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We’ve released some improvements to our Azure status integration. StatusGator can now read your Azure Resource Health events via a service principal. Previously the only supported authentication mechanism was OAuth. Both pull the same data and produce the same alerts – the difference is who the connection belongs to, and what happens to it over time.

As a product manager at Upsun with a computer engineering background, Kateryna Dvornichenko had spent months researching competing tools in the agentic development space, running tests, comparing features, and building a picture of where the market was heading. She realized the tools were impressive, but something kept standing out. "Collaboration was not the strong point of any of them," she says. "Everyone stays on their own machine with their own setup.".

Repo rightsizing is a single-pass audit of every real model call in a codebase you already shipped: SDK invocations, sub-agent dispatch sites, and agent frontmatter pins. Each call site is scored on the job it actually does, and the result commits as one blueprint file you can diff next quarter. It replaces one-skill-at-a-time reviews, which miss files where a single model key covers two different jobs.

AI usage tracking means measuring who and what consumes AI across your company, by team, feature, and model, then converting the usage into spend and cost per unit of work. Provider consoles stop at totals per API key. Tracking puts names on those totals: which team, which product, which model, and whether any of it was worth the money. In May 2026, CNBC reported that “almost every Fortune 500 is tracking overall AI usage,” quoting ModelOp CTO Jim Olsen. The same reporting carried his warning.

S3 lifecycle rules move data to Standard-IA or Glacier to cut storage cost. CloudZero now flags the buckets where that move backfires: an early delete fee is charged when an object leaves its tier before the tier’s minimum storage duration. The cause isn’t always a misconfigured lifecycle rule. A manual delete, an overwrite, or an object written straight into the tier by a replication or backup job produce the identical charge.

There’s a very specific kind of frustration that comes from waiting several minutes for a video to encode, dragging it into a message, and getting hit with a “file too large” error. Then you’re blindly trying to shave off a few more megabytes by re-encoding, maybe at a lower resolution or a smaller bitrate, hoping you won’t have to do it more than one or two more times. Here’s how I used Sentry’s Application Metrics to make a more accurate video size estimator.

CUPED (Controlled-experiment Using Pre-Experiment Data) is a powerful tool that can reduce metric variance and help teams obtain precise experiment results with less data. However, the difference between an experiment’s CUPED-adjusted lift and raw lift can be difficult to explain, especially when an experiment uses many pre-exposure metrics and subject properties. The CUPED adjustments visualization in Datadog Experiments breaks the difference into a sequence of specific adjustments.

Let’s say your team shipped a support agent last quarter. The launch demo went well, stakeholders were pleased, and everyone moved on. A few months later, things start to look off. Summaries of long conversations are truncated, and monitors show latency spikes on tool calls to the billing API. Your team’s first instinct is to ship fixes such as tweaking prompts or upgrading the model.