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The cloud offers many benefits, including scalability, cost savings, and operational efficiency. But here’s the deal. Organizing, monitoring, and controlling a cloud environment can become complex as workloads, applications, services, and underlying infrastructure grow. Businesses can better control and monitor their cloud infrastructure services, resources, and data using cloud management software.

One of my favorite new PostgreSQL 18 features which hasn’t had much attention yet is tracking session-level IO stats. It’s going to be really helpful for more quickly finding problematic queries in real-time – kudos in particular to Bertrand Drouvot for the work on it!

Global cloud spending will surge past $700 billion this year. Megacaps alone will spend more than $300 billion on AI in 2025, with much more on the way. The innovation potential of the cloud has never been higher, never been more hotly contested, and never come with a higher price tag. In the late 2000s, the cloud reshaped the global economy and enabled life as we know it. Now, in the mid 2020s, AI is poised to do the same.

HAProxy 3.2 is here, and this release gives you more of what matters most: exceptional performance and efficiency, best-in-class SSL/TLS, deep observability, and flexible control over your traffic. These powerful capabilities help HAProxy remain the G2 category leader in API management, container networking, DDoS protection, web application firewall (WAF), and load balancing.

If you’re working with containers, SBOMs or any kind of vulnerability scan, you know the drill. Every scan lights up like a Christmas tree. Critical, high, medium and low vulnerabilities. It feels that the list will always go on. The goal is always zero CVEs. And while that sounds great, it’s not realistic. They come at such a high pace, and sometimes they are really hard to resolve. Teams are spending time chasing vulnerabilities that don’t matter.

Our first turnkey dashboard gives you a real-time pulse on engineering health. Every chart is interactive: click any bar or data point to drill down into the underlying PRs, commits, or incidents. And we’re just getting started; more dashboards are already on the way!

Whether it's ensuring a new service is fully equipped with security scanning, logging, and monitoring from the start, enforcing production readiness checks during deployment, or providing temporary credentials for a production database, Workflows directly support Engineering Excellence Initiatives around modernization and standardization.

Today we’re thrilled to announce the launch of Entity Relationships, a powerful new capability that gives you more flexibility and control over the data model in your IDP. By allowing you to create custom relationships between entities in your catalog, you can model your internal developer portal to accurately reflect your own organization’s taxonomy, letting you better answer deep questions about your environments, releases, packages, and beyond.

Today marks an exciting milestone not just for Cortex, but for every organization looking to foster a culture of engineering excellence. Knowing who owns what is one of the hardest and most important challenges for engineering teams. Without clear ownership, incidents take longer to resolve, migrations stall, and enforcing standards becomes nearly impossible.