Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Multi-cloud cost management has quickly evolved from a nice-to-have capability to a core expectation with the accelerated adoption of the cloud. Organizations that depend on managed service providers (MSPs) for cloud operations now look to them for financial clarity as well. Now, MSPs are not only expected to monitor and manage cloud usage, but also to act as trusted cost advisors. They must deliver transparency, predictability, and strong governance across all the cloud environments their customers use.

Every developer who’s worked with PostgreSQL knows the pain: testing against a real database slows everything down. You need the database running locally, loaded with the right data, and configured to match production as closely as possible. Every time you run a new test or build, you’re forced to repeat that setup migrate schemas, seed test data, and clean everything up again. It’s time-consuming, brittle, and hard to scale across a team.

In today’s dynamic and challenging technology landscape, having a robust Digital Experience (DEX) solution is essential. However, it’s the expertise behind it that truly makes the difference. At Almaden, our greatest strength lies not only in the code of our software, but in the world-class intellectual capital that guides our vision and operations.

FinOps continues to grow in importance as organizations balance cloud services with on-prem systems, legacy applications, and evolving business demands. Many teams want to manage their costs more effectively but are unsure how to apply a FinOps strategy for hybrid IT outside the cloud.

In today’s digital workplace, speed and precision in IT support can make or break the employee experience. Long resolution times, repetitive troubleshooting, and lack of visibility often frustrate both users and support teams. That’s where Nexthink comes in—bringing powerful capabilities like Amplify, Device View,and Assist to transform how Service Desk teams operate.

Nishad Krishnan is a Software Engineer at Temporal Technologies, where he’s focused on observability and making the “unknown unknowns” slightly less unknown. At Temporal Technologies, our goal is to make it easier for developers to build and operate reliable, scalable applications without sacrificing productivity. Our platform, Temporal, helps ensure that code runs to completion once started, no matter how long it takes or what failures occur along the way.

I admit I was a little skeptical going into KubeCon 2025. The last time I went, in 2022, it felt tactical. I heard lots of conversations around small solutions to small problems. Practical knowledge-sharing is of course beneficial, but I’m most inspired by the big picture — ideally, a picture bigger than you can see anywhere outside of your mind. I’m heartened to say that KubeCon 2025 was exactly that.

The Ingress NGINX Controller is approaching retirement, which has pushed many teams to evaluate their long-term ingress strategy. The familiar Ingress resource has served well, but it comes with clear limits: annotations that differ by vendor, limited extensibility, and few options for separating operator and developer responsibilities. The Gateway API addresses these challenges with a more expressive, standardized, and portable model for service networking.