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The cloud optionality blueprint: standardizing the stack to end vendor lock-in

Apr 30, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Key takeaway: Real cloud strategy isn't about running the same workload everywhere at once; it’s about the freedom to move when you need to. By standardizing the unified configuration file, Upsun enables true cloud optionality, moving provider migration from a re-architect project to a data move project.
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How to Test SQS Workflows Locally with LocalStack and OpenTelemetry

Apr 30, 2026 By Prathamesh Sonpatki In Last9
LocalStack lets you run SQS, Lambda, and S3 locally in Docker — but there's a hidden trap: OpenTelemetry's default AWS propagator doesn't work with free LocalStack. Here's how to set up end-to-end local testing with working trace propagation. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.
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What happens when you delete everything? Three minutes, or thirty hours.

Apr 30, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Last year, at the annual conference for an open source framework you've definitely heard of, I walked up to the founder in a room outside the main stage. He was hunched over his laptop, frantic. We've known each other for a few years. "What's going on? Is everything okay?" He looked up with the specific shade of white people only get when they realize they've made a big mistake.
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Five questions your platform evaluation is missing

Apr 29, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Years back I sat in on a platform evaluation with a customer who spent forty-five minutes of the meeting focusing on one thing: their custom PHP content management system. They had opinions about the CMS. Strong opinions. They had benchmarks, a migration plan, a proof of concept. They had a diagram. They had questions about the deployment pipeline for this CMS that were, for a single application, more thoroughly considered than most organizations' entire infrastructure strategies.
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5 Best SOC 2 Continuous Monitoring Tools for SaaS: Closing the 20% Manual Evidence Gap

5 Best SOC 2 Continuous Monitoring Tools for SaaS: Closing the 20% Manual Evidence Gap

Apr 29, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Landing a big-logo customer feels great-until their security questionnaire hits your inbox. For most B2B SaaS teams, SOC 2 compliance is the roadblock. You connect a tool, dashboards turn green, and then stall: about 20% of evidence still needs screenshots, sign-offs, or frantic Slack chases. That last-mile grind drags engineers back into spreadsheets just when the audit seems done.
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15: Optimizing AI Workloads: Balancing Cost, Performance, and Scalability with Bijit Ghosh

Apr 28, 2026 By Kubex In Densify
In this episode, Andrew Hillier and Bijit Ghosh discuss the evolving landscape of AI, discussing the growing prominence of inference over training, hybrid cloud strategies, balancing cost with performance, and the orchestration of complex hardware environments. The conversation also touches on emerging concepts like AI factories, the challenges of sovereign cloud, and how enterprises are navigating data gravity and regulatory constraints. It's a deep dive into optimizing AI infrastructure, managing costs, and the disruptive changes that are transforming both technology and business outcomes.
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Accelerating AI Agent Development on Google Cloud with JFrog MCP Registry

Apr 28, 2026 By Guy Eshet In JFrog
Developers building agentic AI on Google Cloud have powerful infrastructure at their fingertips: Gemini 3 for reasoning, Google’s Agent Development Kit (ADK) for orchestration, and a rapidly expanding ecosystem of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that connect agents to data and tools. So why are so many teams still waiting weeks to ship their first agent to production?
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ShipTalk Season 4 Finale: Engineering Excellence at AWS re:Invent

Apr 28, 2026 By Harness In Harness
Welcome to the Season 4 finale of the Ship Talk podcast! Join special host Thomas Dockstader and several industry leaders at AWS re:Invent to discuss the intersection of AI and software delivery. The following is a series of interviews with partners, customers, and engineering leaders on the front lines of AI transformation. Don't miss the "Ship It or Skip It" segment, where our guests give their rapid-fire takes on everything from AI code reviews to the four-day work week.
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