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The Digital Sovereignty Revolution: Why Big Tech Is Losing UK Trust

Jul 29, 2025 By Civo In Civo
In a world where data is power, UK businesses are demanding control. Civo’s latest whitepaper, The Digital Sovereignty Revolution, uncovers the top challenges UK businesses face in securing true data sovereignty from eroding trust in Big Tech to geopolitical instability. Our latest research, based on a survey of 1,000+ UK IT decision-makers, reveals the extent to which sovereignty is reshaping the UK's tech sector. From the risks of relying on US-based providers to the benefits of multi-cloud strategies, the whitepaper explores key trends and what they mean for UK businesses.
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Stop guessing! Speedscale's Notebook finds anything in your traffic.

Jul 29, 2025 By Speedscale In Speedscale
Debugging complex microservices just got an upgrade. This video demonstrates Speedscale's innovative Notebook capability, allowing you to perform advanced substring searches and filter production traffic based on deeply nested JSON fields within request and response bodies. Unlike traditional observability tools that only record telemetry, Speedscale's always-on recorder captures full traffic payloads, empowering you to precisely pinpoint issues, identify specific user calls, or validate API versions. Streamline your troubleshooting, enhance your testing, and gain unprecedented visibility into your production environment.
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Scaling Online Game Infrastructure for High-Engagement PvM Content

Scaling Online Game Infrastructure for High-Engagement PvM Content

Jul 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
The explosive popularity of player-versus-monster (PvM) content in online games brings significant backend challenges, particularly as titles scale globally. Instanced boss fights, real-time combat logic, and mass player concurrency demand robust, responsive server infrastructure that can scale both horizontally and vertically - without degrading the player experience.
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From Wallpaper to Web Servers: How One Immigrant Switched from Walls to DevOps in Just Two Years

From Wallpaper to Web Servers: How One Immigrant Switched from Walls to DevOps in Just Two Years

Jul 29, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
He landed in the U.S. with a suitcase, a scraper, and a strong back. No tech degree. No connections. Just a willingness to work and a sense that something bigger might be possible. At first, he did what he knew best - he worked as a wallpaper installer. The job was honest, physical, and surprisingly calming. "There's something meditative about smoothing out bubbles," he says. "But after a while, I realized I wanted to build something that didn't peel off the wall."
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PostgreSQL Table partitions now supported in Flyway

Jul 28, 2025 By Maxime Drobot In Redgate
This blog post was originally authored by Prajakta Tamhankar, whose insights and expertise shaped much of the content you’ll read here. We are thrilled to announce the General Availability (GA) of Table Partitions for PostgreSQL users in Flyway v8.0.2. This new functionality is designed to enhance your database management experience by providing robust support for table partitions, including sub-partitions and range partitions.
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Cyber Insurance Premiums Giving you a Headache - Is a Resilient and Sovereign Digital Infrastructure the Answer?

Jul 28, 2025 By Natasha O'Brien, Senior Client Success Account Manager In Pulsant
If you are looking to renew your organisation’s cyber insurance, you may have been optimistic that the rising price of premiums has been slowing down.
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How Prometheus 3.0 Fixes Resource Attributes for OTel Metrics

Jul 28, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
When you export OpenTelemetry metrics to Prometheus, resource fields like service.name or deployment.environment don’t show up as metric labels. Prometheus drops them. To use them in queries, you’d have to join with target_info: This makes filtering and grouping more difficult than necessary. Prometheus 3.0 changes that. It supports resource attribute promotion—automatically converting OpenTelemetry resource fields into Prometheus labels.
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OTel Weaver: Consistent Observability with Semantic Conventions

Jul 28, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9
Deploying a new service shouldn’t break dashboards. But it happens, usually because metric names or labels aren’t consistent across teams. You end up with traces that don’t link, metrics that don’t align, and queries that take hours to debug, not because the system is complex, but because the telemetry is fragmented. OTel Weaver addresses this by enforcing OpenTelemetry semantic conventions at the source.
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Are Egress Fees Holding Your AI Business Back?

Jul 28, 2025 By Kendall Miller In Civo
For AI companies, the landscape of cloud computing has always been a balancing act between innovation, costs, and compliance. That’s where Civo comes in. Offering a full cloud offering with GPUs, but without the usual headaches, Civo provides a rare combination: true data sovereignty and zero data egress charges. Let’s break down why these two features should be non-negotiables for your AI infrastructure.
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