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Traffic Replay: Production Without Production Risk

Aug 13, 2025 By Kristopher Sandoval In Speedscale
The software and product life cycle is fraught with pitfalls and tradeoffs. While testing applications under production-like load is critical to ensuring the reliability, performance, and security of your data storage and software services, you need to do this testing without actually affecting the production data and systems. In essence, you have to pull off the impossible - be as close to production as you can without actually being production.
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Amazon Kinesis Pricing Explained: A 2025 Guide

Aug 13, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Kinesis is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) product that collects, processes, and analyzes streaming data in real-time. It can process streaming video, audio, IoT data, application logs, and other data as it arrives from thousands of unique sources, unlike technologies like Hadoop, which utilize batch processing (waiting for a complete dataset to arrive before processing and analyzing it).
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Stop Trying To Cut Cloud Costs, Start Trying To Price AI Correctly

Aug 13, 2025 By Greg Barrette In CloudZero
Most SaaS companies aren’t spending too much on AI. They’re just completely screwing up how they price it. You feel the budget pressure. The OpenAI and Anthropic bills keep climbing. Finance is starting to twitch. So the instinct is to cut. Trim back experiments. Cap usage. Beg your team to “optimize.” You can’t cost-cut your way out of a pricing failure though. And most of the time, that’s all this is — a pricing failure.
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How HireVue Turned Cloud Cost Chaos Into A Competitive Edge

Aug 13, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
When you’re a global leader in AI-assisted hiring, speed matters. Not just in matching candidates to jobs, but in making the engineering and financial decisions that keep your platform running efficiently. For HireVue, fragmented infrastructure, manual processes, and sprawling spreadsheets turned cloud cost management into a time-consuming spelunking expedition.
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15+ Best Docker Alternatives For Containers And Beyond

Aug 12, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero
Although container-related technology existed before 2013, Docker revolutionized and propelled it into the mainstream. Using Docker, developers could automatically create containers from application source code, share libraries, and reuse containers. Docker enables you to track container image versions, roll back to an earlier iteration, and track who built a specific one. You can even upload only the deltas between two versions.
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Why Sustainable Cloud Starts With The Bottom Line - Not Before

Aug 12, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
If you want to align green awareness with bottom-line impact, start by looking at your cloud waste. Not just as a budget problem, but also as wasted energy, because that’s exactly what it is. AI, especially, is a mounting factor. Deloitte’s Tech Trends 2025 report highlights the growing energy demands of large AI models, warning that electricity use in data centers could soon rival that of entire nations like Sweden or Germany.
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Product Klip: Komodor's Advanced Cost Optimization Capabilities

Aug 11, 2025 By Komodor In Komodor
This Product Klip covers Komodor's cost optimization features, highlighting how the platform helps users reduce Kubernetes spending while maintaining operational stability. Key features discussed include: Before activation, Komodor provides simulations of potential savings, and for activated clusters, it shows CPU and memory usage before and after Komodor's bin packing and the resulting dollar savings. Komodor enhances existing autoscalers rather than replacing them, unlocking up to 40% in additional savings.
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How To Run Monthly Cloud Cost Meetings For AI Teams

Aug 7, 2025 By Greg Barrette In CloudZero
If you’ve ever stared at your cloud bill and thought, “How on earth did this get so crazy?” — you’re not alone. Especially when AI workloads come into play, those GPU costs can feel like a runaway train. The good news? It doesn’t have to be that way. The magic happens when you’ve got someone from every team that cares about smart growth (FinOps, AI/ML, product, engineering, whatever) all in one room, looking at the same set of numbers.
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The Impending SaaS Crisis: How AI Is Disrupting SaaS - And How You Can Prepare

Aug 6, 2025 By Phil Pergola In CloudZero
At CloudZero’s most recent company retreat, we held an investor panel, where representatives from four of the VC firms investing in CloudZero fielded questions from our team. Unsurprisingly, a good deal of the conversation revolved around AI. A standout moment from this panel came when one investor described a vibe coding session he’d done about a month prior. “Vibe coding,” for the uninitiated, means using AI to build an application without writing any actual code yourself.
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