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July brought good news, if you’re in the mood for some fresh new opportunities to learn about cost optimization and streamline your FinOps strategy. Check out these updates, hot off the press: Enjoy!

To celebrate one of our biggest milestones so far, we reflect on the journey we've taken to get here alongside our incredible partners and customers. Megaport has just hit a milestone that has been over a decade in the making: 1,000 Megaport-enabled locations worldwide. This achievement is more than just a nice, round number – it means Megaport is now available in 10% of all data centers globally. In this industry, that’s a massive deal.

“You fixed a bug in QA — great! But did that fix go into version control and get tested and deployed everywhere? If not, you just created drift, and more problems down the line.” Peter Kruis, Microsoft SQL Engineer at Monin Fixing a bug in the environment where it appears feels like progress, but without a proper process, it creates fragility everywhere else.

“We want developers to break things – just not for the customers. If all our tests are green, I get nervous that we’re not testing deep enough.” Naga Santhosh Reddy Vootukuri, Principal Software Eng. Manager, Microsoft Azure SQL Naga Santhosh, Sunny to most, leads a team that ships changes to Azure SQL databases worldwide. Those deployments must be fast, frequent, and invisible to customers. That kind of reliability doesn’t come from playing it safe during development.