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Azure cost calculator: how to estimate Azure spend before the bill does it for you

Jul 31, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
An Azure cost calculator is a tool that estimates your monthly Microsoft Azure bill before you deploy anything. Microsoft's official Azure pricing calculator covers 600+ services and produces free, exportable estimates. It is excellent at telling you what Azure charges and terrible at telling you what your teams will consume. This guide covers how to use it, what real workloads cost in 2026, and why estimates and invoices keep breaking up.
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What is FP&A? Financial planning and analysis in the AI spend era

Jul 31, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
FP&A stands for financial planning and analysis. It is the corporate finance function responsible for budgeting, forecasting, variance analysis, and decision support. If you're asking what is FP&A in practice: FP&A teams build the annual operating plan, project revenue and expenses, explain gaps between plan and actuals, and give leadership the numbers behind strategic decisions. Accounting reports what happened. FP&A models what happens next.
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LLM cost optimization: 7 strategies to cut inference spend

Jul 31, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
LLM cost optimization is the practice of cutting what you spend on large language models, mostly inference, without losing the quality that makes the AI worth running. The biggest levers are routing requests to cheaper models, caching repeated tokens, batching anything that can wait, trimming prompts, right-sizing models, cutting calls you do not need, and putting one gateway and cost view in front of all of it.
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Kepler Is in Public Preview: One Task, Every Repo, Every Agent

Jul 31, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
A faster car doesn’t get you home faster if the freeway is still jammed. That is the problem most teams run into once they add a second, third, or fourth AI coding agent to the mix. More agents generate more code. They do not automatically generate more finished work, because someone still has to track which agent is waiting on input, which one just opened a pull request, and which one has been quietly stuck for twenty minutes. Kepler is GitKraken’s answer to that traffic jam.
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Cloud 66

Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon is Now Supported!

Jul 31, 2026 By Vic van Gool In Cloud 66
We are excited to announce support for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Resolute Raccoon on all Cloud 66 products, including registered servers. From this point onward, new applications are provisioned on Ubuntu 26.04 by default, on both x86_64 and ARM64. Don't forget, you can control your target Ubuntu version via the selection dropdown when scaling up via the UI, or through your manifest!
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cortex

The 2026 pocket guide to engineering metrics

Jul 31, 2026 By Cortex In Cortex
Most engineering leaders are drowning in data but starved for insight. We have dashboards full of metrics, but they often create more questions than answers and rarely tell us what to do next. In the age of AI, where development velocity is accelerating at an unprecedented rate, this problem is only getting worse. Shipping code faster than you can fix it is an existential risk, and a dashboard that doesn't lead to action is just a distraction.
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Netdata AI & MCP: Root cause in one investigation

Jul 30, 2026 By Netdata In netdata
An alert tells you what changed. It rarely tells you why. That answer usually lives somewhere else: the pull request that shipped minutes earlier, the incident already open in PagerDuty, the runbook sitting in Confluence. Netdata AI can now reach those systems directly. Through the Model Context Protocol, it connects to the tools your team already runs and reads from them while it investigates. It pulls that context alongside the metrics, logs and anomalies Netdata detects on every node, then reasons across both.
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Your platform is your business, encoded onto your infra, with Syntasso's Abby Bangser

Jul 30, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex
Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Abby Bangser, a platform engineering leader at Syntasso and former lead of the CNCF Platforms Working Group, to talk about why AI agents need real platform APIs, not raw cloud credentials.
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