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AI coding tools were supposed to mean developers work less. On a recent webinar recorded with LeadDev, senior engineering manager Vernon put words to something a lot of teams are quietly noticing instead: “It’s concerning because it’s the opposite of what was promised. We were supposed to be working less.”

Every time you join a video meeting, move data between cloud environments or use an AI-powered application, your traffic travels across a complex network of interconnected infrastructure. At the heart of this global ecosystem sits the internet backbone – and the highest-performing networks within it are known as Tier 1 IP backbones.

Most build-versus-buy debates assume you're choosing once, at the start, and living with it. Agentic engineering doesn't work that way. The decision shows up at every layer of the stack, and the teams getting it right aren't the ones who picked "build" or "buy" as a philosophy. They're the ones who know which layer is which.

Compare the top cloud cost optimization and FinOps tools - Vantage, nOps, CloudZero, CloudAware, PointFive, and Qovery - across spend visibility, Kubernetes rightsizing, and migration cost control. Melanie leads content at Qovery. She covers platform engineering trends, Kubernetes operations, FinOps, and the tools that help engineering teams ship faster.

A chart shows you that CPU jumped at 15:57. It doesn’t show you that a deploy went out at 15:56. Chart annotations let you pin a note to the exact moment on a chart, and it stays there for everyone in your Space, permanently, the next time anyone looks at that chart.

To deploy an application we haven't seen before, we need two things out of its repository. One is a Dockerfile that builds it. The other is a service definition saying what runs, which ports it listens on, which databases it needs, and what environment variables it expects. Customers arrive with a git URL, and we figure out the rest. We even do the tricky task of generating a Dockerfile if it doesn't already exist in the codebase. We've built a solution for this twice already.