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The Great Cloud Repatriation: Why UK Businesses Are Bringing Data Home

More UK organisations are treating cloud location as a governance risk decision, because incidents and audits expose questions around jurisdiction, access and evidence. Recent research found that 87% of respondents plan to partially or fully move workloads away from the public cloud over the next two years, with 54% considering private cloud, 38% exploring greater reliance on their own data centres, and 36% assessing colocation.

What Are Blue-Green Deployments? | Understanding the Trade-offs

In this video, Eric Minick from Harness explains the fundamentals of blue-green deployments and how they help maintain a seamless user experience. Key topics covered include: Whether you are looking for fast rollbacks or safer production testing, blue-green deployments offer a powerful strategy for modern software delivery. Learn more about Blue-Green Deployments: If you enjoyed this video, consider subscribing to the channel for more videos.

Let's Tune Our AWS Aurora PostgreSQL Database

In case you don't know the back story, in order for me to play with radios and label it "work," I've created a PostgreSQL database running on AWS Aurora. The db is fed from API calls to aprs.fi through Lambda functions on AWS. Some of the DDL & code is mine. Some is from Claude. Neither of us paid much attention to indexing when we were putting things together.

Introducing FlexCore: Private cloud, zero complexity

Join us for a practical introduction to FlexCore, a fully managed private cloud appliance from Civo that delivers the simplicity and experience of public cloud, directly on your own premises. FlexCore brings managed Kubernetes, compute, storage, networking, databases, and GPU acceleration together in a single, self-contained platform, operated end-to-end by Civo. You provide the space and power; Civo handles everything else.

How A Finance Director Found $30K/Month In AI Savings In 10 Minutes

A real workflow showing how Claude + CloudZero MCP turns plain-English questions into actionable cost intelligence — no dashboards, no tickets, no waiting As Director of Finance and Accounting at a software company, my job can be described simply: Understand what we’re spending, who’s responsible, and whether we can get more efficient. But as anyone who’s had to wrangle AI costs knows, doing so for AI is anything but simple.