As 2024 peeks into 2025, cloud-driven businesses are poised for yet another year of record cloud spending. After exceeding $675B this year, cloud spenders are expected to shell out more than $820B in 2025 (Gartner). But as any good unit economist knows, it’s not just that cloud costs are growing, it’s that they’re growing inefficiently — taking too big a bite out of companies’ profits.

Two of the most popular guides we’ve written are the GitOps promotion guide and the ApplicationSet guide. Used together, they explain an end-to-end solution for organizing your GitOps applications and promoting them between different environments, while keeping things DRY by using application sets. Both of these guides use Kustomize. We offered some hints for Helm users, but this is a dedicated guide for Helm applications.

Incident management plays a critical role in ensuring service reliability, customer satisfaction, and overall business success. Effective incident response is not a static process but one that benefits from constant refinement and optimization. As organizations grow and evolve, so must their approach to handling incidents.

The.NET ecosystem has come a long way, but the latest.NET Framework trends for 2025 prove there’s still much to explore and develop. Since its release in 2002, every newer version has brought some sort of upgrade, like the Parallel Task Library in.NET 4.0 and the shift to.NET Core in 2016. The introduction of later.NET versions unified these advancements to make development faster and more flexible. So, what does 2025 hold?

Another release is coming your way! This time we have rolled out an update for our collection of high-performance Devart Python Connectors, which help access a variety of database servers and cloud services from Python applications and facilitate CRUD operations with data.

When you need to perform certain actions with each of the elements from an array that you don’t want to edit in any way, the SSIS forech loop container, a control flow task, comes in handy. Using it, you can easily iterate through items defined in a collection and automate processing them one by one. Eventually, this approach helps cut the time usually spent on manually handling each item from the dataset.

Developer Experience (DevEx) is a general term that encompasses all of the interactions a developer has with their work environment. The tools that a developer uses, the processes they employ, and even the organizational culture, all play a role in establishing a great Developer Experience – or, unfortunately, a bad one.

Scotland has a strong historical record in seeking out and supporting data centre investment. The Green Datacentres and Digital Connectivity: Vision and Action plan is already four years old. However, time has not dampened enthusiasm. The renewed interest in data centre investment that has followed encouraging comments from Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, has spread across the UK.

After an incredible week at IDPCon, we're excited to share one of the major announcements we unveiled during the event: the General Availability (GA) of Cortex Workflows with advanced Role-Based Access Controls (RBAC). One of the most highly requested features for Cortex Workflows, advanced RBAC gives you complete control over who can view, edit, and run workflows, supporting enterprises that deal with sensitive operations.

Remember when IT was mostly about managing a few on-premise servers and ensuring email worked? Those days are long gone. Today’s IT landscape is an intricate web of cloud services, legacy systems, automation, security protocols, and more. It’s a challenge to navigate, and as a result, IT operations have become increasingly complex. The more intricate your operation becomes, the more you realize that automation isn’t a luxury anymore—it’s a necessity.