Strong, wide-reaching regulation can bring safety to communities – but it can also bring uncertainty. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) has proven no exception to this universal rule. Across the open source community and the wider tech landscape, people have been greeting the news with the whole spectrum of reactions: concern, anxiety, hope. But is there anything to fear? Does the CRA really change things in open source? And how should your teams be preparing for this legislation?

Today I am very happy to announce the general availability of Blue Green and Canary releases for Kubernetes on Cloud 66. Allowing Blue Green and Canary releases for Kubernetes is the result of months of hard work by the team here at Cloud 66 and I am very pleased with the results. We wanted our Blue Green and Canary releases to be simple to use and I think we have found the sweet spot between flexibility and ease of use. Today we are also rolling out Preview deployments to GA for all our customers.

End-of-day (EOD) processing is a vital routine for retail businesses, encompassing a series of essential tasks that ensure seamless store operations. At the close of each business day, various systems must reconcile transactions, update inventory, process sales data, and generate reports. These activities are crucial for maintaining accurate financial records, optimizing stock levels, and preparing for the next business day.

In our recent blog we talked about how having separate tools for On-Call and for alerting sucks! And how Squadcast offers a lifeline with its all-in-one Incident Management and Reliability Automation platform by amalgamating multiple tool functionality under a single hood. This blog is all about how you can easily transition from your current Incident Management & alerting tool into a better and more reliable enterprise grade platform with Squadcast.

For 20 years, Ubuntu has been at the cutting edge of technology. Pioneers looking to innovate new technologies and ideas choose Ubuntu as the medium to do it, whether they’re building devices for space, deploying a fleet of robots or building up financial infrastructure. The rise of machine learning is no exception and has encouraged people to develop their models on Ubuntu at different scales.

VMware Tanzu CloudHealth is a market leading multi-cloud financial management (or FinOps) platform that helps organizations make sense of their cloud data, optimize and control cloud spend, and grow their cloud management practice. More than 22,000 organizations globally rely on our platform to optimize and govern over $24B in annual multi-cloud spend.

Internal Developer Portals (IDPs) have increasingly found their way to the center of engineering operations. As the new engineering system of record, IDPs make it possible to align and enforce standards while unlocking safe developer self-service. Of course, oft-cited benefits like removing friction and improving consistency might feel intangible or even duplicative to other tools in your stack. So how should engineering leaders think about evaluating IDPs?

Organizations are turning to Virtual Private Servers (VPS) for scalable and cost-effective hosting solutions. Google offers a robust VPS option tailored to various organizational needs. Understanding Google VPS pricing can help you make informed decisions and optimize your cloud costs. This guide will explain Google VPS pricing, explore its uses, and provide tips for optimizing these costs with CloudZero.