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As the dotConnect team, we are proud to be a sponsor of the.NET Conf 2025. This landmark event highlighted the key advancements of the.NET ecosystem, from major releases to AI-powered tools and inspiring community-driven projects.

The Fabric Data Warehouse was built to solve one of analytics’ biggest challenges: fragmentation. When data is spread across separate tools for ingestion, modeling, and reporting, teams lose time, accuracy, and visibility. As part of the Microsoft Fabric ecosystem, the Data Warehouse addresses this by unifying every stage of the analytics process into a single, connected environment.

Data connectivity solutions are the bedrock of a solid database management strategy. Here’s why. Databases rarely work in isolation. They are constantly interacting with various apps and cloud platforms. As such, ensuring that this interaction flows seamlessly is critical. This is where your business data connectivity solution comes in. But here is the problem. There is no one-size-fits-all connectivity solution.

French and German leaders join forces in strategic partnership to bring flexibility and reliability to the European eCommerce market. After three years of successful collaboration, Shopware, the German-based European leader in open-source eCommerce, and Upsun, the French-based leading European Cloud Application Platform, are announcing a strategic partnership. Building on early success, with already 45 joint customers and growing, Shopware and Upsun are deepening their collaboration in 2026 and beyond.

Automating chaos engineering with Terraform eliminates manual setup across environments by enabling you to version control your entire chaos infrastructure, from service discovery to security governance policies. The Harness Terraform provider supports end-to-end automation including Kubernetes infrastructure setup, custom image registries, Git-based ChaosHub management, and granular security controls that ensure safe experiment execution in production.

You know that uneasy pause before opening your monitoring dashboard? The one where you're hoping nothing's broken—but a part of you knows something probably is. Performance issues often start quietly: a few slow endpoints, a checkout that takes longer than usual, a graph that looks a little off. Before long, those small signals turn into alerts and support tickets.

Running multiple LLMs without aggregation can feel like managing five different clouds with no dashboard. Sure, you can make it work, but you won’t like the bill. And most SaaS teams didn’t start with a multi-LLM strategy. It just happened. You added one model for reasoning, another for summarization, or maybe a fine-tuned version for customer support. Fast-forward six months, and your AI stack looks like a tangle of APIs. And each charges tokens on its own terms.

KubeCon Atlanta 2025 felt different this year — and CloudZero had a full team on the ground to capture it. Engineers, product leaders, sales reps, and CTO Erik Peterson spent three days embedded across the show floor. Their vantage points were complementary: the outbound conversations, the inbound questions, the demos, the technical deep-dives, and the quieter moments between sessions. Five perspectives stood out.

On October 29th, 2025, Azure Front Door suffered an outage that impacted Microsoft services on a global level, including Microsoft 365, Outlook, Xbox Live, Copilot, and more. It also affected Microsoft Azure, meaning companies like Costco, Starbucks, and Alaska Airlines ran into issues for both customer-facing and internal systems. The root of the issue was a misconfiguration in the data plane for Azure Front Door and the Azure Content Delivery Network.