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Sovereign cloud for financial services: Meeting FCA and PRA requirements with UK infrastructure

Financial services in the UK operates under one of the most demanding regulatory frameworks in the world. The FCA and PRA between them set expectations for operational resilience, outsourcing, data governance, and concentration risk that shape every infrastructure decision a regulated firm makes. Cloud adoption in the sector has happened, but it's happened under regulatory scrutiny that's grown steadily more pointed over the last several years.

Monitor DigitalOcean in Grafana with MetricFire

Monitoring your DigitalOcean infrastructure just got easier. MetricFire now integrates natively with DigitalOcean, so you can connect your account and start streaming metrics from Droplets, Load Balancers, Managed Databases, and more directly into Grafana. No agents. No setup overhead. No dashboard stitching. Get full visibility into your DigitalOcean infrastructure from one dashboard, live in minutes.

More Resilience, Less Overhead: How to Modernize Disaster Recovery Testing

• Disaster recovery planning is essential for ensuring digital services remain online in the face of catastrophic failures or outages. When a major digital infrastructure outage occurs, systems need to be set up to automatically respond and restore functionality as quickly as possible. But no matter how in-depth your disaster recovery plan is, it’s still only theoretical until it’s thoroughly tested under realistic failure conditions, which is why testing is often mandated by leadership and regulators.

Rundeck/RBA 6.0: Modernizing the foundation your automation runs on

This blog post is part of PagerDuty’s ongoing series on how we’re helping customers navigate their journey towards autonomous operations. Read on to learn about how PagerDuty’s Rundeck/RBA 6.0 recently announced in GA builds towards this vision.

Automating SonicWall Certificate Deployment with the SonicOS API

How do we keep our Sonicwall certificates up to date as certificate lifetimes get shorter? We’re already at 200 day certs with 100 then 47 day certificates coming soon. A certificate you used to touch once every year now needs replacing up to twelve times a year. Doing this by hand is out of the question, no one has the time. Even if they did, the frequent updates is just asking for mistakes. Luckily, this can be automated using the SonicOS API.

The Three Pillars Were Built for Humans

It was 2am and I was paying for the privilege. Something was on fire in production, and I’d done the modern thing: I pointed an AI agent at it. It ingested the dashboards. It read the logs. It walked the traces. Then it handed me back a beautifully formatted paragraph that said, in effect, “latency is elevated on the checkout path.” I knew that. The page told me that.

From a $28,000 AI Bill to $0.60 Per Ticket

Engineering teams are burning through AI budgets with nothing to show for it — $100M across 10,000 engineers and no cost per run, no cost per outcome, just a number that keeps climbing. When it runs dry, your infrastructure upgrade gets cut. Harness ties every AI token to the outcome it created: cost per run, cost per resolved ticket, and anomaly detection before the invoice hits. One customer went from a $28,000 black box bill to $0.60 per ticket.