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Choosing GPU cloud platforms for developers

For developers building AI applications, training models, or running inference pipelines, the GPU cloud market in 2026 has never offered more choice - or more complexity. Picking the wrong platform means overpaying, dealing with availability problems, or battling infrastructure that slows you down rather than accelerating your work.

How to define your monitoring requirements (before you talk to a vendor)

This is a guest post from Laura Copeland. Key insights from a fireside chat with Chris Yates. Part 1. Choosing the right database monitoring vendor isn’t just a technical decision, it’s a strategic one that affects your teams, your estate, your growth plans, and the culture of your organisation. It’s also a personal one if you’re a DBA. Something as critical as your monitoring system will shape your day‑to‑day work, and, in many cases, how well you sleep at night.

Preparing Web and Mobile Cloud Infrastructure for Massive Advertising Traffic Spikes

When a digital marketing team launches an aggressive display network campaign, they measure success in clicks, impressions, and conversions. However, for IT operations and DevOps teams, that same success manifests as a massive, often unpredictable surge in server requests. A sudden influx of users can be a triumph for brand visibility, but it quickly becomes a nightmare if the underlying web and mobile cloud infrastructure is not equipped to handle the heavy load. Bridging the gap between marketing ambition and technical reality requires robust planning, dynamic resource provisioning, and intelligent system monitoring. Without these elements, a successful ad campaign can accidentally execute a self-inflicted denial of service attack on a company's own platforms. Modern businesses cannot afford the disconnect that often exists between the departments generating traffic and the teams responsible for keeping the lights on. Aligning these two functions ensures that the digital infrastructure is primed and ready long before the first advertisement goes live.

What is Kubernetes? The reality of Day-2 enterprise fleet orchestration

Kubernetes is an open-source container orchestration engine. At enterprise scale, it abstracts infrastructure to automate deployment, scaling, and networking. However, managing hundreds of clusters introduces severe Day-2 operational toil, requiring agentic control planes to enforce global governance, security policies, and cost optimizations across multi-cloud fleets.

CircleCI is now available as a Codex plugin

CircleCI is part of the latest wave of Codex plugin integrations, joining the directory alongside other popular development tools like Vercel, Cloudflare, Figma, Notion, Sentry, Hugging Face, Linear, and more. If you’re using Codex, you already know that writing code is rarely the hardest part of your job. It’s the delays, interruptions, and context switching that start when that code breaks on its way to production. The CircleCI Codex plugin closes that gap.