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datadog

How we saved over $3 million in idle compute costs with Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling

Jun 25, 2026 By Jacob Simonov In Datadog
At Datadog, our broad Kubernetes footprint amplifies the significance of a familiar autoscaling tradeoff: Overprovisioning wastes cloud spend, while underprovisioning threatens reliability. We built Datadog Kubernetes Autoscaling (DKA) to help teams rightsize their workloads by generating intelligent resource recommendations and automating multidimensional workload scaling. Across Datadog, adopting DKA has eliminated more than $3 million in annualized idle compute costs while reducing reliability risks.
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Kubex

How Kubernetes Operators May Conflict With Resource Optimization (And How to Avoid It)

Jun 25, 2026 By Kubex In Densify
A Kubernetes Operator is a method of packaging, deploying, and managing a Kubernetes application. It extends the native Kubernetes API by combining custom resources (CRDs) with a dedicated controller: a custom control loop that continuously watches the state of those resources. The primary purpose of an operator is to automate complex, stateful applications (like databases, message queues, or monitoring suites) that require human operational knowledge to maintain.
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squared up

Getting started with Microsoft Defender dashboards

Jun 25, 2026 By Blog In Squared Up
Microsoft Defender does a great job protecting you and your organization from online threats. It is constantly working to detect and collect security data so you don’t have to worry about falling behind on incidents and vulnerabilities. The Defender portal can also provide great insights into that data, but connecting it to the rest of your stack is difficult.
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nexthink

The End of Self-Service IT as We Know It

Jun 25, 2026 By Chanté Frazer In Nexthink
The modern service desk is not short on entry points. In fact, employees can open a portal, search a knowledge base, start a chatbot conversation, or submit a ticket from almost anywhere. In theory, that should mean fewer queues and faster resolution. But if access to IT has improved so dramatically, why has the operational burden behind each interaction barely moved?
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How AI is changing platform engineering

Jun 25, 2026 By Civo In Civo
AI is changing software development fast. But what does that actually mean for platform engineering teams? In this conversation, Civo's John Dietz and M R Rishi dig into what they're seeing on the ground, the 10x effect of AI on app count, what it means for platform team workloads, the debugging skills that are quietly being lost, and whether Kubernetes itself might eventually become just another abstraction.
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eg innovations

Full Stack Observability vs Monitoring: Key Differences

Jun 25, 2026 By Chandni Verma In eG Innovations
Traditional monitoring tracks system health by collecting data such as metrics and logs, this data is checked to see if a system is behaving as expected and alerts are raised if errors or anomalous data values are found. This works well in stable, predictable environments, but modern IT systems are far more complex and dynamic. In distributed architectures like microservices and cloud-native platforms, predefined alerts usually aren’t enough to explain why a failure is happening.
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What is AIOps? Benefits, Use Cases, and How It Transforms IT Operations

Jun 25, 2026 By Venkat Narayanan In eG Innovations
Decades ago, IT operations was relatively simple, with a few components such as client, server, network, and the static environments. IT teams relied on manual analysis to manage these systems. Over time, however, IT operations has evolved significantly, driving the adoption of AIOps technologies.
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atlassian

Agentic Pipelines now supports OpenAI Codex

Jun 25, 2026 By Ash Moosa In Atlassian
Bring your Codex agent into Bitbucket Pipelines. A few weeks ago, we announced support for Claude agents in Bitbucket Pipelines. Today, we’re adding OpenAI Codex as a supported agent. If your team is already using Codex on the desktop, you can now move that same workflow into your pipeline — triggered by a merge, a schedule, a failing build, or a pull request comment.
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Turbo360 for System Integrators: Grow Your Azure Practice

Jun 25, 2026 By Turbo360 In Turbo360
If you deliver Azure integration solutions for clients, this video is for you. Fragmented tooling, unpredictable bills, and support incidents that eat into your consultancy time — these are the problems that limit how fast SI partners can scale. Turbo360 helps you solve all three, and turn each one into a business growth opportunity. In this video, Turbo360 CTO Mike Stephenson (Microsoft MVP) walks through how system integrator partners are using Turbo360 to deliver better outcomes for clients, reduce support overhead, and build managed service revenue alongside their integration practice.
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