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AI for Analyzing Your Cloud Asset Inventory
Unlock your cloud asset inventory with AI! Discover CloudQuery's new Model Context Protocol (MCP) server, enabling any AI agent to directly query your infrastructure data using natural language. Learn how to empower security, FinOps, and infrastructure teams with real-time dashboards, tables, and reports, eliminating manual exports and boosting autonomous decision-making.
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CloudQuery vs. Cloud Asset Inventory Tools
Drowning in multi-cloud complexity? Discover how CloudQuery leads the SQL-based asset inventory space, offering enterprise scalability and persistent storage. Compare it with Steampipe for real-time insights and native cloud tools for single-cloud simplicity, helping platform teams choose the right solution for comprehensive cloud visibility and compliance.
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How to Make Your Internal Developer Portal Actually Useful
Is your Internal Developer Portal (IDP) a "documentation graveyard"? Discover how fresh, accurate asset inventory transforms IDPs into dynamic platforms, boosting developer productivity by 55%, slashing onboarding time by 67%, and delivering over 224% ROI by accelerating development and ensuring governance.
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Say Hello to AWS Cost and Usage Reports Integration and Report in CloudQuery
CloudQuery announces its new AWS Cost and Usage Reports (CUR) integration—empowering engineering teams to analyze and optimize cloud spend directly from infrastructure data. Learn how to gain cost visibility, allocate budgets by tags or teams, and uncover hidden cloud expenses with powerful queries and dashboards.
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How Ridgeline Enhanced (And Saved Money) on Their Cloud Security with CloudQuery
Ridgeline, a cloud-native investment management platform, improved infrastructure visibility, automated compliance, and cut cloud costs by over 30% using CloudQuery. By integrating it into their CI/CD pipeline, they scaled to 300+ AWS accounts, expanded resource coverage, and reduced manual overhead—ensuring secure, efficient, and compliant cloud operations.
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The state of observability in 2025: a deep dive on our third annual Observability Survey
Dive into Grafana Labs' third annual Observability Survey for 2025! Uncover how observability practices are maturing, why traces are gaining traction, the enduring power of open source, the emerging role of AI, and how cost continues to drive tool selection across organizations of all sizes.
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GitOps vs. DevOps: Key Differences Explained
GitOps and DevOps are often seen as interchangeable, but they serve distinct purposes within the software delivery lifecycle. This article breaks down their differences, tools, workflows, and where they overlap. Learn how GitOps focuses on infrastructure automation using Git as the source of truth, while DevOps represents a broader cultural shift aimed at collaboration and continuous delivery. Discover how combining both approaches can streamline development, enforce consistency, and boost deployment reliability.
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The 3 Es of Diskless Kafka BYOC
Explore three ways to buy Kafka in the cloud—Multi-Tenant SaaS, Single-Tenant SaaS, and Bring Your Own Cloud (BYOC)—and discover why Diskless BYOC offers significant economic, enforcement, and enterprise discount advantages for organizations operating Kafka at scale, challenging traditional fully-managed solutions.
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Diskless Kafka is the Tide, and it’s Rising
Discover KIP-1150 Diskless Topics now live in Aiven Kafka BYOC, enabling Apache Kafka on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure to write directly to object storage. Learn how this innovation slashes costs by up to 80%, eliminates operational toil, and maintains 100% Apache Kafka compatibility, ensuring zero vendor lock-in and a single logical cluster for all streaming workloads.
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Is It Time to Migrate? A Practical Look at Kubernetes Ingress vs. Gateway API
Still battling Kubernetes Ingress complexities? Discover why it's time to migrate! This guide unpacks the limitations of traditional Ingress and reveals how the Kubernetes Gateway API, implemented by Calico Ingress Gateway with Envoy proxy, offers a standardized, role-aware, and feature-rich solution for secure, streamlined traffic management.
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The Cost of Doing Nothing: How Workflow Chaos Wastes 20+ Dev Hours a Month
Is workflow chaos secretly costing your dev team 20+ hours a month? Discover how inconsistent PRs, endless merge conflicts, and slow onboarding silently kill velocity, and learn practical fixes to standardize your workflows for peak productivity and happier developers.
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Docker Container Logs: How to View & Manage
Easy access to Docker container logs is essential for effective development and debugging. This guide explores how to view and manage Docker logs using the docker logs command, Docker Compose, and Docker Desktop. It also covers where logs are stored, how to clear them, and best practices for centralized logging, log rotation, and structured output. Whether you're just starting with Docker or optimizing a production setup, this article will help you tailor container observability to your needs.