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FinOps in the Age of Kubernetes: When Everyone Owns the Bill

A FinOps analyst walks into a Monday morning meeting with a detailed spreadsheet showing $2.3M in potential Kubernetes cost savings. The recommendations look straightforward: reduce memory limits by 40%, scale down replicas during off-peak hours, consolidate workloads onto fewer nodes. The numbers are compelling, the methodology is sound, and the savings would make a material impact on quarterly cloud spend. The SRE team immediately objects.

New dotConnect and Entity Developer Release: EF Core 10, AI Vector Types, and Expanded Database Compatibility

We are thrilled to announce a set of product updates across our dotConnect data providers and Entity Developer. The new release adds support for Entity Framework Core 10, introduces AI-focused vector data types across major databases, and extends compatibility with the newest platform capabilities such as SQL Server 2025, Oracle 26ai, and Microsoft Entra authentication.

Prompt, Deploy, Pray Is Dead: Validating AI Code with Proxymock

Recent outages tied to AI-assisted code changes have pushed companies into a corner. After several incidents with massive “blast radius” impacts, organizations like Amazon introduced stricter controls—mandating that senior engineers manually review all AI-generated code before it hits production. That response makes sense on paper, but it exposes a fatal flaw in the modern development pipeline.

Becoming an Azure Expert MSP

Recently, Wortell achieved the Microsoft Azure Expert MSP designation, a milestone that places them among a select group of managed service providers recognized for their Azure expertise and operational maturity. In this webinar, Alex Tilgenkamp (Azure Cloud Architect at Wortell) shares insights into what it takes to achieve this designation and what it means for organizations building and scaling their Azure managed services practice.

GreenOps in Practice: What It Means and How to Get Ready for 2026

In this informational webinar, Freddie Booth, FinOps Consultant at Capgemini Invent, explains what GreenOps means in the context of modern cloud operations. You’ll learn why GreenOps is gaining attention across organizations using Azure, how it connects cost management with sustainability, and what steps teams can take today to start preparing for 2026. The session focuses on practical ways to improve cloud efficiency, reduce unnecessary Azure usage, and align FinOps practices with emerging sustainability goals.

Streamlining your NIS2 and DORA compliance solution with HAProxy

With NIS2 and DORA now in effect, EU organizations face a fundamental shift in how they approach security. Compliance is a standard built into every layer of your environment, from your hardware and OS to your software configuration. HAProxy alone doesn't make an organization compliant, yet it serves as a critical technical component of a strong security strategy.

Test Data Management and SOC 2 Compliance

Using live data outside production is one of the fastest ways to create compliance risk, because it quickly becomes harder to control who can access it, how it is handled, and how long it is kept. A Test Data Management (TDM) approach provides exactly the kind of controls SOC 2 auditors look for in this situation: an automated, traceable end-to-end process for protecting, provisioning, and removing customer data so it can be used safely in non-production environments.

Why mid-market IT teams lose control as dev velocity increases

At a certain point, faster delivery stops feeling like progress and starts feeling like risk. When engineering teams scale from 10 to 50+ developers, the volume of infrastructure changes, database schemas, environment variables, and networking rules, no longer grows linearly. It scales exponentially. This is the scaling inflection point where manual governance breaks.