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How Hyperscalers Use Credits to Keep You Hooked!

The hyperscaler model is built on bait: generous cloud credits for years, especially if you're VC-backed. But there's a serious catch. In this clip, Canopy's James Marks talk about the expected consequence of taking those "free" credits. It's not just about attracting customers; it's about deepening reliance on proprietary platform-native tools. It’s the ultimate vendor lock-in strategy, making it costly and complicated to break away later.

GitKraken Desktop 11.6 Release: Shallow Cloned Repo Support

GitKraken Desktop 11.6 is here, shaped by real developer feedback. This release introduces support for shallow clones, a long-requested feature that improves performance for large repos and CI workflows. Simply open a shallow-cloned repo from the New Tab and you’re in. We’ve also made GitKraken AI more controllable and more contextual.

Getting Started with InfluxDB 3 Core: From Installation to First Query in 10 Minutes

Getting started with any database technology can be daunting, and nothing is ever as easy as a snap of the fingers. With InfluxDB 3, we’ve made it as painless as possible. If you want to do some testing, development, or exploration, you’ve read the title: you should be up and running in under 10 minutes with very little hassle.

Replacing AT&T Email-to-Text with OnPage's Critical Alerting

When AT&T officially shut down its email-to-text and text-to-email service on June 17, 2025, a quiet but essential part of many organizations’ communication workflows disappeared overnight. Messages that used to be sent to addresses like simply stopped delivering. For teams who relied on those alerts to reach the on-call clinician, engineer, technician, or service lead — this created an unexpected and urgent gap. This wasn’t just a convenience feature going away.

Announcing HAProxy Unified Gateway (beta)

The continuous shift toward containerization means businesses are migrating more complex, mission-critical workloads to Kubernetes. This trend necessitates traffic management solutions that support diverse protocols (such as TCP, UDP, HTTP, and gRPC) and sophisticated organizational architectures, while delivering exceptional performance and efficiency.

Dropbox vs iCloud: Which One to Choose in 2025

If you’re in the market for cloud storage, then Dropbox and iCloud may be high up on your list. If you’re an Apple user, you automatically get 5GB of free storage with your device. But the question is, should you upgrade your iCloud account, or go for another service like Dropbox? If you’re considering Dropbox vs iCloud, then this article is for you, as we will cover the following topics to help you make your decision.