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What are AI tokens? The unit your AI bill is written in

Aug 7, 2026 By Lyne Carolyne In CloudZero
AI tokens are the small chunks of text, roughly four characters or three quarters of a word each, that language models read and generate. Every prompt and every response is measured in tokens, and AI providers bill per million of them. That makes the token the base unit of AI spend: 1,000 tokens is about 750 words, and every AI feature you ship is a token meter running.
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What is AI ROI? Definition and why it matters

Aug 7, 2026 By Doug Bonderud In CloudZero
In 2025, 85% of organizations increased AI investment, and 91% plan to do the same this year, according to Deloitte. Despite continued spending, however, ROI lags behind, with just 6% seeing payback within one year. While AI use cases tend to have a longer payback period, often in the 2-4 year range, companies can’t afford to keep spending money without some measure of its practical impact both immediately and over time.
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Shipped: Get anywhere in CloudZero with a keystroke

Aug 7, 2026 By Kevin Lamb In CloudZero
You know exactly where you want to go in CloudZero. Getting there sometimes takes a moment as you click into the nav, open a menu, scroll a dropdown, find the thing, click again. Every trip back to a familiar spot can take a few steps. Shortcuts remove that friction. Press command+K on Mac or ctrl-K on Windows anywhere in CloudZero, type where you want to go, and hit Enter. That means there’s no clicking through the nav and no scrolling to find what you already know the name of.
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Introducing the Flyway MCP Server: governed database change, now available to your AI coding assistant

Aug 7, 2026 By Ryan Gee In Redgate
AI coding assistants have changed how fast application code gets written. Copilot, Cursor, Claude Code, and agentic tools built on top of them can generate a working feature in minutes. But none of them know your database's history. They don't know that a migration already renamed that column last sprint, that a policy forbids unqualified DELETE statements, or that the target environment has drifted from what your migrations say it should look like.
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DORA in Practice: What Two Roundtables with Technical Leaders Revealed

Aug 7, 2026 By Fiona Black In Redgate
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) has applied to financial organizations across the EU since January 2025 and is designed to strengthen their ability to withstand operational disruption. What the roundtables revealed was that although these financial organizations had completed extensive DORA planning exercises, this groundwork was not reliably translating into auditable operational control.
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Alloy Software

Best Help Desk Software in 2026: Tested, Ranked & Compared

Aug 7, 2026 By Alex Rozenplenter In Alloy Software
We evaluated the 10 best help desk software platforms of 2026 on features, pricing, deployment, and real-world fit, from unified IT asset-and-service tools to free and customer-facing options. Alloy Navigator leads for teams that need assets and the service desk in one place. The right pick depends on your users, compliance needs, and true budget, not the longest feature list. All prices below were verified in July 2026 and are list prices; add-ons and renewals often raise the real total.
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Paste a Slack Bug Report into an AI SRE Agent: AURA Finds the Cause

Aug 7, 2026 By Mezmo In Mezmo
A coworker says checkout is broken and nothing else. That is the whole prompt. AURA reads the live logs and comes back with the payment service. Normally a message like this is the start of guessing at a service and opening dashboards until something looks wrong. Here it is the entire input: no service named, no error string, no time range.
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Kernel-Level Visibility Without Instrumentation: What eBPF Changes for Container Security

Kernel-Level Visibility Without Instrumentation: What eBPF Changes for Container Security

Aug 7, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
Containers have changed how applications are built and deployed, but they have also made security visibility more difficult. Workloads are short-lived, services communicate constantly, and application behavior is distributed across containers, nodes, APIs, processes, and open-source dependencies. This is why many security teams are pairing eBPF with application-level runtime security. eBPF observes activity from the Linux kernel without requiring teams to modify every application, while runtime application security explains which code caused that activity.
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