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A Guide To Azure Database Pricing (And Reducing Costs)

You spun up Azure SQL for your app backend, added Cosmos DB for global performance, and let your devs explore PostgreSQL freely. Everything worked — until the invoice hit. Your engineers need high availability and performance. Your CFO wants predictability. And you’re stuck trying to untangle what, exactly, is driving your Azure bill. You’re not alone. Between service types, pricing tiers, and throughput models, Azure database pricing can surprise even experienced teams.

Enterprise Drupal: why hosting choice impacts your success

Deploying a large-scale Drupal application involves numerous decisions, and one of the most significant is where to host it. Should you keep everything on-premises, use a managed hosting provider, or opt for a modern PaaS like Upsun? Each approach has trade-offs. In this article, we’ll dive into the real-world technical pitfalls of on-premises and managed hosting, and then explore how Upsun addresses those challenges in an enterprise Drupal context.

Get Ready for the Next Level of Gaming!

Recorded at Civo Navigate Austin 2025, join industry experts from Perforce, Gametree, and Streamfog as they share their insights on the current state of technology in gaming, cloud-native technologies, and the future of tech in gaming. This panel discussion explores the latest trends and innovations in game development, AI-powered gaming, and emerging business models, revealing how the gaming industry is leveraging cloud-native technologies, AI, and other cutting-edge tech to drive innovation and growth.

Kubernetes Cost Optimization Done Right

Kubernetes was never just about cost savings. It was built to be a robust, scalable, and efficient platform for orchestrating containerized applications. And it was meant to abstract infrastructure away so developers could move quickly and go about their business of developing. But as Kubernetes adoption scaled, so did cloud bills. FinOps tools emerged to rein in spending, but most only scratch the surface.

NAT Management Made Easy: See Every Translation

Network Address Translation (NAT) is foundational in today’s enterprise and cloud networks, yet NAT documentation often remains an afterthought, managed in spreadsheets or skipped entirely. This creates unnecessary complexity, security blind spots, and wasted IP resources. At LightMesh, we believe IP address management (IPAM) should include intuitive tools to track NAT configurations just as easily as subnets and IP assignments.

CPU monitoring for network admins: Why it matters more than ever

In your role as a network administrator, maintaining smooth, uninterrupted system performance isn’t just a one-time task; it’s your daily mission. Whether you're managing hundreds of endpoints, virtual machines, or hybrid cloud environments, CPU monitoring is one of the most critical tools in your toolkit. Without it, diagnosing performance slowdowns, service lags, or outages becomes reactive guesswork.

13: Effective Resource Optimization and Kubernetes Insights with Daniele Polencic

Kubernetes, container resources, request and limits, sizing, the impact of getting things wrong, CPU limits, JVMs, HPA and VPA, does Karpenter fix the request and limit problem? We’ve got a great episode for you today! Thanks for joining us on Densify Talks! We welcome Daniele Polencic, one of the lead instructors at LearnK8s, which specializes in containers and Kubernetes technologies.