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Policy as Code Tools & Examples to Make Better Infrastructure Easier, Anywhere

You’re scaling your IT infrastructure so you can do more — deploying across clouds and data center, adding servers, coding like crazy. Great! But how do you keep it all from falling apart? Policy as code is an approach to managing IT that strategically leverages infrastructure as code (IaC) and compliance as code to manage consistent policies across complex IT environments. Sounds perfect, right?

Where AI automation actually earns its place in IT operations

The promise attached to AI in operations has outrun the evidence. The pitch, repeated across keynote stages and vendor decks, is that AI will run your operations: detect, decide, remediate, and close the loop while the on-call engineer sleeps. It is a tidy story. It is also not the one that holds up at three in the morning when a cascading failure is halfway through your fleet.

Best Cheap Car Insurance Companies in Tennessee for 2026

Tennessee has a reputation as one of the more affordable states for car insurance, and for most drivers, that holds up. Full coverage in the Volunteer State averages around $2,004 per year, well below the national average of $2,697, according to Bankrate. Minimum coverage runs even lower at around $513 annually. But here is the part that surprises people: individual quotes can vary by hundreds of dollars for the same driver, depending on which company you ask. If you are not comparing, you are almost certainly leaving money on the table.

Top Semgrep Alternatives

Application security has recently become one of the most important parts of software development. Today, there is an increasing number of threats that target code, dependencies, and cloud environments, so developers need tools that go way beyond basic static analysis. Semgrep is a popular tool for code scanning (SAST), but many teams are looking for other alternatives that provide broader security coverage, better automation capabilities, or just easier workflows.

Color-coded log monitoring for simplified log analysis

Modern production environments generate massive volumes of logs every day. As systems become more distributed and cloud-native, that volume only increases. The real challenge isn’t collecting logs—it’s identifying what matters fast enough to act using effective log visualization. Most log views fail at this point. Every entry looks the same, forcing engineers to scan them manually and interpret lines under pressure.

The Future of FinOps: Engineering, Applications & Cloud Cost Accountability

In this episode of the FinOps on Azure Podcast, Michael Stephenson is joined by Ben DeBow, Founder and CEO of Fortified, to discuss the next evolution of FinOps and why cloud cost management needs to move beyond dashboards, reporting, and allocation. Ben shares insights from years of helping enterprises optimize cloud spend and explains why the biggest savings opportunities are often hidden inside applications, workloads, and engineering decisions—not infrastructure.

Top Considerations When Evaluating DCIM Vendors

Choosing a Data Center Infrastructure Management (DCIM) platform is one of the more consequential decisions a data center team will make. Get it right, and you gain an accurate digital twin of your physical infrastructure, a single source of truth across teams, improved operational visibility, and a platform for planning, reporting, and automation. Get it wrong, and you risk a failed deployment, a platform that doesn't fit your needs, or a shelfware investment that's hard to justify renewing.

Running the OpenTelemetry Collector as a Lambda

The OpenTelemetry Collector is usually deployed as a long-running process: a sidecar, a DaemonSet, an EC2 instance, a docker container on my computer. It sits there listening for telemetry. That's fine when I want to send telemetry all day, but not when telemetry is rare. Like right now, when I have an agent defined on AgentCore, and it runs a few times a week maybe. Or my website that hardly sees any traffic. Can I run the OpenTelemetry Collector as a Lambda function?