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New: Status modal integration is here!

At StatusGator, our mission is to make status transparency effortless—for you and your users. Today, we’re introducing a new way to keep your users informed in real time: the Status Modal Embed. Now you can display a compact, customizable modal on your website that shows the current status of your services—incidents, maintenance, or full operational status—all with a direct link to your full status page.

2025 Cloud Pricing Comparison: An In-Depth Guide

Over $44.5 billion in cloud spend goes to waste annually, per the FinOps Foundation. No wonder reducing unnecessary costs is critical to protecting your margins. A logical place to start? Cloud service pricing. Providers like AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud continue to evolve their pricing models. They are offering new discounts, regional rates, and shifting commitments. All to win your business. Yet, a cloud pricing comparison alone doesn’t give you a complete picture.

Smart Ring Development (Part 1) Research and Prototype

This series of articles discusses the development of a SOTA Open Smart Ring - a tiny wearable packed with electronics that fits on your (even the smallest) finger. We dive deep into what it means to develop such a product, its challenges, and ultimately, how to make it a manufacturable and usable piece.

DevEx Unpacked 004 - Scaling Startups, Blockchain & Developer Culture with Jack Spargo

Episode 004: In this episode of DevEx Unpacked, Alan Carson chats with Jack Spargo, CTO of Control Alt, about his fascinating career journey from aerospace engineering to leading blockchain-powered investment platforms. Jack shares lessons from being acquired overnight, the challenges of building a platform from scratch, and why he’s betting big on junior engineers and AI augmentation. They explore the realities of compliance, software supply chain security, and why Northern Ireland is fast becoming a serious start-up hub.

An Introduction to Bitbucket Pipelines

This video provides a 90-second introduction to Bitbucket Pipelines to help you get started with CI/CD in Bitbucket. Bitbucket pipes, which are reusable pipeline steps, are introduced. About Atlassian: Behind every great human achievement, there is a team. From medicine and space travel to disaster response and pizza deliveries, we help teams all over the planet advance humanity through the power of software. Our mission is to help unleash the potential of every team.

Anbox Cloud 1.26.0: what's new?

In this video, Anbox team covers new features and changes in Anbox Cloud 1.26.0 release: Deployment and operations Instance management Logging Dashboard enhancements Images Streaming CVEs What is Anbox Cloud? Anbox Cloud lets you run virtualized Android environments securely, at any scale, to any device letting you focus on your use case. Run Android in system containers, not emulators, on AWS, OCI, Azure, GCP or your private cloud with ultra low streaming latency.

Observability trends in Japan: Insights from Grafana Labs' latest survey

Japanese organizations are focused on controlling costs and limiting complexity—and they might be getting ready to broaden their adoption at just the right time, according to analysis of a micro survey on observability recently conducted by Grafana Labs. Observability is an evolving space in Japan, and this is the first time Grafana Labs has run a Japanese version of our annual Observability Survey.

Invisible dependencies, visible impact: Lessons from the Google Cloud outage

June 12, 2025. A date most of the Internet won’t remember — but anyone relying on Google Cloud will. In the span of minutes, a routine quota update snowballed into global disruption. APIs stopped responding. Dashboards stayed green. And across continents, teams scrambled to figure out if the problem was theirs — or Google's. It wasn’t a cyberattack. It wasn’t a datacenter fire.