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Pandemic-era shortages are still fresh in many minds. As consumers, we remember empty shelves and long lines driven by panic buying and stockpiling. In telecom, the story played out differently but with the same root cause: factory shutdowns interrupted chip fabrication just as demand for networking and optical equipment surged.

We're excited to announce the release of HAProxy Enterprise 3.3, which brings significant advancements to the HAProxy Enterprise WAF and bot management capabilities.

If you’re running infrastructure on Azure, you’ve probably dealt with the split between your Azure-native monitoring and the rest of your stack. Your VMs, databases, and Kubernetes clusters generate platform metrics through Azure Monitor, but those metrics live in a separate world from the OS-level, application, and on-prem metrics you’re already watching in Netdata.

This guide will help you understand Azure Storage costs – including tips and best practices to optimize your storage pricing. If you have trouble understanding Microsoft Azure Storage costs, you’re not alone. Azure Storage options can feel like a multi-layered maze of storage account types, tiers, pricing pages, specs — and then some. Yet, understanding your cloud cost drivers begins with looking at where your money goes. Only then can you tell if you are getting value for your money.

The new Query Plan Compare feature in Redgate Monitor helps PostgreSQL DBAs see when the optimizer switches plans for the same query, and understand why, so they can diagnose sudden performance changes faster.

As far back as 2020, Barclays found that 43% of enterprise CIOs were already planning to bring workloads back from the public cloud to on-premises or private cloud infrastructure1. Since then, IDC, Gartner and a host of vendor surveys have tracked an increase in this intention.

Argo Rollouts exposes Prometheus metrics on port 8090 — but the docs lie about which labels exist. Here's how to scrape them into Last9, build a canary dashboard, and use Last9 as an automated AnalysisTemplate gate, including the auth and base64 gotchas. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.