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Chargeback Vs. Showback: Choosing The Right Cost Allocation Model For FinOps

One of the most challenging aspects of running a SaaS business is dealing with highly variable costs. Every service you provide needs resources, and the demand for those resources fluctuates. Just when you think you’ve got this quarter’s budget nailed down, an engineer makes a restructuring decision or a new feature launch exceeds expectations (or falls flat). Suddenly, your bill looks totally different than what you were expecting.

Shadow AI on Trial: The Phantom Threat to Compliance

Every law firm I meet can explain its information security policy in minutes. Far fewer can tell me which AI tools their staff actually used last week, and what data those tools touched. That gap is where Shadow AI sits, such as unsanctioned, unmonitored use of generative AI slips in. It promises speed, but it quietly creates exposure: confidentiality breaches, weak auditability, and a risk to governance when the regulator (or a client’s GC) asks hard questions.

AI Chief of Staff for Engineering Leaders

Meet Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff, your new strategic partner for engineering leadership. This isn’t just another dashboard. It’s an intelligent advisor that connects your engineering data, scorecards, and DORA metrics to give you real-time, actionable insights. What you'll learn in this video: Cortex’s AI Chief of Staff brings clarity and confidence to decision-making, helping leaders transform meetings into strategic, data-driven conversations that drive continuous improvement.

How Cortex brings visibility, governance, and self-service to Kubernetes operations

Platform teams handle cluster provisioning manually because it requires oversight. A product team needs a cluster, so they submit a request. Someone reviews the configuration, provisions it through the cloud provider, waits for it to spin up, and sends back access details. Two days later, the cluster is ready. The delay is intentional. Without review, teams provision oversized clusters that blow budgets, misconfigure networking, or deploy in the wrong regions.

The hidden costs of "free" cloud credits: A wake-up call for businesses

To read the full findings from this research, visit our whitepaper "Decoding Cloud Credits" by clicking here. The allure of "free" cloud credits can be tempting, but beneath the surface lies a complex web of risks and consequences that can ultimately lock businesses into costly and restrictive cloud ecosystems. Our latest whitepaper, "Decoding Cloud Credits", explores the true costs of these promotional offers and the implications for businesses.

Integration & Data Ingestion: Strengthening AIOps Observability

Large enterprises face the challenge of managing high-volume, very diverse data streams that span both legacy and modern, digital systems and applications. To gain timely, accurate insight across this kind of complexity, IT teams need observability platforms that can do more than just monitor - they must also unify, contextualize and enrich data so teams can act effectively to protect the availability of the services their customers rely on.

Disaster Recovery: Everything You Need to Know

With increasing cyberattacks and cloud outages, maintaining system resilience is critical. A robust Disaster Recovery (DR) strategy enables teams to prepare for unexpected events. It makes sure they can recover critical systems and data with minimal disruption. This blog will cover what disaster recovery is, why it matters, and the key components of an effective Disaster Recovery Plan. We’ll also walk through the steps for creating your own strategy.

How Git Worktrees Fix Context Switching in Your Workflow

Git worktrees let developers work on multiple branches simultaneously without stashing or losing context. Learn how to use Git worktrees to handle parallel development, urgent hotfixes, and code reviews without the single-threaded pain of constant branch switching. In this tutorial, GitKraken Senior Product Director Justin Roberts shows you how to set up Git worktrees using both the command line and GitKraken Desktop. You'll see real-world examples including handling critical bugs, reviewing pull requests without disrupting your current work, and managing multiple feature branches at once.

Validate CDC data in your CI/CD pipeline using CircleCI

Change Data Capture (CDC) is a technique used to identify and capture changes, such as inserts, updates, and deletes, in a source database so they can be replicated to another system in real-time. This approach is crucial in modern data pipelines, especially for powering data lakes, analytics platforms, and event-driven applications that depend on up-to-date information. Setting up a CDC pipeline is only the first step.

OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

In a microservices architecture, a single user request can pass through multiple services before completing. When performance drops or an error occurs, tracing that journey is the only way to locate the source. Distributed tracing provides that visibility. At its core are OpenTelemetry Spans — units of work that capture what each service does during a request.