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OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Dec 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.

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SaaS Architecture Fundamentals: Design Principles, Best Practices, And Examples

Dec 12, 2025 By CloudZero In CloudZero

As an engineer, engineering leader, or CTO, your architectural choices shape how fast your team builds products and how efficiently you manage technology costs. Your architecture determines how much control you have over data, infrastructure, and customization. The Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) model is one of the most common ways to deliver software reliably to users anywhere.

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How to Handle Cloud Monitoring Overload?

Dec 12, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

Reduce alert noise by 70% through intelligent aggregation, clear ownership boundaries, and filtering metrics that don't map to user-facing issues. Monitoring starts with a straightforward goal: understand your system's health and identify issues before users notice them. You set up metrics, create dashboards, and configure some alerts. At first, it works well. Over time, your stack gets bigger and more complicated. New services get added.

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New Feature Friday: Explore Cortex's New Solutions & Guides

Dec 12, 2025 By Cortex | Internal Developer Portal In Cortex

This week on New Feature Friday, Senior Technical Writer Sally Stumbo walks you through two powerful additions to the Cortex docs: Solutions and Guides. These new sections are designed to help you move faster with clearer, end-to-end examples for real engineering use cases.

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SQL Compare & SQL Data Compare v16: Introducing SQL Server 2025 Support, Enhanced Security & More

Dec 12, 2025 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate

SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare v16 introduces SQL Server 2025 support and improved credential security. Plus, SSMS 22 integration is coming soon. We have just released a new major version of SQL Compare and SQL Data Compare – version 16. This major version has two big items and one coming soon.

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90% of Indian businesses face unexpected cloud bills

Dec 12, 2025 By Civo In Civo

Cloud promised simplicity, not surprises. 90% of Indian companies are hit by unexpected costs, proving cloud unpredictability is the new crisis. The challenge: Predictable cost AND data sovereignty.

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Why Cloud-Based Startups Dominate

Dec 12, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

If you've been following developments in the business world, you will have noticed that cloud-based startups are dominating. But why is this? Why is almost every new unicorn a business that's in the cloud that appears on people's iPhones? Why isn't it something in the physical world? That's the topic we're going to discuss in this article. We're going to explore why cloud-based startups are the way to go in 2025 and 2026 and how you can leverage them to your advantage.

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Expert Insight: Why Carrier Neutral Data Centres Give UK Businesses Greater Network Control

Dec 11, 2025 By Mike Hoy, CTO In Pulsant

The demands placed on digital infrastructure have changed. As businesses expand across regions, adopt cloud platforms, and face stricter compliance requirements, networks must evolve just as fast as the workloads they support. The rise of AI, distributed teams, and latency-sensitive applications has made agility a central requirement for performance and resilience. Without it, costs rise, migrations slow, and continuity becomes harder to guarantee.

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How to Build Microservices With ASP.NET Core and EF Core

Dec 11, 2025 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart

When a monolithic app starts to hit its limits, microservices are often the next step forward. They let you scale only what’s under pressure, keep changes local, and give teams the freedom to deploy on their own schedule. It’s no wonder the market for microservices is growing fast, from $1.93 billion in 2024 to a projected $11.36 billion by 2033. So how do you build microservices? In.NET, the process is surprisingly straightforward.

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Cutting tech debt at the source: how cloud application platforms put IT back on offense

Dec 11, 2025 By Jessica Orozco In Upsun

For most Central IT leaders, tech debt isn't a surprise. It's the silent tax on every roadmap, every quarterly plan, every conversation about why things take so long. Modern cloud application platforms (true PaaS environments) give IT leaders a path to unwind years of accumulated complexity while simultaneously accelerating innovation. You no longer have to tolerate the tax.

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