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FinOps For Claude: Your Strategy For Managing Claude API And Anthropic Costs At Scale

Anthropic’s Claude is one of the most powerful and developer-friendly large language models (LLMs) available. But as usage grows, so does cost. Here’s the reality: A single unoptimized development loop or unmonitored QA job can multiply costs 10x overnight. Most teams experimenting with Claude lack the visibility and guardrails needed to prevent runaway costs, especially once usage moves from R&D into production.

You don't have to live with outages and late nights

Outages don’t have to be part of your life and engineers don’t have to burn out being a hero. Spread out your effort and build reliability without the drama. Transcript:  You should be great at dealing with outages, but your customers don't care. There's no medals here. No one should have incentive to be paged. There's nothing good about being in a war room for 10 days or in the holiday season in 12 hour shifts around the clock just in case something happens.

What is Database Monitoring

Database monitoring transforms from a reactive troubleshooting exercise into a proactive optimization strategy when you have the right tools and approaches in place. This blog shares practical ways to choose monitoring solutions, set up observability for different database platforms, and design workflows that scale in modern distributed systems.

We need to talk about HFC-227ea

Data centres often hold the fluorinated gas (f-gas) HFC-227ea, traded under the name FM-200, as an emergency measure to stop fires in data halls and technical space without harming electrical equipment. Robust fire prevention helps avoid devastating human, operational, financial, and environmental consequences, but there’s a problem with this particular gas – if released, it has an immense global warming potential.

Why open source might be the best move for ISVs

Why do ISVs choose to partner with Canonical? Canonical’s promise to deliver secure, open source software empowers Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to focus on building and improving their products every day. We help vendors meet regulatory compliance, reduce their environmental footprint through containerization, and stay ready for the future.

Automating Connectivity: The Future of Digital Infrastructure

Connectivity powers our world, but the way it’s bought and sold is being transformed. In this episode of Uplink, Michael Reid talks with Ben Edmond, founder and CEO of Connectbase, about building a global marketplace for digital infrastructure. With 4.2 million quotes processed each month and 1.9 trillion rows of connectivity data, Connectbase is revolutionizing how providers and enterprises access real-time intelligence.

Introducing AppJet.ai : a GitHub-native AI that codes full-stack from prompt to deploy

If you ever tried any vibe-coding tool on the market you know they are mostly supercharged NodeJS code editor, full of pre-made components and often unable to really understand your existing code base. We created AppJet for a simple reason: AI is now at a maturity point where it can realistic to use it as a real coding companion.

Introducing "Resolved by Timer"

Today, we are introducing Resolved by Timer. It is a timer you can set on your incidents. When the timer runs out, the incident resolves on its own. Not all incidents need manual attention. Sometimes they just sit on dashboards, adding noise long after they have stopped mattering. And when that happens, Spike also treats them as “open incidents,” which can end up suppressing new alerts if the same problem re-triggers later. Resolve Timer solves both problems.

Console Connect expands in Thailand enabling 13 new data centre locations

Thailand is emerging as one of Asia’s most important digital hubs. Fuelled by large-scale investments in data centres, cloud regions, and network infrastructure, the country is becoming a central link between Southeast Asia and global markets. Recognising this, Console Connect, PCCW Global’s Network-as-a-Service platform, has expanded its footprint by enabling 13 new data centre locations across Thailand, bringing the total to 16 nationwide.