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It is no longer news that MariaDB 12 has officially landed, and it’s making waves across the database world. For over a decade, MariaDB has been the go-to open-source database for developers and businesses seeking a stable and innovative MySQL-compatible platform. This new release further enhances its value. MariaDB 12 delivers major performance upgrades, new features, and significant redesigns to enhance speed, scalability, and developers’ experience.

Cursor is fantastic at cranking out code changes. I recently used it to splice a brand-new downstream API call into one of our Go microservices, and the diff looked great. The unit tests finished before I lifted my coffee mug, yet I still had zero certainty the change would survive contact with real traffic. That gap is all about integration tests, so I paired Cursor with proxymock and the outerspace-go demo service to prove the behavior end to end.

Struggling with latency, congestion, or compliance issues? Discover when it’s time to move from public internet to private connectivity. Network operations have never demanded more than they do now, leading many network managers to question whether the public internet is enough. While many organizations begin their network journey with VPNs over the public internet, they often bump into limitations quickly and begin exploring the natural next step – private connectivity.

Engineering leaders face a constant barrage of questions that pull them away from strategic work. A team lead asks about scorecard compliance. A PM wants a status update on a migration. Someone needs incident trend data for a quarterly review. Each question is reasonable. Each requires context switching, digging through dashboards, or pinging someone on your team for a report. What if you could just ask?

If you’ve ever tried to make sense of your AWS bill, you know how fast things get messy. Different accounts, hundreds of services, random tags, and suddenly, no one can say for sure who’s spending what or why the total looks so high. It’s not that teams don’t care about costs — it’s that AWS billing data isn’t always easy to interpret. Finance wants accountability. Engineering wants visibility. And somewhere between the two, ownership disappears.

If there’s one thing we’ve learned at CloudZero, it’s that success in FinOps isn’t just about having the right tools. It’s about knowing how to use them, and understanding the “why” behind every number, dimension, and dashboard.

Cloudflare-like outages can cost your business a significant amount of money. This week’s Cloudflare global outage is a wake-up call for business resilience. You can stay resilient against such outages by regularly performing resilience testing and updating your application or infrastructure configurations.

Multi-agent AI systems are trending in the software development industry right now. These systems consist of a group of individual agents that collaborate to achieve a desired goal. They mimic real world teams and departments in how they are organized. In multi-agent AI systems, each agent is assigned a task that is required to achieve a final output.