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Do You Know How Many IPs Your CIDR Block Really Has? Understanding Network Capacity and Allocation
Many people use CIDR blocks every day without knowing exactly how many IP addresses they actually have. A CIDR block like /24 gives exactly 256 possible IP addresses, while a /29 block gives 8, and each size gives a different number you can count on for planning. Not understanding this can leave networks overcrowded or wasteful, leading to problems later.
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Getting to the Zero Engineers Code Development Moment
The software world is inching rapidly toward an era once thought impossible: a time when no engineers are needed to write code. Not because software will disappear, but because the tools writing the code will be intelligent, autonomous, and capable of reasoning, generating, and deploying entirely on their own. We're not there yet-but we're getting very close.
What Is Azure SQL?
Modern cloud solutions mean much more than just data storage. Cloud technologies cover virtual services, including analytics, databases, networking, servers, and storage via the internet. Such a giant as Microsoft is among the most prominent cloud providers with its Azure platform. “Platform as a Service,” or PaaS, is a popular solution for database specialists. It is a powerful database engine that allows you to perform most database management routines.
Kubernetes Cost Optimization Done Right
Kubernetes was never just about cost savings. It was built to be a robust, scalable, and efficient platform for orchestrating containerized applications. And it was meant to abstract infrastructure away so developers could move quickly and go about their business of developing. But as Kubernetes adoption scaled, so did cloud bills. FinOps tools emerged to rein in spending, but most only scratch the surface.
NAT Management Made Easy: See Every Translation
Network Address Translation (NAT) is foundational in today’s enterprise and cloud networks, yet NAT documentation often remains an afterthought, managed in spreadsheets or skipped entirely. This creates unnecessary complexity, security blind spots, and wasted IP resources. At LightMesh, we believe IP address management (IPAM) should include intuitive tools to track NAT configurations just as easily as subnets and IP assignments.
Spike vs. PagerDuty: Which On-Call Management Tool Is Better in 2025
If you’re stuck between choosing Spike vs. PagerDuty for your on-call management, you’re at the right place. I wrote this blog post to end your confusion and help you make a better choice. I’ve presented a comparative analysis for these two tools across 4 key criteria (keep reading to find what they are). For each criterion, there’s either a winner or a tie. When it’s a tie, each tool gets one point. If there’s a winner, that tool gets two points.
Prometheus Gauges vs Counters: What to Use and When
Choosing the wrong metric type in Prometheus can lead to inaccurate dashboards, false positives in alerting, and missed indicators of system failure. Gauge metrics are intended for tracking values that can go up and down, such as memory usage, queue depth, or the number of active connections. Unlike counters, which only increment (or reset on restart), gauges reflect the current state of a resource at scrape time.
The $465M Bug: What Every Dev Needs to Know About Code Health
Is your codebase quietly killing developer productivity? In this talk from GitKon, Jai Predeesh (co-founder of DeepSource) breaks down why code health is more than a buzzword... it’s a critical lever for preventing failures, improving dev morale, and scaling without firefighting. From Knight Capital’s $465M bug to subtle security flaws in AI-generated code, this session shows how automated static analysis can catch the issues that escape human eyes and PR reviews.
Why Code Health Matters for Productivity
Half your dev time = not building, but debugging. That’s $300B in lost global productivity every year. Here’s why code health isn’t optional anymore.