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What Is Azure SQL?

Jun 30, 2025 By dbForge Team In Devart

Modern cloud solutions mean much more than just data storage. Cloud technologies cover virtual services, including analytics, databases, networking, servers, and storage via the internet. Such a giant as Microsoft is among the most prominent cloud providers with its Azure platform. “Platform as a Service,” or PaaS, is a popular solution for database specialists. It is a powerful database engine that allows you to perform most database management routines.

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Spike vs. PagerDuty: Which On-Call Management Tool Is Better in 2025

Jun 30, 2025 By Sreekar In Spike

If you’re stuck between choosing Spike vs. PagerDuty for your on-call management, you’re at the right place. I wrote this blog post to end your confusion and help you make a better choice. I’ve presented a comparative analysis for these two tools across 4 key criteria (keep reading to find what they are). For each criterion, there’s either a winner or a tie. When it’s a tie, each tool gets one point. If there’s a winner, that tool gets two points.

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Prometheus Gauges vs Counters: What to Use and When

Jun 30, 2025 By Anjali Udasi In Last9

Choosing the wrong metric type in Prometheus can lead to inaccurate dashboards, false positives in alerting, and missed indicators of system failure. Gauge metrics are intended for tracking values that can go up and down, such as memory usage, queue depth, or the number of active connections. Unlike counters, which only increment (or reset on restart), gauges reflect the current state of a resource at scrape time.

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The $465M Bug: What Every Dev Needs to Know About Code Health

Jun 30, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken

Is your codebase quietly killing developer productivity? In this talk from GitKon, Jai Predeesh (co-founder of DeepSource) breaks down why code health is more than a buzzword... it’s a critical lever for preventing failures, improving dev morale, and scaling without firefighting. From Knight Capital’s $465M bug to subtle security flaws in AI-generated code, this session shows how automated static analysis can catch the issues that escape human eyes and PR reviews.

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Why Code Health Matters for Productivity

Jun 30, 2025 By GitKraken In GitKraken

Half your dev time = not building, but debugging. That’s $300B in lost global productivity every year. Here’s why code health isn’t optional anymore.

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A Guide To Azure Database Pricing (And Reducing Costs)

Jun 30, 2025 By Cody Slingerland In CloudZero

You spun up Azure SQL for your app backend, added Cosmos DB for global performance, and let your devs explore PostgreSQL freely. Everything worked — until the invoice hit. Your engineers need high availability and performance. Your CFO wants predictability. And you’re stuck trying to untangle what, exactly, is driving your Azure bill. You’re not alone. Between service types, pricing tiers, and throughput models, Azure database pricing can surprise even experienced teams.

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3 Reasons Why It Is So Hard To Match Qovery

Jun 30, 2025 By Romaric Philogène In Qovery

Since 2020, Qovery has taken a contrarian approach in a market dominated by short-term compromises. While others built "yet-another-PaaS" platforms, we made three deliberate bets that made Qovery different and much harder to replicate.

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Enterprise Drupal: why hosting choice impacts your success

Jun 30, 2025 By Shawna Spoor In Upsun

Deploying a large-scale Drupal application involves numerous decisions, and one of the most significant is where to host it. Should you keep everything on-premises, use a managed hosting provider, or opt for a modern PaaS like Upsun? Each approach has trade-offs. In this article, we’ll dive into the real-world technical pitfalls of on-premises and managed hosting, and then explore how Upsun addresses those challenges in an enterprise Drupal context.

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Get Ready for the Next Level of Gaming!

Jun 30, 2025 By Civo In Civo

Recorded at Civo Navigate Austin 2025, join industry experts from Perforce, Gametree, and Streamfog as they share their insights on the current state of technology in gaming, cloud-native technologies, and the future of tech in gaming. This panel discussion explores the latest trends and innovations in game development, AI-powered gaming, and emerging business models, revealing how the gaming industry is leveraging cloud-native technologies, AI, and other cutting-edge tech to drive innovation and growth.

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Kubernetes Cost Optimization Done Right

Jun 30, 2025 By Ilan Adler In Komodor

Kubernetes was never just about cost savings. It was built to be a robust, scalable, and efficient platform for orchestrating containerized applications. And it was meant to abstract infrastructure away so developers could move quickly and go about their business of developing. But as Kubernetes adoption scaled, so did cloud bills. FinOps tools emerged to rein in spending, but most only scratch the surface.

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