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Azure Tagging In 2026: A Complete Guide to Organizing Resources, Costs, and Governance

Azure tags are like sticky notes for your cloud resources. They help you label and organize infrastructure in ways that make sense to your organization. Tags enable you to assign categories to resources, making it easy to group, monitor, track, and filter them across any environment. So, how do tags and tagging work in Azure?

Smarter Custom Metrics for Redgate Monitor: Additional Alert Text Query

This is a guest post from Nick Coombe. Redgate Monitor's built-in metrics cover the most common database pressure points out of the box. However, every estate has a few KPIs and metrics that are specific to the business, and users can create custom metrics to track those signals and receive an alert when they cross a threshold.

Cisco and Megaport: Redefining the Edge of Modern Networking

Explore four Cisco and Megaport Virtual Edge solutions that bring secure, high-performance networking closer to users and clouds. Enterprises have quickly outgrown the constraints of legacy WAN architectures. As cloud and SaaS dominate and users grow more distributed, rigid infrastructure models—complete with backhaul-heavy designs and unpredictable internet performance—no longer work.

Escalation policies for low-priority incidents

Teams put a lot of thought into how critical incidents are handled. Low-priority incidents usually don’t get the same attention. And without a proper escalation policy, they just land in a shared channel, waiting for someone to acknowledge. Setting up a clear policy for them is worth doing. Not because they need the same urgency as a critical incident, but because having a defined path for every incident makes the whole system more reliable.

Managing AI Models and Datasets with Harness Artifact Registry | AI/ML Artifact Management

Building AI applications often means juggling multiple models, scattered datasets, and version chaos across local systems. But what if you could bring it all together — securely and efficiently — in one place? In this walkthrough, Shibam Dhar, DevRel Engineer at Harness, demonstrates how Harness Artifact Registry makes it easy to manage and govern your AI/ML assets — from models and datasets to prompts and agents — with built-in support like Hugging Face and generic registry types.

Unmasking the Resolute Raccoon

You’ve almost certainly seen them… In the forest, rummaging through a dumpster, in poorly aging millennial memes. Raccoons are ubiquitous and endlessly entertaining creatures. YouTube and TikTok are full of videos documenting their clever antics and escapades. One such intrepid raccoon gained fame for making their way to the most unlikely places, from liquor stores to karate studios.

The story behind Konstruct: Lessons learned scaling GitOps

In 2024, Civo acquired Konstruct (formerly Kubefirst) to reinforce our commitment to simplifying cloud computing complexities. When this acquisition was made, it began a whole new chapter for the team behind Konstruct. Over the years, we assembled our team by working with a community of thousands of engineers in what can be a very complex cloud native environment. We were fortunate to join forces with Civo as they aligned with our cloud native and portable vision.

Native Nix Support in Artifactory: The Binary Cache for the Enterprise

The “works on my machine” era is officially over. Nix is changing the way we think about software by treating packages as functional, immutable values, ensuring that a build works exactly the same way every time, on every machine. But while Nix excels on a local laptop, scaling that level of reproducibility across a global enterprise has historically been a challenge.