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Azure Cost Optimization: Best Practices for Cloud Solution Providers

In this episode, we explore practical Azure cost management strategies tailored for Cloud Solution Providers (CSPs). The conversation dives into cost visibility, optimization techniques, and billing transparency, helping CSPs improve margins and deliver more value to their customers. Featuring experts from West Coast, a leading CSP, including James Reed (Azure Sales Manager) and Mitchell G. (Azure Sales Specialist), along with Mike Stevenson, the discussion highlights real-world insights from the partner ecosystem.

CEO Diaries: Not All AI Talent Is Alike

If Meta’s (now halted) nine-figure AI talent poaching scheme was any indication, the AI talent market is pretty frothy. The number of AI-related job postings has roughly tripled since 2019, and the average salary has more than doubled (Bain). The race is on for companies to find the fastest, most sustainable routes to AI-driven business value; all companies, but especially software companies, are hotly pursuing racers. But despite what Zuckerberg & Co.

Open Source Cloud Orchestration Tools Compared

Before 2011, cloud infrastructure was still new. AWS had launched EC2 and S3 in 2006. But to deploy applications, engineers had to manually spin up servers, configure storage, and set up networking — all by hand or with custom scripts. There were early configuration management tools, such as Chef and Puppet, but those didn’t offer full cloud orchestration. Then in 2011, AWS launched AWS CloudFormation as the first major orchestration tool.

Building a Pregnancy App You Can Actually Trust!

We never talk about pregnancy in the workplace. Maybe it's time to change that. Tech is still male-dominated, which creates a ripple effect: poor maternity policies, overworked expecting developers, and privacy-invasive apps that fail the people who need them most. But what happens when a developer decides to solve this problem themselves? Rizel built a pregnancy app she could actually trust. Not because existing solutions didn't exist, but because they weren't built with real privacy, real needs, and real developer insight in mind.

RancherLive: Know before you Go - KubeCon Atlanta Edition

Join us for a special Know Before You Go online session all about getting ready for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon in Atlanta! Hosted by Orlin Vasilev, this live event will feature special guest Nick Eberts — a proud Atlantan, musician, father, and Project Manager at Google. Nick will share insider tips on making the most of your KubeCon experience — from navigating the conference to exploring the best of Atlanta’s music, food, and culture. Whether it’s your first time at KubeCon or your first visit to the city, this session will help you feel right at home.

Monitoring Chaos Experiments with New Relic Probe in Harness

New Relic probes in Harness Chaos Engineering let you automatically validate system performance against defined SLOs during chaos experiments, transforming subjective testing into objective, metrics-driven resilience validation. By querying New Relic metrics in real-time and comparing results against your success criteria, you can programmatically verify that your systems maintain acceptable performance levels even under failure conditions.

What is Content Addressable Storage?

Imagine a world where every change in your systems from a config tweak to a deployment carries its own cryptographic proof. No forms. No meetings. Just mathematical truth. In this video, Mike Long (CEO & Co-Founder, Kosli) explains how cryptographic fingerprints like SHA-256 are used to create unique identities for files, code, and configurations — and how Kosli uses this approach to continuously track changes across servers, Kubernetes clusters, and cloud environments.

Activating free trial in dbForge add-ins for SSMS

In this video, you’ll learn how to activate a dbForge add-in for Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio. We’ll use dbForge SQL Complete as an example, but the activation steps apply to all dbForge add-ins. We’ll show where to find your activation key, how to activate online or offline, and even via the command line. Activation is quick, secure, and free — so you can start your trial right away!