Confluent Cloud Pricing: A Complete Cost Guide for Streaming Infrastructure (2026)
Confluent Cloud pricing ranges from $1,000–$200,000+/month based on cluster type, throughput, and add-ons.
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What's New with Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0
Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 helps IT teams improve network visibility, strengthen security and work more efficiently. In this recorded webinar, explore what’s included in this free upgrade for customers with an active service agreement, including: Learn how Progress WhatsUp Gold 2026.0 can deliver proactive visibility with trusted security across your IT infrastructure.
#057 - From Pagers to Pair Programming: Navigating Massive Scale and AI with Stefana Muller (Sale...
In this episode of "Kubernetes for Humans," Stefana Muller, VP of Infrastructure & Operations at Salesforce, shares her fascinating journey from technical support to navigating the massive scale of the Own Backup acquisition. Stefana dives into the immense multi-cloud Kubernetes challenges of scaling from 18,000 to over 52,000 clusters, standardizing environments across AWS and Azure, and leveling up security to meet stringent Salesforce standards.
How to use Ubuntu on Windows
Why run Ubuntu on Windows? It’s about getting the best of both worlds. Many organizations rely on Windows applications, enterprise software, and policy configurations; but for developers and system administrators, Ubuntu’s native command-line tools, package managers, and server environments are invaluable. Likewise, with its broad ecosystem of machine learning tools and libraries, and silicon optimizations, Ubuntu is ideally suited for AI workloads.
10 Trusted Landscaping Companies in Hamilton for Design and Construction - Action Home Services Leads in 2026
Hamilton homeowners searching for a full-service landscaping companies need look no further. Action Home Services leads this 2026 list with 60+ industry awards, 2,000+ verified five-star reviews, and a 10-year written workmanship warranty. Here are 10 trusted companies covering design and construction in Hamilton right now. Canada's landscaping services market reached $14.6 billion in 2025, according to IBISWorld . That growth brings more providers into Hamilton, giving homeowners more choices and more reason to vet credentials before signing any contract.
What managed IT actually looks like for a small business
Most small businesses I work with around Milwaukee don't have an IT department. They have a guy. Sometimes the guy is a salaried staff member who's "good with computers." Sometimes it's the office manager. Sometimes it's the owner's nephew. For years, that arrangement is fine. Until it isn't. The break point is usually one of three things: somebody clicks on a phishing email, a server dies on a Friday afternoon, or the internet provider swaps out the modem and now nothing works.
How AI Is Changing the Way Images Are Created
For most of modern history, creating images required skill, time, and specialized tools. Whether it was photography, illustration, or graphic design, the barrier to entry was clear: you had to learn the craft. AI image generation is changing that dynamic, and the shift is happening faster than many people expected. Today, anyone can describe an idea in plain language and receive a detailed visual in seconds. That alone has reshaped expectations around creativity, productivity, and ownership. But the real impact of AI image generation goes deeper than convenience.
April 2026: IsDown Users Saved 16.5 Hours with Early Outage Detection
In April 2026, IsDown's early detection system gave users a 3.6-hour head start on a major outage — plenty of time to implement workarounds before the vendor even acknowledged the problem. Across 45 early detections, our users saved a collective 16.5 hours by knowing about outages an average of 22 minutes before official status pages were updated.
Real-Time Database Monitoring: Solving Database Latency with Zero-Code eBPF Tracing
In high-throughput database environments, a latency spike is rarely a simple story. Modern data layers are distributed, stateful, and constantly changing as shards move, nodes rebalance, caches warm, queries evolve, and connections churn. In practice, spikes usually come from one of three places: For many SRE and Platform teams, the real challenge is disconnected tooling. As one engineering lead recently shared during a technical workshop: “It’s all disconnected.
A guide to setting up alerts for a new service
When you launch a new service in production, you’re working with a lot of unknowns. You don’t yet know how it behaves under real traffic or which incidents are worth waking someone up for. That makes alerting for a new service a little different from what you’re used to with an established one. The goal in the early days isn’t to get everything perfectly configured. It’s to learn enough about the service to get your alerting right.