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Best Cheap Black Friday VPS Deals - November 2025: A Cost-Based Analysis

It is November 2025 and Black Friday is here, and the VPS hosting world is getting ready for its biggest sale event of the year. Numerous VPS deals with huge discount percentages will appear across every website, but what should be considered is that the real savings aren't always what they look like at first glance. This guide focuses on total cost and provides a few different options that you can consider.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025: Recap

Hi everyone, my name is Bailey Ahrens, and I’m a marketing intern at Speedscale! I just returned a few days ago from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. While it was only my second trade show, it felt like a huge step forward in my confidence, skills, and future direction. My first conference (API World) was all about stepping outside my comfort zone. KubeCon was where I started leaning into that confidence and finding my place in the tech community.

Harness Database DevOps Adds Flyway Support

Harness Database DevOps has added Flyway support alongside Liquibase, offering teams a choice between structured changelogs and SQL-first migration scripts. This multi-engine approach ensures developers can use their preferred tool while benefiting from centralized governance, automated safety features, and a unified pipeline for all database changes. The goal is to make database delivery safer, more automated, and flexible across the enterprise.

Bitbucket Pipelines Advanced Configuration Options | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Unlock the full potential of your Bitbucket Pipelines! In this video, I introduce four advanced configuration options you can add to your bitbucket-pipelines.yml file to boost performance and cut costs: Try adding a larger Size parameter to your slowest steps, or set up retry conditions for flaky tests to get started.

Boost Developer Experience with LLMs!

Your laptop is powerful enough to run your own LLM. Here's why that matters While centralized AI tools help teams, they miss something critical: your personal knowledge. Meeting notes, tips, tricks, and context only you have. Kyle Fransham shows how running a local LLM changes the game. Index your own "master document of knowledge" and query it right in your dev environment. No cloud needed. The tools are accessible. The setup is simple. And the impact? Game-changing for how you work.

A New, Simpler Microsoft Teams Integration For Redgate Monitor

Microsoft is retiring Office 365 connectors, but there is now a new and easier way to send Redgate Monitor alert notifications to Teams, ready-formatted. Microsoft is retiring Microsoft 365 (Office 365) connectors on 31 March 2026. After that date, any Redgate Monitor alert notifications configured through the old connector method will stop appearing in Teams. From Redgate Monitor 14.1.0, there’s now a new and much simpler way to do it.

Tame multi-cluster chaos. A Platform Engineer's guide to distributed Kubewarden Policies with Fleet

For platform engineers managing multiple Kubernetes clusters, maintaining policy consistency is a constant struggle. Manually applying security rules across a growing fleet of clusters is inefficient and error-prone. This approach creates significant risks: As your environment scales, this operational burden becomes unsustainable. Each out-of-sync policy represents a potential security gap, increasing the cluster’s attack surface.

Strengthening Open Source Facter: Ensuring Compatibility and Essential Maintenance

Over the course of 2025, the Puppet Core team has been committed to developing secure, hardened Puppet code that our customers can rely on. As part of that shift, many Puppet platform components, including Facter, were brought under the Puppet Core model and were moved into private repositories.