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Shipped: Smarter period comparisons in Explorer

Compare Periods launched with two display modes: Aligned and Overlay. The top request from customers was bringing back a true side-by-side view, the kind where two independent charts sit next to each other so you can compare the overall shape of each period. Split brings that back. But the team also added Delta, a new mode that shows the dollar difference between periods.

Why Most Enterprise AI Agent Programs Overspend, and What Actually Fixes It

Enterprise AI agent programs overspend because leaders optimize token costs, which represent just 20-25% of variable run costs. Human oversight accounts for 70-75%. The real fix is reducing exception rates and embedding governance directly into agent execution from the start.

How Bits Database Optimization proves a query rewrite is faster

A frequently encountered issue when exploring database optimizations is proving that a proposed query rewrite is actually faster than the existing query. Often, proving this isn’t just as simple as running both queries and comparing their execution times. When your hot queries are measured in milliseconds, factors such as cache states, concurrent queries competing for CPU and I/O, and noisy neighbors can mask the true performance difference between query versions.

Troubleshoot and secure your code faster with Datadog's Bitbucket Cloud Source Code integration

Developers and SREs who use Bitbucket Cloud often need to move between their source code, observability data, test results, and security findings to investigate a problem. Connecting an error or slow method to the correct repository, file, and commit takes time. Teams may also discover vulnerabilities, infrastructure misconfigurations, coverage regressions, or flaky tests only after code has progressed further through the software development life cycle, when remediation is more disruptive.

NestJS v12 Ships Native Observability: What It Means for Your APM

NestJS 12 dropped last week with ESM packages, Standard Schema validation, a rebuilt CLI, and a brand-new observability SDK. That last one is the most interesting part for anyone running NestJS in production with an APM tool. At Scout Monitoring, we instrument NestJS applications through our Node.js agent. A framework shipping its own observability layer changes the conversation for every APM vendor in the ecosystem, including us. Here is what you need to know.

Your next internal developer platform is a library of agent skills

What happens when AI agents become direct users of your infrastructure? Michael Kutsch, Staff SRE and Team Lead for Cloud Foundations at PostHog, argues that the next internal developer platform may be a library of agent skills. Instead of forcing every task through a portal, his team is giving agents structured context, reusable workflows, and deterministic scripts they can call when reliability and governance matter.

10 Top Hyper-V Management Tools for Single Hosts, Clusters and Hybrid Infrastructure

An application slows down every month-end. You open Hyper-V Manager, the virtual machine looks healthy, and the ticket closes without a cause. Next month it happens again. Native consoles show live state and keep no history behind it, so nobody can prove whether the fault was the guest, the host, or a storage path shared with nine other workloads. That gap sets what a Hyper-V deployment costs to run, measured in unplanned downtime and in engineering hours spent guessing. This guide covers.

What is Network Visibility and How do you Achieve It?

What happens when the segment that failed was never reporting to anything? The incident stops being a diagnosis and turns into a search, and the cost of that search lands on the business rather than on the network team. Network visibility measures how much of your environment can account for itself under pressure. Most teams assume their coverage is broadly complete because their monitoring platform reports thousands of healthy objects.

How to Build a Full-Stack App on Lovable with a Production-Ready Aiven Database

Lovable is fast at the part that used to take a week. Describe an application, and you have a working interface in minutes. Lovable already has an answer for the backend. Its built-in Cloud backend is enabled by default and runs on Supabase's open-source foundation, and you can connect your own Supabase project instead. Both are reasonable places to start. Neither puts the database in an account you already own, in the cloud and region you picked, next to the rest of your data platform.