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Cloud services have become an indispensable resource for businesses seeking agility, scalability, and innovation. However, with this increased reliance on the cloud comes the challenge of managing and optimizing costs effectively. For Chief Financial Officers (CFOs), understanding and tracking cloud cost metrics is crucial to maintaining financial health and ensuring strategic investments yield the desired returns.

Self-hosted or fully managed? Learn how mid-size engineering teams can pick the right hosting strategy for control, cost, and scalability.

If you’re stuck choosing between PagerDuty vs. Spike for alerting, you’re in the right place. I wrote this blog post to help you make a clear choice. To do this, I signed up for both tools and ran a full, hands-on comparison to see which one performs better in real-world scenarios. This detailed analysis will show you the key differences, declare a clear winner based on a 25-point scoring system, and give you the confidence to pick the right tool for your team. Let’s get started.

In this ecosystem update, we share details of 11 new data centre locations now available on the Console Connect platform, along with new global on-ramps across the ''big three'' cloud providers. Across the U.S., we’ve expanded our footprint in New Jersey, Florida, Utah, and Ohio, giving you access to more local data centres with ultra low-latency connectivity.

A PostgreSQL setup that performed well with 10,000 users starts to show strain at 100,000. Queries that once returned in under 50ms now take over 2 seconds. The connection pool regularly hits its limit during peak usage, leading to timeouts and degraded performance. This blog focuses on practical ways to reduce query latency by 50–80% and increase throughput for high-concurrency environments.

You’ve made it to Senior engineer. Now what? You’re now staring at the next level, Staff typically, sometimes Principal, or whatever your company calls it. The path feels murky. Your manager gives you feedback like “show more technical leadership” or “think bigger picture”, but what does that actually mean day-to-day? I’ve been there. I’ve also been on the other side, helping engineers grow through whatever explicit (or implicit) levels a company has.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things."—Phil Karlton In the age of increasingly frequent deploys, edge caching, and Jamstack adoption, caching plays a key role across the software delivery life cycle. In build and CI pipelines, caching compiled assets or dependencies helps reduce compute costs, speed up job runtimes, and lower the environmental impact (regarding energy usage) of repeated builds.