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Streamlining your NIS2 and DORA compliance solution with HAProxy

With NIS2 and DORA now in effect, EU organizations face a fundamental shift in how they approach security. Compliance is a standard built into every layer of your environment, from your hardware and OS to your software configuration. HAProxy alone doesn't make an organization compliant, yet it serves as a critical technical component of a strong security strategy.

OpAMP for OpenTelemetry: Managing Collector Fleets and Introducing the New OpAMP Gateway Extension

Today, Bindplane is launching the OpAMP Gateway Extension in alpha — a new component that extends OpAMP fleet management into network-segmented and firewalled environments where direct agent-to-server connectivity is not possible. It also addresses fleet scaling by fanning many agent connections into a small upstream pool, reducing connection load on the OpAMP server. We also hope to donate the OpAMP Gateway Extension upstream to the OpenTelemetry project and welcome community contributions.

The Obkio Story: Building a Network Observability & Diagnostics Solution

In 2016, before Obkio existed, we ran a market audit. We interviewed banks, manufacturing companies, and service providers, and asked them one simple question: Why aren't you using a Network Performance Monitoring solution? The answer was unanimous: the tools were too complex, and nobody had the internal resources to run them full-time. If that was true for enterprises with dedicated networking staff, it was even more true for smaller businesses with generalist IT teams.

The Best FP&A Software For 2026: 21 Tools To Know

Modern FP&A tools help SaaS businesses analyze financial performance in real time, forecast accurately, and align spend with business priorities — especially cloud spend, which can quickly spiral without visibility. Choosing the right FP&A tool for your business means understanding what you actually need it to do — whether that’s cloud cost visibility, more accurate forecasting, or tighter alignment between finance and engineering.

How CloudZero Measures Cost Per Customer (Step By Step)

Like most SaaS companies, CloudZero uses its own product. When we released cost per customer reporting, we tested it on ourselves first. And today, we use cost per customer reports regularly. Why? Because they help leadership answer board and renewal questions, including customer-level margins. Cost per customer is valuable and hard to get right. Multi-tenant systems and Kubernetes can hide the link between shared infrastructure (like EC2) and the customers using it.

How Long Does Deep Research Take? We Timed 5 Tasks With & Without AI

How long does deep research take? That's a million dollar kind question if you've ever lost a weekend to digging through sources for a report. You already know the pain of hours of searching, reading, and synthesizing, only to wonder if you missed something crucial. We gathered experiment data comparing traditional research methods against modern AI tools across five common professional tasks. The exact time savings we measured might surprise you, and they reveal how AI is quietly redefining what it means to be a deep researcher.

Wireless Intercom Headset System: How to Choose, Deploy, and Communicate Without Limits

Wired communication systems have a hard ceiling. The cable defines your range, restricts your movement, and creates a single point of failure every time someone trips, pulls, or unplugs. For a construction foreman moving between floors, a stage manager coordinating backstage logistics, or a security supervisor monitoring a venue perimeter, that constraint is not a minor inconvenience - it is a direct limit on operational effectiveness.

What To Look For in a Portable Water Sampler

Choosing a portable water sampler is not a straightforward task. This means selecting a gear that enables your field testing to be consistent and accurate. But there are several features relevant to the specific sampler use. If you are wondering which model best fits the sampling needs, understanding these attributes will enable you to choose the one that works effectively and fulfills all your needs.

Observability vs Monitoring: Why the Difference Still Matters in Complex Systems

In modern infrastructure, the words observability and monitoring are often used as if they mean the same thing. That shortcut sounds harmless, but it creates real confusion inside technical teams and business discussions. The two ideas are connected, yet they solve different problems. In simple systems, the gap may feel small. In complex systems, the gap becomes impossible to ignore because the cost of misunderstanding it usually appears during failure, not during routine operation.

Build vs buy: choosing the right video hosting infrastructure for your platform

For engineering teams building video-heavy products, build vs buy is one of the most consequential infrastructure decisions you'll face. Building in-house offers control but adds significant operational overhead; buying managed hosting trades some customisation for reliability and speed to market. This guide covers the real criteria behind the decision, and how dedicated video hosting platforms can streamline your global video infrastructure.