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“Every engineering decision is a cost decision,” notes Ben Johnson, co-founder and CTO of Obsidian Security. That’s the reality of building modern SaaS products in the cloud. But as Ben points out, the answer isn’t to make engineers think long and hard about every dollar they spend. “You don’t want your team hesitating to solve risky technical problems because a choice might add $100 to the bill.

This fall and winter have had their share of major outages (including AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare), and December was no exception. On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a 25-minute outage that served responses with HTTP 500 errors to about 28% of HTTP traffic served by Cloudflare. Since Cloudflare handles an average of 81 million HTTP requests per second, this represents a substantial chunk of internet traffic, including LinkedIn, Zoom, and Downdetector.

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Security used to be something teams added at the end of a release cycle. Engineering pushed code fast. Security teams reviewed it later. But this flow only worked when the software moved slowly. Modern cloud environments broke the old security model. Containers, microservices, APIs, and infrastructure as code now change too fast for security to sit outside delivery workflows.

Every time I step on set with a guest for FinOps In Full Bloom, I’m anticipating the lightbulb moments I know will pop up during the podcast. These are the conversations that reveal how curiosity and collaboration can spark real transformation in the cloud.

This blog post is based on Florent Huck, Developer Advocate at Upsun, at SymfonyCon 2023. We utilized AI tools for transcription and to enhance the structure and clarity of the content. The journey from a single monolithic application to a multi-application architecture doesn't have to be daunting. At a recent developer conference, Florent from Upsun's Developer Relations team shared a practical step-by-step guide on how to refactor a monolith into multiple applications using Upsun.

Netdata has an incredibly powerful alerting engine. But this can sometimes be a double-edged sword: the flexibility to build incredibly specific, intelligent alerts is immense, but mastering its syntax can feel like learning a new language. We’ve heard this from so many of you. You tell us that configuring alerts is often the steepest part of the learning curve, a task that falls to the one “Netdata expert” on the team who has spent the time digging through the documentation.