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Databricks is a critical part of many organizations’ tech stacks, facilitating analytics, machine learning, and other leading-edge data engineering tasks. But when a service like Databricks becomes essential, it also tends to become a cost black hole, leading engineering teams to a quandary: How can you keep Databricks costs in check without hurting application performance? At CloudZero, we give organizations unparalleled visibility into their Databricks costs.

Exploitation of vulnerabilities increased 180% year over year from 2023 to 2024, which means that quickly and effectively securing endpoints – always a priority – will only continue to escalate. Patching these vulnerabilities promptly, but without sacrificing stability, can present operational challenges. One way to achieve this: ring deployment — a technique that progressively scales rollouts to user groups.

Java applications run on top of the JVM — a powerful but complex runtime environment that re-implements many OS features. It has its own memory management, garbage collector, and dynamic code compiler (JIT). While these features help with performance and portability, they often make troubleshooting a real challenge. At Coroot, we recently improved our support for continuous profiling in JVM-based applications.

Prometheus is a widely adopted open-source monitoring and alerting toolkit, popular among DevOps and SRE teams for its robust metrics collection and powerful query language (PromQL). It is fast, reliable, and purpose-built for modern, cloud-native environments. However, Prometheus may not suit all teams or projects. In 2025, several alternatives offer different strengths that might better match your specific monitoring needs.

Over the last few years, Google Cloud has grown at the fastest rate of any cloud service provider today. From 2020 to 2021, Google Cloud’s IaaS offering, GCP, grew 64%, followed by Microsoft Azure (51%) and Alibaba Cloud (42%), according to Gartner. Yet Google Cloud isn’t flawless. Here’s what we mean and some of the top Google Cloud alternatives you’ll want to consider today.

As businesses increasingly transition to cloud-based services, the demand for data center resources has surged, leading to higher electricity consumption. Currently, data centers contribute to about 3% of global carbon emissions and account for roughly 1-1.5% of global electricity demand. As a result, the need for sustainable solutions in cloud computing has never been more urgent.