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In a webinar hosted by CloudZero on Oct. 30, 2025, Larry Advey, Director of Cloud Platform and FinOps and a respected voice in the FinOps community, joined Umesh Rao to deliver a practical session on cloud cost allocation. The session, titled Three Allocation Mistakes Most FinOps Teams Make, unpacked hard-earned lessons and offered a guided tour of CloudZero’s new Dimension Studio.

Imagine you have an API service composed of multiple microservices. Traffic fluctuates — sometimes light, sometimes spiking. Without Fargate, you’d have to manage EC2 instances, autoscaling, patching, and more. With Fargate, you define each microservice as a task, setting the CPU/memory, container image, network rules, and AWS schedules, and then run them as needed. The result: faster deployment, lower ops overhead, and smooth scaling.

Testing ecosystems contain massive amounts of data, including outlined test scenarios, prerequisite configurations, and the tests themselves. As a result, these ecosystems are prone to data sprawl. This makes it difficult to prevent configuration drift and quickly spin up new tests, especially at the frequency needed to support a fast-growing application. Teams can handle these challenges by treating their tests as part of their application infrastructure.

Redgate Monitor now surfaces two common SQL Server query issues that usually take manual work to uncover: cancelled or aborted queries and high memory-grant queries. You can now see both in the Query Executions view for each SQL Server instance, directly alongside server activity and alerts, so you can diagnose the cause much faster. Recently, Redgate Monitor introduced the Query Executions feature for SQL Server instances, using Extended Events to capture execution details for individual queries.

TypeScript introduces the benefits of static typing to JavaScript, allowing developers to identify bugs at an earlier stage. However, relying solely on developers to run type checks locally isn’t enough. Without tsc being called, a person can just leave the invalid code and it may pass to production. This tutorial will show you how to set up CircleCI to automatically run the TypeScript type checks on each push.