rapidly adopting cloud-native computing services, like containers, microservices, and serverless computing. Unlike monolithic applications, these technologies rely on distributed architectures. Whether you are running them in the cloud, on-premises, or both, distributed systems consist of thousands or millions of processes and components. The challenge now is to make these complex systems’ inner workings visible, controllable, and improvable.