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Deployment strategies explained: types, trade-offs, and what each one actually costs

Jul 8, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
A deployment strategy is the method an engineering team uses to release new software to production. The six core deployment strategies are recreate (big bang), rolling update, blue-green, canary, A/B testing, and shadow deployment. Each trades off between downtime risk, rollback speed, infrastructure cost, and complexity. This guide covers all six along with what each strategy actually costs in cloud and AI infrastructure spend.
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megaport

Make Public Peering More Resilient with BFD and BGP Add-Path on MegaIX

Jul 8, 2026 By Gavin Tweedie In Megaport
Standard BGP can be slow to react. See how BFD and BGP Add-Path help improve uptime and path diversity on MegaIX. When peering on a public Internet Exchange (IX), standard BGP behavior can introduce delays during topology changes. But if you use MegaIX, there are workarounds. In this blog, we explain two lesser-used features available on MegaIX which maximize uptime and path diversity: Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) and BGP Add-Path.
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certkit

Certificate deployments just got an easy mode

Jul 8, 2026 By Todd H. Gardner In CertKit
The old deployment flow expected a lot from you. You had to know what format your certificate needed to be in. You had to know where it should be stored on the target system. Then you had to review and customize a deployment script in a code editor before anything ran. It turns out most of you don’t want to do that. And fair enough, staring at a script editor when you just want a certificate on your Exchange server is a little intimidating.
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gitkraken

GitLens 18.2: AI-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution for VS Code

Jul 8, 2026 By Jade Nangah In GitKraken
Merge conflicts rarely make it into a sprint retrospective, but they should. They’re one of the most reliable ways to lose an hour of flow without anyone noticing it’s gone. Every developer expects them eventually, but almost nobody questions the workflow around resolving them.
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cortex

DRIVE Deep Dive: Reliability

Jul 7, 2026 By Ganesh Datta In Cortex
This is the second post in our DRIVE Deep Dive series. Over the coming weeks we're examining each pillar of the DRIVE framework in turn, and mapping DRIVE against the frameworks engineering leaders already run on, including DORA and SPACE. For the complete model, download the full DRIVE framework. Our last post covered Delivery. Up next: Initiatives. --- AI has removed the last real constraint on producing code, and organizations are shipping more of it than ever.
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GitHub Copilot cost: what teams actually pay in 2026

Jul 7, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
The GitHub Copilot cost runs from $0 for the Free tier to $10/month for Pro, $39/month for Pro+, and $100/month for Max. Teams pay $19/user/month for Business and $39/user/month for Enterprise. The twist: on June 1, 2026 GitHub swapped fixed premium requests for usage-based AI Credits, so what those flat fees actually buy now depends on how hard you push the AI. The sticker price is the easy part. The part that ambushes finance is everything stacked on top of it.
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Amit explains AO

Jul 7, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
Most enterprises have observability tools. What they often lack is a shared view between application and infrastructure teams. When application performance degrades, finding the root cause can be slow because the data lives in separate silos. Virtana brings application observability and infrastructure intelligence together in a single platform, helping teams identify issues faster, collaborate more effectively, and shift from reactive troubleshooting to proactive operations.
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