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Monitor Azure Functions across every hosting plan with Datadog

Microsoft’s Azure Functions serverless compute service abstracts away infrastructure management to simplify how teams deploy and operate applications. However, the managed environment can make it harder to understand what happens inside those applications after deployment. Traditional approaches that rely on agents, extensions, and sidecars for direct collection of telemetry data aren’t available across every Azure Functions hosting plan, which can leave gaps in end-to-end visibility.

Minga's developers point AI tools at their own infrastructure

Matt Zytaruk, VP of Technology at Minga, on what changed once his developers could point their AI tools at their own infrastructure. Minga checks in 1.5 million students across the eastern seaboard every school morning. They run that platform on Control Plane, which gives their team an MCP server, a CLI, and Terraform-native resources — so a developer can investigate an issue and generate the code for the change without waiting on anyone.

Cloud Migration for Financial Services Operations

The financial services industry, traditionally cautious and reliant on legacy on-premise infrastructure, is now decisively shifting its operations to the cloud. This migration is driven by the urgent need for greater agility, improved operational efficiency, and the capacity to innovate at the speed of a rapidly changing market. Moving beyond simple data storage, financial institutions are re-architecting their core functions to harness the full potential of cloud computing, transforming everything from customer-facing applications to back-office transaction processing.

Overlapping Subnets: When Duplicate CIDRs Create Risk

An overlapping subnet can sit quietly for years - until two networks need to connect. A duplicate CIDR (Classless Inter-Domain Routing), an IP address range such as 10.0.0.0/24, may cause you no immediate trouble while networks remain isolated. During an expansion, acquisition, or cloud migration, however, that same overlap can become a connectivity blocker. Cloud peering is one place where the issue becomes unavoidable.

AI cost governance: policies to control AI spend

AI cost governance is the set of policies and controls that keep AI spend predictable and attributable: budget caps and token quotas set before deployment, prompt caching to cut repeat token costs, hard limits on reasoning steps and tool calls, and unified allocation so every dollar maps to a team, feature, or customer. Governance fails when it's advisory. It works when the caps are enforced in the platform and someone owns the number.

Sovereign cloud and open source: Why software freedom matters for digital sovereignty

The sovereign cloud conversation has been dominated by physical location and legal jurisdiction. Both matter. But there's a third leg most discussions skip: the software stack itself. If the platform running a sovereign cloud is proprietary code controlled by a company in another country, its sovereignty has a soft underside.

How to Reduce Resource Waste with Kubernetes

Kubernetes has changed the way teams deploy and scale applications, but many organizations overlook a critical aspect of running it well: resource utilization. Kubernetes excels at scheduling and scaling workloads. Making sure those workloads actually use the resources they reserve still falls on operations teams.

Cloud Migration Providers: Comparing Systems Integrators, Dev Shops, and Self-Service Platforms

Three ways to run a cloud migration compared: systems integrators, dev-shop staff augmentation, and self-service PaaS platforms like Qovery. How to choose. Melanie leads content at Qovery. She covers platform engineering trends, Kubernetes operations, FinOps, and the tools that help engineering teams ship faster.