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Best VPS Providers in 2026: Ranking by Price, Performance, and Support Quality

Best VPS Providers in 2026: Ranking by Price, Performance, and Support Quality

Mar 23, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Choosing a VPS provider directly impacts application performance, service availability, and overall infrastructure costs. While dozens of companies offer virtual servers, the real differences in performance, server geography, and support quality are substantial.
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spike

How to set up Incident Alert Routing rules effectively

Mar 21, 2026 By Sreekar In Spike
When an incident triggers, the question is not just what broke but also how urgent it is and who on your team needs to respond. Alert Routing rules answer those questions automatically. You define the conditions once and the right response follows every time an incident triggers. Every Alert Routing rule does one or more of these three things: Three conditions drive all of it: incident payload, time of occurrence, and frequency.
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speedscale

The Hidden AI Bill: Why Non-Prod LLM Costs Spiral

Mar 20, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Most teams know they are spending money on AI in production. Far fewer realize how much they are spending outside production. It’s easy to get lost as you evaluate which model has the best responses, is fast enough, and cheap enough to run in production. That is because the AI bill usually shows up as a giant blob. It is easy to see the total.
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virtualmetric

VirtualMetric DataStream + Splunk: Pre-Ingest CIM Normalization Without the TA Tax

Mar 20, 2026 By VirtualMetric In VirtualMetric
Splunk is built around a deceptively simple premise: get your data in, search it, and act on it. In practice, the gap between “get your data in” and “data that actually works in Splunk ES” is where most of the engineering effort goes. CIM normalization is non-trivial. Technology Add-on development is slow. Volume-based licensing penalizes growth. And the combination means that as environments expand, Splunk becomes harder to operate efficiently.
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How to Set Up AWS Direct Connect with Megaport

Mar 20, 2026 By Megaport In Megaport
This step-by-step guide shows how easy it is to connect to AWS using Megaport. In this video, we cover: Provisioning an AWS Direct Connect Port in your chosen data center Selecting your AWS region Finding your ASN and AWS Account ID in the AWS Management Console Specifying your VLANs Attaching the virtual gateway for your VPC.
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Feature Friday: Using Entity Relationship Types to Map the Perfect March Madness Bracket

Mar 20, 2026 By Cortex | Engineering Operations Platform In Cortex
Can an EngOps Platform help you win your family March Madness pool? It’s that time of year again, and the stakes are high. Despite watching hundreds of hours of basketball, we're tired of losing bets to a mom who barely follows the sport. This year, we’re leveling the playing field using Cortex. In this, we’re moving beyond microservices to show you the power of Entity Relationship Types. Watch as we take a chaotic tournament bracket and turn it into a structured, navigable engineering ecosystem.
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Resolve's Zero Ticket Minute - Ep. 15 #agenticai #itautomation #aiautomation

Mar 20, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
Agentic AI can act, decide, and resolve on its own. Powerful, but it comes with real risk. Without the right guardrails, autonomy can lead to data exposure, compliance issues, and unintended actions at scale. This episode shows how to keep control with governed, deterministic automation.
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