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On-Demand Vs. Spot Instances: What's The Difference?

Feb 27, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
Whether you’re in finance or engineering, you know keeping your customers happy is the key to success. That means, your SaaS product or service needs to be available, reliable, and cost-effective virtually all the time. On that note, you can determine how stable and high-performing your service is depending on whether you use On-Demand or Spot Instances. Pricing, capacity, and flexibility will also vary depending on which of the two instances you choose.
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graylog

Your Data is Whispering and Needs a Human to Listen

Feb 27, 2026 By The Graylog Team In Graylog
If you have ever owned, operated, or supported a piece of technology, you have probably built a dashboard. Maybe it started as a quick chart to answer a simple question, then quietly grew into something more important. Dashboards are often created by the people who know the systems best, the ones who can wire together data sources and click all the right buttons. But those same builders are rarely trained in how humans actually interpret data.
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canonical

Canonical and Ubuntu RISC-V: a 2025 retro and looking forward to 2026

Feb 27, 2026 By Canonical In Canonical
2025 was the year that RISC-V readiness gave way to RISC-V adoption. It’s been quite a journey. What began years ago as early architectural exploration and enablement has matured into real silicon, systems, and deployments. In particular, RVA23 provides a stable and predictable baseline we can align on with our wider ecosystem of partners. At Canonical, we’re committed to making RISC-V a viable option for anyone who wishes to adopt it.
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spike

Understanding L1, L2, L3 escalation policy

Feb 27, 2026 By Sreekar In Spike
L1, L2, L3 is one of the most common ways to structure an escalation policy. The idea is simple: an incident triggers and lands with a first responder. If it needs more attention, it moves up the chain to someone with more expertise. This guide explains how each tier works, when this structure makes sense, and what to keep in mind when setting one up.
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redgate

The Complexity Myth in Test Data Management

Feb 27, 2026 By James Hemson In Redgate
This is a guest post from James Hemson. For years, the test data management market has told smaller companies the same story. Test data is complex. You need consultants. Compliance is expensive. Expect a six-month implementation before you see any value. At Redgate we think that's wrong. And we think it's wrong by design. Complexity creates services revenue. It creates switching costs. Most vendors have built their businesses around this.
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Feature Friday: New Bird's Eye Report

Feb 27, 2026 By Cortex | Internal Developer Portal In Cortex
Stop squinting at data and start driving engineering excellence. In this week’s Feature Friday, Christine from the Cortex Product Team introduces the all-new Birdseye Report (now in private beta). See how to master your engineering standards at scale. We’ve redesigned Birdseye to give you a true "top-down" view of scorecard performance across your entire organization—from the CTO level down to a single service.
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Grafana Campfire - Back to Basics - (Grafana Community Call - Feb 2026)

Feb 27, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
Grafana Campfire Community Calls are back. We are starting with *Back to the Basics.* Even though you heard it so many times, but some of you are either new to or not very experienced with terms such as monitoring, observability, metrics, tracing, profiling etc. The good news is that you're not alone, and we've got this!! This will be a perfect learning opportunity to gain understanding during this live call and ask questions if anything is not clear.
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Block Builder: a new Mimir Component (Mimir Community Call February 2026)

Feb 27, 2026 By Grafana In Grafana
At today’s community call, we will hear from David Grant, one of the engineers who has brought a new component, the Block Builder, into Mimir. Using the Ingest Storage architecture in Mimir 3.0, the Block Builder takes over the block-building responsibility from the Ingester. This feature is experimental in Mimir today, but is rolling out to production inside of Grafana Labs now. This is a great time to introduce the component, discuss the motivation, and show where it fits in the larger architecture.
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