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Visualizing Logs Alongside Metrics: A Practical Use Case

Aug 7, 2025 By Benjamin Pitts In MetricFire
Security threats aren’t always loud and don’t always crash systems or trigger alarms. Sometimes they creep in quietly as a steady stream of unauthorized login attempts, slow brute-force probes, or unknown IPs scanning your server for vulnerabilities. These behaviors often show up in logs before they surface in metrics but if you're only watching logs or only tracking metrics, you're missing part of the story.
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cloudzero

How To Run Monthly Cloud Cost Meetings For AI Teams

Aug 7, 2025 By Greg Barrette In CloudZero
If you’ve ever stared at your cloud bill and thought, “How on earth did this get so crazy?” — you’re not alone. Especially when AI workloads come into play, those GPU costs can feel like a runaway train. The good news? It doesn’t have to be that way. The magic happens when you’ve got someone from every team that cares about smart growth (FinOps, AI/ML, product, engineering, whatever) all in one room, looking at the same set of numbers.
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civo

Cloud Services Investigation: What the CMA's findings mean for the cloud industry

Aug 7, 2025 By Civo Team In Civo
In 2022, the Office of Communications (Ofcom) conducted a market study into the UK cloud industry to investigate whether the UK’s cloud market was working well, and if any regulatory intervention was needed¹. Ofcom concluded that the market was dominated by AWS and Microsoft, and that competition was limited, and referred matter to the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for further investigation².
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redgate

Flyway and Optimized Partition Management for Oracle Databases

Aug 7, 2025 By Kellyn Gorman In Redgate
I’m pleased to announce that Flyway continues to improve its support for Oracle databases with every release, focusing on performance, reliability, and developer efficiency. The most recent updates to Flyway Desktop and Flyway CLI specifically target a long-standing challenge for Oracle users: unnecessary table rebuilds when migrating to partitions or when managing partitions.
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pulsant

Unlocking Growth for Northern FinTechs

Aug 7, 2025 By Jay Hibbin, Head of Sales In Pulsant
FinTech is more than just a fast-growing industry; it can drive economic prosperity and improve quality of life, not just in the traditional financial hub of London, but across the whole of the UK. The sector’s success, especially outside the capital, is critical for regional growth and a more balanced national economy.
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bunnyshell

Best Practices for End-to-End Testing in 2025

Aug 6, 2025 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell
End-to-end (E2E) testing is a critical practice in today’s software development, ensuring that entire applications work seamlessly from the user’s perspective. With the growing complexity of web applications – from large monoliths to distributed microservices – thorough E2E testing has become essential for quality assurance.
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last9

Log Format Standards: JSON, XML, and Key-Value Explained

Aug 6, 2025 By Faiz Shaikh In Last9
Your log format defines how your application records events. The structure you choose shapes how logs get parsed, indexed, and queried. It affects how quickly you can debug issues, build alerts, or control storage usage. In this guide, we'll take a look at the log formats developers typically use, the essential fields to include, and what trade-offs to consider before locking down a format for your system.
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Avoid the Chaos Engineering bottleneck

Aug 6, 2025 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Chaos Engineering is great, but by itself it can create bottlenecks that limit your reliability journey. FULL TRANSCRIPT: One of the things we've learned while building Gremlin and being the first Chaos Engineering tool to market is with all the greatness that comes with this approach, we've learned some of the downfalls, some of the drawbacks. And one of those is how you scale this practice.
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IP Optical Middle Mile Network Architectures for Rural America

Aug 6, 2025 By Ribbon In Ribbon
In addressing the burgeoning demand for broadband connectivity in rural America, a robust and innovative IP Optical Network Architecture is essential. The architecture must incorporate a best-in-class multi-layer design optimized for middle-mile functionality, integrating both voice and security dimensions. A pivotal requirement is to decouple the last mile from the middle mile, ensuring that the last-mile solutions can remain agnostic to various technologies while still benefiting from a unified middle-mile infrastructure.
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