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How Microsoft's SharePoint file archive policy works (preview): New-SPOFileArchivePolicy, last-access rules, What-If mode, exclusions, reports and limits.

MCP server monitoring guide: spans, metrics and logs to record for tool calls, why failed tools look healthy, and how to trace requests from client to server. Sejal Pandey works on content and growth at Last9, writing about observability, reliability, and SRE practices.

Workload identity replaces stored cloud keys with an identity the platform proves for each workload. The cloud exchanges that proof for short-lived, least-privilege credentials at runtime, so there is no long-lived key to leak, rotate, or copy.

Most cloud compute waste comes from paying for capacity your workloads do not use: over-provisioned requests, idle nodes, standby capacity, and per-service add-ons. The biggest savings come from changing how capacity is reserved and packed, not only from discounts or dashboards.

The best MCP servers for DevOps depends on what you want an AI assistant to do: read code and pipelines, plan infrastructure as code, call one cloud’s APIs, observe production, or deploy and operate workloads. The safest setups combine scoped permissions, a read-only mode for investigation, confirmation before destructive actions, and an audit trail of every change.

Qovery Training is now generally available to every Qovery customer. It is a sandbox copy of the Console on fake data, with 18 tracks for software engineers, DevOps, platform and security teams, a simulated terminal and AI agent, and training spaces where admins pick the lessons and follow their team's progress. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

The Qovery Console demo is open to everyone at console-demo.qovery.com. No account, no credit card, no cloud credentials: the full Console on sample data, with seven short product tours. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Personas are easy to create but often ignored. This is the first of two posts about how we developed archetypes to keep our personas fresh at Canonical. These are shared, machine-readable descriptions of our users that multiple teams and their agents can use. This post explains the system, its purpose, and its structure. The second post’ll cover how we maintain and update it. Personas should be functional tools.