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Today we’re announcing the CloudZero Claude Code Plugin, a new capability that puts CloudZero’s full cost intelligence model directly inside Claude Code, where engineers and technical FinOps practitioners already work. The plugin connects a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and nine pre-packaged investigation skills to CloudZero’s cost data, covering cloud and AI spend across AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.

Software Engineering is once again being forced to evolve. We are entering the era of infinite code where the cost of writing code tends to zero. The data tells us that companies are only moving 20% faster than when humans wrote code by hand. We’re writing orders of magnitude more code than ever, yet our processes are barely keeping up with what we had before. The chaos and complexity is only being amplified by this new shift in how we work as developers.

European organizations are facing growing data sovereignty demands. Discover options, benefits, and best practices for keeping your data local. Across Europe, organizations are rethinking how they manage their data. The reasons for this push are multi-layered. The U.S. Government’s approach to data privacy often contrasts with Europe’s generally tighter regulations – but recent geopolitical and regulatory shifts in the U.S.

Welcome to Beyond the horizon, a monthly series celebrating the people who shape Upsun’s culture, innovation, and heart. In this month’s edition, we’re featuring Ana Cidre, Director of Developer Advocacy at Upsun and one of the key voices shaping how developers experience our platform today and in the future.

The “agent vs agentless” debate usually comes up when teams are trying to choose an infrastructure automation approach that will not compromise security, compliance, or impact day-to-day operations. You need to manage a hybrid estate, avoid creating more work for already stretched teams, and ideally do it without stitching together multiple tools. That pressure often turns the conversation into a binary choice: which approach is better?

Short Summary: Different databases use different SQL syntax for simple tasks like subtracting days from a date. In this post, we show how these differences appear across databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and H2. We also explain how dbForge Edge helps teams work with them in one place while keeping application logic consistent.

Short Summary: Counting related records across multiple dependent tables can produce wrong totals or slow queries when standard joins are used. This article explains a more reliable way to do this by counting each table separately, applying date filters, and checking that the query still runs well on large datasets. Tools such as dbForge Edge can also help if needed.

Front-end deployment is usually introduced as the easy part of web app deployment. "Build the assets and push them." Seems simple, right? Yet on the contrary, those 6 words have most likely caused more production issues than most error messages. Because while front ends do look simple, they are actually a delicate stack of assumptions wearing a UI that is misleadingly easy to use.