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The Role of Social Media Attention in Business Growth

Building a business today requires more than just a good product or service. You need a way to reach people where they spend most of their time. Social media has become the main stage for this interaction, turning digital scrolling into a powerful growth tool for brands of all sizes.

Install Kubernetes Cost Optimization: How to Get Started with Pepperdata

To watch the full walkthrough video on the Pepperdata self-service install, click the link here. Many organizations struggle to efficiently manage their cloud costs, and that arises from difficulties in managing Kubernetes resources. Of the $419 billion spent on cloud infrastructure in 2025 (Synergy Research Group), Flexera estimates that 27% of all of cloud spend is wasted due to overprovisioned resources.

Golang memory arenas [101 guide]

Go 1.20 introduced an experimental arena package that lets you allocate many objects from a contiguous region of memory and free them all at once — bypassing the garbage collector entirely. The package remains experimental and its future is uncertain, but arenas are a valuable concept for understanding Go memory management and writing high-performance code. The arena package is experimental and on hold indefinitely. The Go team has made no guarantees about compatibility or its continued existence.

How Strategic Partnerships Are Reshaping Modern Product Development

Product development rarely happens inside a single organization anymore. As software platforms grow more complex and industries become more interconnected, companies increasingly rely on external partners to help design, build, and deliver new products. Cloud providers, platform vendors, engineering partners, and specialized research organizations now play an essential role in modern development environments. Instead of building every component internally, many companies operate within ecosystems where collaboration across organizations is necessary to move products forward.
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Top infrastructure monitoring mistakes (and how to avoid them)

Infrastructure monitoring is meant to simplify operations, not overwhelm teams with noise. Yet the average IT team receives more than 10,000 alerts every day. Despite this constant stream of notifications, critical issues still slip through the cracks. This volume of fragmented data creates a dangerous visibility gap across the infrastructure. As a result, teams can spend more time sorting through alerts than actually resolving issues.

New dotConnect and Entity Developer Release: EF Core 10, AI Vector Types, and Expanded Database Compatibility

We are thrilled to announce a set of product updates across our dotConnect data providers and Entity Developer. The new release adds support for Entity Framework Core 10, introduces AI-focused vector data types across major databases, and extends compatibility with the newest platform capabilities such as SQL Server 2025, Oracle 26ai, and Microsoft Entra authentication.

Prompt, Deploy, Pray Is Dead: Validating AI Code with Proxymock

Recent outages tied to AI-assisted code changes have pushed companies into a corner. After several incidents with massive “blast radius” impacts, organizations like Amazon introduced stricter controls—mandating that senior engineers manually review all AI-generated code before it hits production. That response makes sense on paper, but it exposes a fatal flaw in the modern development pipeline.

How CloudZero Measures Cost Per Customer (Step By Step)

Like most SaaS companies, CloudZero uses its own product. When we released cost per customer reporting, we tested it on ourselves first. And today, we use cost per customer reports regularly. Why? Because they help leadership answer board and renewal questions, including customer-level margins. Cost per customer is valuable and hard to get right. Multi-tenant systems and Kubernetes can hide the link between shared infrastructure (like EC2) and the customers using it.

The Best FP&A Software For 2026: 21 Tools To Know

Modern FP&A tools help SaaS businesses analyze financial performance in real time, forecast accurately, and align spend with business priorities — especially cloud spend, which can quickly spiral without visibility. Choosing the right FP&A tool for your business means understanding what you actually need it to do — whether that’s cloud cost visibility, more accurate forecasting, or tighter alignment between finance and engineering.

The Obkio Story: Building a Network Observability & Monitoring Solution

In 2016, before Obkio existed, we ran a market audit. We interviewed banks, manufacturing companies, and service providers, and asked them one simple question: Why aren't you using a Network Performance Monitoring solution? The answer was unanimous: the tools were too complex, and nobody had the internal resources to run them full-time. If that was true for enterprises with dedicated networking staff, it was even more true for smaller businesses with generalist IT teams.