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How Right-Sizing Ephemeral Environments Reduces Cloud Costs

Ephemeral environments supercharge development velocity-but if left unchecked, they can quietly drain your cloud budget. The answer? Right-sizing: a strategy that tailors resource allocation to real-world usage. Done right, it can slash cloud expenses by 30% to 70%. Let's dive into how this works-and why more teams are making it part of their CI/CD pipelines.
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How to Reduce Continuous Monitoring Costs

Continuous monitoring is a crucial practice in the fields of DevOps, cybersecurity, and compliance. It involves the proactive and ongoing process of observing, assessing, and collecting data from various systems, applications, and infrastructure components in real-time or near real-time. Continuous monitoring is closely related to observability, which goes beyond simple monitoring to provide a deep understanding of complex and dynamic systems.
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How to Choose the Right Incident Management Tool for Your Team

IT disruptions are inevitable. What separates a resilient organization from the rest is its ability to respond quickly, efficiently, and collaboratively to incidents. The cornerstone of such responsiveness? The right incident management tool. But with a market flooded with tools, each promising to revolutionize your workflows, how do you pick the one that truly fits your team's needs? In this blog, we'll break down the key factors to consider when selecting an incident management tool, ensuring you make an informed decision that enhances your team's effectiveness and reliability.

Ribbon Expands Portfolio of DISA JITC-Certified Solutions in Support of U.S. Department of Defense Network Deployments

Ribbon Communications Inc. announces the expansion of its portfolio of Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)-certified solutions. The Ribbon Policy Engine Server (PSX), Ribbon Application Management Platform (RAMP), and Ribbon Analytics have been added to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Approved Products List (APL), reinforcing Ribbon's commitment to delivering secure, mission-critical communications infrastructure.

Introducing 400G Ports

Discover why 400G is growing in popularity across industries, and how you can deploy it with Megaport. The Megaport team is excited to introduce 400G ports. This addition to our network offering gives enterprises, cloud builders, and service providers access to ultra-high bandwidth on demand, making it easier than ever to interconnect clouds, data centers, and services at massive scale. If your IT team is already using 100G bandwidth, the need for 400G might creep up more quickly than you think.

A Practical Guide to Python Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

When your Python app starts slowing down, maybe queries are taking longer, memory keeps creeping up, or API calls are lagging—basic server metrics won’t tell you why. You need to see what’s happening inside the application itself. That’s the role of Application Performance Monitoring (APM). It gives you a breakdown of database queries, external API calls, memory usage, error rates, and more, so you can connect the dots between code and performance.

The Journey to Zero Ticket IT with Agentic Automation

See how RITA, Resolve’s intelligent AI agent, instantly resolves IT issues before they become tickets. In this live demo, you'll get a front-row seat to how RITA automates routine service desk requests, helps technicians troubleshoot faster, and brings the Zero Ticket IT vision to life. Hosted by Ian Coppock and demoed by Derek Pascarella, this is automation in action.

Redgate Monitor Adds Support for Oracle Multitenant

Redgate Monitor now gives you full visibility into activity across Oracle Multitenant environments. With metrics and alerts at both the Container Database (CDB) and Pluggable Database (PDB) level, you can quickly pinpoint performance issues and ensure compliance. With the introduction of Oracle multitenant architecture in Oracle 12c, many teams began consolidating databases into a single Container database (CDB). This helped them to optimize resource usage and simplify patching.

DeepSeek Pricing: Models, How It Works, And Saving Tips

Some teams won’t touch DeepSeek because it’s Chinese. Others are quietly running pilots and rethinking how much reasoning and context they actually need, or can afford. For SaaS teams staring down runaway AI costs, DeepSeek’s mix of open-source freedom, massive context windows, and token rates 10–30X cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic is tough to ignore. However, DeepSeek pricing comes with cache hits, cache misses, off-peak discounts, that September pricing shift, and more.