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Some teams won’t touch DeepSeek because it’s Chinese. Others are quietly running pilots and rethinking how much reasoning and context they actually need, or can afford. For SaaS teams staring down runaway AI costs, DeepSeek’s mix of open-source freedom, massive context windows, and token rates 10–30X cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic is tough to ignore. However, DeepSeek pricing comes with cache hits, cache misses, off-peak discounts, that September pricing shift, and more.

When MIT released research showing that 95% of enterprise AI pilots fail to deliver measurable business impact, it made headlines for a reason. After years of heavy investment in artificial intelligence, the vast majority of organizations still haven’t moved beyond pilots that promise much but deliver little. This doesn’t mean AI itself is broken. In most cases, the technology performs as intended.

TL;DR If you’re still buying Azure reservations that match your exact VM size, you’re missing out. There’s an option called Size Flexibility that lets a single reservation apply to multiple VM sizes in the same family. In some cases, reserving the cheapest VM size in the group still fully covers the more expensive ones, saving you up to 40%.

Redgate Monitor now gives you full visibility into activity across Oracle Multitenant environments. With metrics and alerts at both the Container Database (CDB) and Pluggable Database (PDB) level, you can quickly pinpoint performance issues and ensure compliance. With the introduction of Oracle multitenant architecture in Oracle 12c, many teams began consolidating databases into a single Container database (CDB). This helped them to optimize resource usage and simplify patching.

Building Automation Systems (BAS) are integral to modern facility management, providing centralized control over a building’s mechanical and electrical systems. By automating these systems, BAS enhances occupant comfort, reduces energy consumption, and streamlines facility operations.

SSL certificates keep websites and apps secure, but in AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP), misconfigurations or expirations can still cause services to go offline. Why do these failures happen, and how can you prevent them?

When your Python app starts slowing down, maybe queries are taking longer, memory keeps creeping up, or API calls are lagging—basic server metrics won’t tell you why. You need to see what’s happening inside the application itself. That’s the role of Application Performance Monitoring (APM). It gives you a breakdown of database queries, external API calls, memory usage, error rates, and more, so you can connect the dots between code and performance.

Only a few weeks remain before Microsoft ends support for one of the most widely used operating systems of all time. Are you ready for what comes next?

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