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An LLM gateway is a proxy that sits between your applications and model providers, handling routing, failover, caching, and cost controls through one API. The strongest picks in 2026: LiteLLM for self-hosted control, OpenRouter for instant multi-model access, Portkey for managed governance, and Bifrost for production-scale throughput. Enterprises spent $37 billion on generative AI in 2025, a 3.2x jump in one year, per Menlo Ventures.

Engineers ignore cloud costs because of broken feedback loops, not apathy. Learn what AI cost management is, why AEO matters more than ever, and how a cost management agent embeds accountability directly into engineering workflows. Engineers ignore cloud costs because cost data arrives too late and too disconnected from their workflow to act on.

model-right-sizer-schema is a Claude Code skill that designs the typed contract between one agent and the controller that dispatches it. Point it at an agent plus its controller and it returns a JSON prescription with typed in/out fields, an exclusion list that keeps raw logs out of the reply, a before/after size delta, then writes the contract into the agent's own file. It picks from nine portable output-shape families, or your repo's own.

Somewhere in every compliance program is a person who spends the week before an audit pulling logs out of several different systems, reconstructing who had access to what, and hoping the screenshots match what the auditor actually asks for. None of this work makes the system more secure. It just makes the existing security visible to someone who's checking. That gap, between the controls that are actually in place and the evidence that proves it, is where most audit prep time goes.

What does a typical day look like for the people working behind the scenes of a data centre? From hardware installations and cabling to troubleshooting, customer requests and supporting critical works, every shift brings something different. In this 'day in the life', Leon Strong, Data Centre Services Engineer for Maidenhead, shares what it’s like to work in a hands-on technical role, what they enjoy most and their advice for anyone considering a career in data centre engineering.

Why a Teams chat disappears or shows Unknown User after an employee's account is deleted, where the messages really are, the eDiscovery route, and how to keep leavers' chats.

Why a SharePoint or OneDrive file is marked Archived, who can reactivate it, how long it takes, the 120-day re-archive lock, and the file-level alternative that restores in one click.

What survives when a former employee comes back: the 30-day restore window, the unlicensed OneDrive clocks, inactive mailboxes, and how to give a returning employee their old data.

Most people rebuild the same handful of Explorer queries: the monthly close view, spend by team for the staff meeting, the filter set that isolates a service you’ve been watching for two months. When we shipped query history and favorites earlier this year, it gave you a way to save up to 12 Explorer configurations.