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elastic

Elastic's move to free on-demand training

Dec 9, 2025 By Nick Mezhir In Elastic
Students can now learn what they need within the Elastic stack anytime. The Elastic Training team has shifted its on-demand training strategy from paid to free! Yes, you heard that right — complimentary on-demand training is now readily available to everyone. The Elastic Training team is continuously developing and releasing bite-sized training modules designed to align with Elastic solutions and highlight key features.
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icinga

Monitor One Icinga 2 Cluster From Another

Dec 9, 2025 By Alvar Penning In Icinga
Icinga is designed to be a highly dynamic monitoring software that can monitor your setup, regardless of its architecture. While most setups are hierarchical and fit well into the master, satellites, and agents scheme with different zones, it is sometimes impractical or impossible to create one large Icinga 2 cluster. Imagine that you are responsible for only some hosts within another organization.
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cloudzero

Your Cloud Economics Pulse For December 2025

Dec 9, 2025 By Keith MacKenzie In CloudZero
Welcome to December’s edition of CloudZero’s Cloud Economics Pulse — your monthly read on how cloud spend is shifting across providers, services, and AI workloads. No surprises here — November continued the quiet reshaping trend we’ve seen all year. Compute softened, data layers grew, and AI/ML hit its highest share yet. AWS extended its lead, Azure and GCP nudged upward, and the emerging “AI layer” of providers continued to take shape.
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cloudzero

Marginal Cost for Engineers: 10 Architecture Decisions That Secretly Inflate Your Costs

Dec 9, 2025 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
A few months back, a backend team at a fast-growing SaaS company shipped what seemed like a harmless feature. Just a simple request validation layer. No new service. No major dependencies. No architectural shock. Yet two months later, their cloud costs had climbed 38% without any significant increase in traffic, storage, or compute load. What they’d missed was that the validation layer triggered a fan-out pattern.
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puppet

Outdated Python Could Be Costing You More Than You Think

Dec 9, 2025 By Puppet In Puppet
Python is deeply embedded in modern infrastructure, but many organizations continue to run outdated Python across critical systems. Sticking with older runtimes may seem harmless, but it quickly piles up technical debt as teams spend more time maintaining fragile code and applying workarounds. Over time, that debt translates into a high financial drain.
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datadog

Keep service ownership up to date with Datadog Teams' GitHub integration

Dec 9, 2025 By Roxanne Moslehi In Datadog
Engineering organizations depend on clear team ownership to maintain reliable services and move quickly. But as codebases expand and teams shift, answering basic questions—Who owns this service? Who should be paged in an incident? Are teams meeting operational standards?—becomes harder.
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dotcom-monitor

Web API Sample Endpoints to Practice Monitoring & Testing

Dec 9, 2025 By Dotcom-Monitor In Dotcom-Monitor
APIs rarely fail in isolation. They fail under load, during token refresh, when a dependent service slows down, or when a multi-step workflow breaks halfway through. And yet most engineers still test and monitor APIs using mock endpoints that behave nothing like the real thing.
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circleci

Tracking Azure SQL changes with Azure Functions and CI/CD automation

Dec 9, 2025 By Terrence Aluda In CircleCI
Imagine being able to automatically detect when a high-value order is placed, then log it and notify your sales team – without manually accessing your app code. Azure SQL Trigger Functions make this possible. By automating the response to database changes as they happen, you can streamline operations, sync data, and power workflows in near real-time. Azure SQL Triggers, especially when combined with serverless functions, offers a powerful, low-maintenance way to respond to real-time data changes.
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Business Ideas For Burnt-Out Healthcare Professionals

Business Ideas For Burnt-Out Healthcare Professionals

Dec 9, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
If you're a burnt-out healthcare professional, you've probably tinkered and toyed with the idea of setting up your own business. Instead of doing the work yourself, you get other people to do it for you. But how are you supposed to do this? What businesses should you be getting into? That's the topic of this post. We look at some business ideas you can follow.
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Robot Pool Cleaner: What Are the Disadvantages of Robotic Pool Cleaners?

Robot Pool Cleaner: What Are the Disadvantages of Robotic Pool Cleaners?

Dec 9, 2025 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
A robot pool cleaner has become one of the most popular tools for modern pool care, offering convenience and advanced automation. But while a pool robotic pool cleaner can simplify weekly maintenance, it's important to understand the potential drawbacks before investing. Many pool owners wonder how these devices compare to a traditional pool vacuum, a skimmer, or even a vacuum cleaner for pool surfaces when dealing with issues like algae, debris, or wall cleaning. Below, we break down the main disadvantages so you can make an informed decision.
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