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20 Azure Cost Management Tools For Cloud Savings

Toward the end of Q1 2022, survey findings reported that Microsoft’s Azure cloud computing services had, for the first time, eclipsed Amazon Web Services (AWS) in some enterprise categories. According to the respondents, more enterprises preferred Azure because it integrates well with the many Microsoft products they already use. A second reason is that Azure is suitable for running on-premises and at the edge. Some organizations also use Microsoft Azure to avoid vendor lock-in to AWS.

Introducing Netdata Insights

Now in research preview: Netdata Insights The problem: Incident? You're jumping between dashboards, piecing together timelines. Reporting? You're copy-pasting charts and correlating trends by hand. The data’s there, but turning it into a narrative doesn’t scale. The solution: Netdata Insights. Synthesizes our high-fidelity telemetry using the latest LLMs into AI-powered reports with natural-language explanations, visuals, and clear recommendations.

2025 - The Year of Data Repatriation

For many businesses, 2020 marked the dawn of the cloud-first era, with organisations around the world embracing public cloud. And it made sense at the time; promise of reduced infrastructure costs, flexibility and scalability meant that leveraging cloud services was a no-brainer. But with any new technology, the shifting tides that come along with its proliferation also informs the cyclical nature of its adoption.

OWASP CI/CD Part 7: Insecure System Configuration

Insecure system configuration is a textbook example of how neglected settings can create an entry point for attackers targeting your CI/CD pipelines. It’s rarely the cutting-edge zero-day that causes a breach. More often, it’s the unpatched service, the overly permissive role, or the default password that was never changed. While this risk overlaps with CI/CD credential hygiene (covered in Part 6 of our OWASP CI/CD series), the focus here is much broader.

Everything You Need to Know About Event Logs

Your code passes locally, CI is green, and the deploy goes through. Then production throws a 500, and the trace isn’t helpful. And here, event logs help. A log captures timestamped records of what the app did HTTP requests, DB queries, cache misses, retries, failures. These entries give you enough context to debug without reproducing the issue locally. Especially when dealing with distributed systems, logs are often the only consistent source of truth.

Our Golang Stack in 2025

In our Go projects, we rely on a consistent and battle-tested stack of libraries that help us build reliable, maintainable, and scalable systems. We started using Go in our stack many years ago (before Go v1) and therefore many of our choices have changed over the years. Here in this post, I wanted to share some of the libraries we use regularly to power our Go apps.

Anbox Cloud 1.26.0: what's new?

In this video, Anbox team covers new features and changes in Anbox Cloud 1.26.0 release: Deployment and operations Instance management Logging Dashboard enhancements Images Streaming CVEs What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency.

An Introduction to Bitbucket Pipelines

This video provides a 90-second introduction to Bitbucket Pipelines to help you get started with CI/CD in Bitbucket. Bitbucket pipes, which are reusable pipeline steps, are introduced. About Atlassian: Behind every great human achievement, there is a team. From medicine and space travel to disaster response and pizza deliveries, we help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.

DevEx Unpacked 004 - Scaling Startups, Blockchain & Developer Culture with Jack Spargo

Episode 004: In this episode of DevEx Unpacked, Alan Carson chats with Jack Spargo, CTO of Control Alt, about his fascinating career journey from aerospace engineering to leading blockchain-powered investment platforms. Jack shares lessons from being acquired overnight, the challenges of building a platform from scratch, and why he’s betting big on junior engineers and AI augmentation. They explore the realities of compliance, software supply chain security, and why Northern Ireland is fast becoming a serious start-up hub.