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CloudZero Launches Claude Code Plugin To Bring Cost Intelligence Into Engineering Workflows

Today we’re announcing the CloudZero Claude Code Plugin, a new capability that puts CloudZero’s full cost intelligence model directly inside Claude Code, where engineers and technical FinOps practitioners already work. The plugin connects a Model Context Protocol (MCP) server and nine pre-packaged investigation skills to CloudZero’s cost data, covering cloud and AI spend across AWS, GCP, Azure, Snowflake, MongoDB, OpenAI, Anthropic, and more.

GitKraken Desktop 11.10 Release: Pin Branch, Sparse Checkout, Word Wrap and MORE!

GitKraken Desktop 11.10 is live! This release focuses on control over the commit graph, rebases, and more. The kind that makes working in complex repositories feel intentional instead of chaotic. Here’s what’s new: These updates bring long requested structural improvements directly into the GitKraken Desktop UI. If you care about clean history, readable diffs, and managing serious repos without jumping to the CLI, this release is for you.

Data Sovereignty: What Infrastructure Leaders Must Know

Data sovereignty refers to the principle that data is subject to the laws and governance of the country in which it is stored or processed. Put simply: where your data lives determines who has jurisdiction over it. This isn’t a new concept, but the urgency around it has intensified significantly. The geopolitical climate has pushed governments to treat data infrastructure as a strategic national asset. The EU has GDPR with strict cross-border transfer restrictions.

What does investigation look like when data lives in multiple tools?

War rooms don’t fix fragmentation. They expose it. Incident hits. App checks traces. Infra checks hosts. Cloud checks dashboards. Network checks packets. Everyone sees their layer. No one sees the system. So we guess. Rollback. Add capacity. Freeze change. The noise stops. The constraint doesn’t. Modern failures don’t live in tools. They live in dependencies. If your platform can’t follow a transaction across hybrid and AI infrastructure — to the exact constraint — you don’t have observability.

Agent vs. Agentless: What is better for Infrastructure Management?

The “agent vs agentless” debate usually comes up when teams are trying to choose an infrastructure automation approach that will not compromise security, compliance, or impact day-to-day operations. You need to manage a hybrid estate, avoid creating more work for already stretched teams, and ideally do it without stitching together multiple tools. That pressure often turns the conversation into a binary choice: which approach is better?

Beyond the horizon: How Ana Cidre turned a non-linear path into leadership

Welcome to Beyond the horizon, a monthly series celebrating the people who shape Upsun’s culture, innovation, and heart. In this month’s edition, we’re featuring Ana Cidre, Director of Developer Advocacy at Upsun and one of the key voices shaping how developers experience our platform today and in the future.

Solving the Cartesian Count Problem: Efficient Multi-Table Aggregation in Complex Databases

Short Summary: Counting related records across multiple dependent tables can produce wrong totals or slow queries when standard joins are used. This article explains a more reliable way to do this by counting each table separately, applying date filters, and checking that the query still runs well on large datasets. Tools such as dbForge Edge can also help if needed.

Mastering Cross-Database Date Manipulation: Subtracting Days in MySQL and H2

Short Summary: Different databases use different SQL syntax for simple tasks like subtracting days from a date. In this post, we show how these differences appear across databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and H2. We also explain how dbForge Edge helps teams work with them in one place while keeping application logic consistent.

What Is Lift And Shift? Is It Right For You?

Cloud migration strategies range from quick rehosting to complete application refactoring. Lift and shift migration (also called rehosting) moves applications from on-premises to the cloud with minimal changes, promising speed and lower initial costs compared to other strategies. But does lift and shift actually deliver long-term savings? This guide examines when lift and shift makes sense, when it creates hidden costs, and what alternatives exist.