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KubeCon Atlanta Signals Key Shift: From Cloud Cost To Value Engineering

After three days of demos, sessions, and hallway conversations at KubeCon Atlanta, one thing became clear to CloudZero CTO Erik Peterson: the cloud-native world is shifting from cost control to value engineering. Teams aren’t just fighting bills anymore. They’re fighting complexity, GPU scarcity, Kubernetes sprawl, and pressure from the business to justify every dollar of technical investment. And this year’s KubeCon attendees? They were ready for those conversations.

AWS And Azure Outages Will Recur - Here's How You Ensure Resilience

The cloud has long promised limitless scalability and near-perfect uptime. But if you tried to access your Microsoft 365 dashboard or recline your smart bed last week, and got nothing but a spinning icon, you weren’t alone. In the span of 10 days, both Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Microsoft’s Azure Cloud suffered widespread outages that rippled across industries.

Maintaining Software Excellence in the Age of AI Coding Assistance

In this preview of his AWS re:Invent session, Cortex CTO & Co-Founder Ganesh Datta breaks down how AI coding assistants are transforming software development, and what high-performing teams are doing to keep speed and reliability in balance. You’ll learn: If you care about AI, engineering velocity, or building sustainable systems, this is a must-watch. Full Session: December 3 at 2:30 PM Learn more about Cortex: go.cortex.io/reinvent.

Strengthening Open Source Facter: Ensuring Compatibility and Essential Maintenance

Over the course of 2025, the Puppet Core team has been committed to developing secure, hardened Puppet code that our customers can rely on. As part of that shift, many Puppet platform components, including Facter, were brought under the Puppet Core model and were moved into private repositories.

Which Data Connectivity Product to Choose: ODBC, SSIS, Excel, or Python

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.

Microsoft Fabric Data Warehouse: Features, Benefits, and Use Cases

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.

.NET Conf 2025 Highlights: Unlocking the Future With .NET 10 and AI Innovations

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.

Shopware and Upsun expand strategic partnership to accelerate European eCommerce innovation and secure digital sovereignty

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.