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Validating chaos experiments with GCP Cloud Monitoring probes

GCP Cloud Monitoring probe let you transform your existing GCP metrics into automated pass/fail validation for chaos experiments, eliminating subjective observation in favor of objective measurement. With flexible authentication options (workload identity or service account keys) and PromQL query support, you can validate infrastructure performance against defined thresholds during controlled failure scenarios.

The Right Way to Deliver Infrastructure: Every Deploy Comes with Guardrails

In fast-moving organizations, developers are expected to ship quickly. Infrastructure shouldn’t be a blocker, but it can’t become a liability either. One unchecked terraform apply, a missing tag, or a misconfigured instance can turn into a surprise bill, a failed audit, or even a production outage. The most reliable way to manage infrastructure at speed is to make governance part of the delivery process.

The sovereignty of the builder: Lessons from Civo Navigate London 2025

Digital sovereignty isn’t won in policy papers. It’s earned in production. That was the challenge issued by Civo CEO Mark Boost and Board Director Kelsey Hightower at Civo Navigate London 2025. They argued that the cloud's real failure lies not with the providers, but with the customers who refused to change. Catch up on the full fireside chat below The power shift is underway, moving from large vendors back to the practitioner.

dotConnect for QuickBooks Online | Secure C# ADO.NET connection with ORM support

Connect your C# .NET applications directly to QuickBooks Online with dotConnect for QuickBooks — a robust, high-performance data provider designed for modern financial integration. Whether you’re building financial dashboards, automating reports, or syncing accounting data, dotConnect gives you seamless, secure access to QuickBooks Online with full Visual Studio integration and rich ORM capabilities.

Webinar Recap: 3 Cost Allocation Mistakes FinOps Teams Can Avoid

In a webinar hosted by CloudZero on Oct. 30, 2025, Larry Advey, Director of Cloud Platform and FinOps and a respected voice in the FinOps community, joined Umesh Rao to deliver a practical session on cloud cost allocation. The session, titled Three Allocation Mistakes Most FinOps Teams Make, unpacked hard-earned lessons and offered a guided tour of CloudZero’s new Dimension Studio.

AWS Outage Shows Why UK Businesses Can't Afford Single-Cloud Dependency

The impact of the AWS outage has reminded many businesses of the risk for businesses that rely heavily on centralised cloud infrastructure, especially when so many essential services are concentrated in a single region. But at the wider, industry level, this is also a warning around the widespread lack of contingency planning for cloud failures. Reactive response must give way to strategically planned disaster recovery protocols that engenders a resilient cloud market.

Manage your Pipelines usage with the new billing panel

Until recently, the Pipelines Billing Panel has only displayed the total pipeline minutes used across your workspace. You didn’t have visibility into how usage was distributed across your repositories. We’ve now enhanced the billing panel to show you build minute usage by repository for the current and previous billing periods so you can identify and manage high-usage repositories.