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Azure Blob Storage Pricing Breakdown: Your Guide For 2025

Microsoft Azure Blob Storage stands out as a scalable, reliable, and versatile cloud storage solution for modern businesses. The block storage platform is also popular for replicating data across multiple data centers. This redundancy safeguards your records in case of data center failures or regional disasters. These capabilities come at a cost, which impacts your bottom line. Let’s break down how much Blob Storage costs, including the key factors that influence Azure Blob Storage pricing.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0

We’re excited to introduce HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller 3.0, packed with powerful new features that bring greater control, performance, and observability to managing Kubernetes environments. This release delivers TCP custom resource definitions (CRDs) to improve mapping, structuring, and validation for TCP services within HAProxy Enterprise Kubernetes Ingress Controller.

Bringing multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps

Over the past 5 years, Canonical has been contributing to Flutter, including building out Linux support for Flutter applications, publishing libraries to help integrate into the Linux desktop and building modern applications for Ubuntu, including our software store. Last year we announced at the Ubuntu Summit that we’ve been working on bringing support for multiple windows to Flutter desktop apps.

#034 - Infrastructure Automation & the Future of Ops with Cory O'Daniel (Massdriver)

This podcast features Cory O'Daniel, CEO of Massdriver, an infrastructure automation platform. O'Daniel discusses his extensive background in software engineering and cloud operations, highlighting his expertise in Erlang and Elixir programming languages and their applications within Kubernetes. He explains Massdriver's role in simplifying infrastructure management for both developers and operations engineers by visually representing infrastructure-as-code.

Intro to proxymock, a free traffic-based service mocking tool within VS Code.

Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.

Failover cluster storage: A comprehensive guide

Availability is the most important driving factor that shapes every decision an organization makes. To ensure high availability, failover clustering is one of the most commonly used solutions in modern IT infrastructure. In this article, we'll learn what failover cluster storage, cluster shared storage, and cluster shared volumes are. Then, we will guide you on how to manage and monitor these crucial resources.

TOP 10 MySQL GUI Tools for Efficient Database Management on Windows [2025]

The ongoing debate between the users of GUI-powered tools and the devotees of command-line utilities is centered around the respective strengths of both approaches. The biggest strength of the former is, naturally, the smooth and easy experience of interaction with databases, which makes GUI tools so attractive to beginners and seasoned professionals alike. In this article, we’ll explore the most popular Windows-compatible GUI tools for MySQL.