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cloudzero

The AI-nigma: FinOps Is Maturing - So Why Is Cloud Efficiency Falling?

Feb 12, 2026 By Larry Advey In CloudZero
Q: What do you call it when FinOps maturity surges but cloud efficiency plummets? A: An AI-nigma. I don’t claim to be a comedian. But I do claim to be Fred FinOps, so the paradoxical findings from CloudZero’s new report titled FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, created in partnership with B2B SaaS benchmarking firm Benchmarkit, had me scratching my head. The good news: These numbers tell a story of cloud cost maturity and control. But then there’s the bad news.
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Sustainable AI Investment: A Systems Thinking Approach

Feb 12, 2026 By Adam Tankanow In CloudZero
According to our new report, FinOps in the AI Era: A Critical Recalibration, 40% of companies now spend $10M or more annually on AI. Most can’t tell you if it’s working. That’s not a budgeting problem. It’s a systems problem. And Donella Meadows wrote the playbook for understanding it.
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Cloud 66

The PaaS Graveyard: Why Platforms Keep Dying and Developers Keep Migrating

Feb 12, 2026 By Kash Sajadi In Cloud 66
I've been in this industry since before the word "PaaS" existed. I founded Cloud 66 in 2012 — the same year Heroku was peaking, dotCloud was pivoting to become Docker, and the idea of "just git push and forget about servers" felt like the future. It was the future. Partly. The deployment experience was revolutionary. The business model wasn't. Last week, Heroku announced its transition to "sustaining mode" — no new features, no new enterprise contracts.
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Cloud 66

Heroku Moves to Sustaining Mode: What It Means and What You Can Do About It

Feb 12, 2026 By Kash Sajadi In Cloud 66
Last week, Heroku announced it is transitioning to a "sustaining engineering model." In plain English: no new features, no new enterprise contracts for new customers, and Salesforce is redirecting its investment elsewhere. The platform will be maintained for security and stability, but that's it. If you've been in this industry long enough, you know what "sustaining mode" means.
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cortex

How frictionless development created a trillion dollar mistake

Feb 12, 2026 By Anish Dhar In Cortex
We've all heard from an engineering leader about the exact moment they realized their architecture had gotten too complex. It usually happens when they look at a service map and realize it looks like a box of tangled Christmas lights. This cognitive overload is exactly what Steve Evans, the former SVP of engineering at Chegg, reflected on in a recent post on LinkedIn. He argued that microservices were a trillion dollar mistake because we often over-build for future problems that never actually arrive.
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upsun

Migration blueprint for moving your application without rewriting

Feb 12, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
The decision to migrate a production application is rarely about the destination. It is about the friction of the journey. For most engineering leaders, the word "migration" is a synonym for "refactor." The industry has conditioned us to assume that moving to a modern cloud platform requires throwing away years of stable configuration, learning a new proprietary DSL, and rewriting core application logic to fit a specific container or serverless model.
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Why Upsun is the multi-cloud PaaS technical leaders are choosing in 2026

Feb 12, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
In a recent technical evaluation by Journal du Net (JDN), Upsun (formerly Platform.sh) was recognized for its ability to "pull ahead" (tire son épingle du jeu) in a fiercely competitive market dominated by cloud giants and specialized pure players. While hyperscalers offer raw power, Upsun’s strategic fusion of enterprise reliability and AI-ready agility has redefined expectations for modern PaaS.
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speedscale

Kubernetes Load Testing Made Easy with Speedscale

Feb 11, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
Everybody knows working with Kubernetes is really hard. It's highly complicated. You have to know how to work with YAMLs, there's lots of stuff to deal with. The classic developer experience with YAML. But what if you could get complete visibility into your Kubernetes workloads and run realistic load tests without touching a single YAML file or running kubectl commands? In this walkthrough, I'll show you how Speedscale makes Kubernetes observability and performance testing as simple as point-and-click.
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Silent Failures: Why AI Code Breaks in Production

Feb 11, 2026 By Ken Ahrens In Speedscale
You ship a small “safe” change on Friday. The diff is tiny, the tests are green, and the AI assistant was confident. An hour after deploy, your on-call channel lights up. A downstream service is rejecting responses that look fine in code review. Now you’re rolling back and rewriting a fix that should have been obvious if you had real traffic in the loop. This isn’t a hypothetical.
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Resolve's Agents of IT podcast - Ep. 12 - Bob Strong, AVP of Service Operations at Assurant

Feb 11, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
What does it really take to move from reactive IT firefighting to intelligent, AI-driven operations? In this episode of Agents of IT, Resolve CCO Sean Heuer and COO Ari Stowe sit down with Bob Armstrong, AVP of Service Operations at Assurant, to unpack what happens when a 25-year service operations leader embraces AI, automation, and agentic workflows.
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