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Marginal Cost Explained: The KPI Every SaaS CFO Cares About (But You Rarely Track)

Ask a SaaS team how they measure cloud efficiency, and you’ll hear familiar things. Total cloud spend. Average cost per customer. Maybe a breakdown of spend by service. All useful, but rather wobbly. Now ask, “What does it cost you to serve one more customer?” That’s when the room goes quiet. And that’s often where cloud economics gets really wobbly. Because that number, your marginal cost, is what actually determines your margins. Not your total cloud bill.

OTel Updates: Unroll Processor Now in Collector Contrib

Some log sources bundle multiple events into a single record before shipping them. This is common with VPC flow logs, CloudWatch exports, and certain Windows endpoint collectors. While this batching approach is efficient for transport, it creates challenges when you need to filter, search, or correlate individual events. When a log record contains an array of 47 events, your analytics tool sees one entry instead of 47 distinct records.

From AI to quick-deploy applications: Mark Shuttleworth and Randy Holloway discuss technology trends

‎‎ Subscribe. Trusted open source for everyone. Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder and CEO, sits down with Randy Holloway, Global GTM Leader at Microsoft, to discuss the current technology landscape. They explore AI’s impact on organizations and how open source in the public cloud is helping teams innovate.

Top 10 DevOps Consulting Companies in 2026

If you're leading a technology or product in 2026, you're probably under pressure from all sides. Your business needs faster releases, fewer outages, and tighter security. At the same time, your teams are juggling legacy systems, growing cloud bills, and a constant stream of change requests. You know DevOps can help, but turning "we should do DevOps" into a reliable, repeatable delivery engine is harder than it sounds.

Simplify container management with Bitbucket Packages (now GA)

We’re excited to announce the general availability (GA) of Bitbucket Packages, a native container registry built into Bitbucket Cloud. With this launch, you can now manage your source code, CI/CD pipelines, and now, container images all within Bitbucket. This means less context switching, simplified permission management, and a more cost-effective way for your team to manage container artifacts.

CI/CD for Cloudflare Pages using CircleCI and Wrangler

When building static websites with tools like Next.js, getting your content live should be just as seamless as writing it. But in practice, deployment can quickly become a manual chore, especially when testing, caching, and previews are involved. That’s why this guide shows you how to set up a CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI, Cloudflare Pages, and Wrangler. You will use the pipeline to deploy a static Next.js site only when your tests pass.

Database DevOps vs. Database Migration Systems and Why You Need Both

Database DevOps and migration systems solve different parts of the same workflow - one enables collaboration, governance, and automation while the other delivers structured, versioned schema execution. Using both eliminates release friction by aligning developers, DBAs, and CI/CD pipelines with full auditability and rollback safety. Harness converges these capabilities to make database changes seamless, compliant, and production-ready by design. Every developer knows this story.

Enabling the Puppet Infra Assistant MCP Server for Code Assist

Unlock the full potential of your Puppet infrastructure with this quick guide on enabling the Puppet Infra Assistant MCP Server for Code Assist. In just 2 minutes, learn how to streamline your coding process and enhance your development workflow. Whether you're a seasoned developer or just starting with Puppet, this video provides easy to follow steps to get you up and running. TIMESTAMPS Subscribe at ⁨‪@PerforcePuppet‬ Website: puppet.com LinkedIn: /perforce-puppet.