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How are hyperscalers misleading the cloud industry?

In 2024, Mark Boost, CEO at Civo, introduced the concept of ‘cloud parity’, a cloud computing approach that ensures a consistent, identical experience, feature set, and operational model across public, private, hybrid, and edge environments. “Cloud parity gives teams the freedom the cloud was supposed to deliver in the first place. It gives enterprises the sovereignty they need. It gives public sector bodies the clarity they require.

PagerDuty Appoints John DiLullo as Chief Executive Officer

Jennifer Tejada Transitions to Executive Chair of Board of Directors After Serving as CEO Since 2016. John DiLullo Brings Deep Enterprise, Product and Go-to-Market Leadership Experience to Lead Next Phase of Growth. Company Reaffirms First Quarter and Full Fiscal Year 2027 Guidance.
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The SDLC: phases, popular models, benefits & more

The Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) describes the process we follow to deliver software to customers. It captures each step of creating software, from ideation to delivery and eventually to maintenance. In this post, we've broken down everything you need to understand the SDLC.
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Replay Real Customer API Sessions as Datadog Synthetics Tests

A customer pings support: "I tried to check out twice this morning and got a 500 each time, but it works fine for everyone else." The session ID is in the email. You have full request/response capture in your environment, you have Datadog Synthetics already running browser checks against the same flow, and you still spend the next two hours grepping logs because none of those tools let you say "show me just this user's requests, in order, and re-run them."

The Enterprise Buyer's Guide to Service Desk Automation Platforms

Here’s a story that plays out constantly in enterprise IT, and few people talk about afterward. A team runs an evaluation with multiple vendors using a structured scoring process. Then, they make their choice, but six months into deployment, the platform that excelled in every demo is now struggling with the actual environment. The IT leader who signed off is in a room with their CIO, trying to explain why the numbers fail to match the projections.

SLI, SLO, SLA: What They Mean for Load Testing

Most engineers can recite these three terms. Fewer know how they actually connect during a load test. If your team is running performance tests without mapping results to SLOs, you're collecting data without a pass/fail signal. This short gives you the mental model to turn load test output into something your SLA can actually depend on.

Beyond code execution: the strategic case for stateful AI sandboxes

While ephemeral sandboxes are effective for isolated code execution, enterprise AI agents require a more robust context to be reliable. Upsun provides production-like preview environments, complete with byte-level clones of apps and services, offering a higher standard of validation for agentic workflows.