Discover how fintech leader Rapyd partnered with PerfectScale to close observability gaps in their Kubernetes environment, achieving a projected 35-40% reduction in K8s costs while simultaneously improving performance and proactively resolving critical issues across their extensive AWS EKS infrastructure.

Discover how cybersecurity leader Cynet, with a focus on simplicity, leveraged PerfectScale to gain unprecedented visibility into pod costs, streamline Kubernetes cost optimization, and proactively identify and resolve resiliency issues across their multi-cluster AWS EKS environment, ensuring a stable and cost-effective solution for their customers.

Discover how Trax, a leader in retail technology, leveraged PerfectScale to overcome manual Kubernetes optimization roadblocks, achieving an astounding 75% cost reduction in one cluster (saving over 6-figures annually) and significantly improving their "cost per processing" metric by gaining granular visibility and actionable insights across their multi-cloud, multi-cluster AWS EKS environment.

Explore the six evolving phases of FinOps, from the initial "Observational" data collection to "Automated" and the future of "Integrated FinOps," revealing how organizations learn to manage cloud spend and optimize infrastructure efficiently over time.

Unpack the concept of cost seasonality in Kubernetes, explore the factors that drive its fluctuations, and discover effective strategies—including right-sizing, autoscaling optimization, and leveraging tools like PerfectScale—to manage and predict your cloud spend while maintaining performance.

Policy as Code (PaC) is transforming platform engineering by embedding security, compliance, and governance directly into developer workflows. It empowers developers with faster feedback, enables secure self-service, ensures consistent environments, and automates policy enforcement—boosting efficiency and scalability. By shifting policy management to code, teams gain transparency, reduce errors, and streamline compliance, paving the way for more secure, scalable, and developer-friendly platforms. The future of internal developer platforms is Policy as Code.

Kyverno is quickly becoming the preferred choice for Kubernetes policy management, offering a Kubernetes-native, YAML-based alternative to OPA/Gatekeeper. With features like intuitive policy writing, built-in resource generation, mutation, policy exceptions, and retroactive enforcement, Kyverno simplifies governance and security in Kubernetes environments. Learn why DevOps and platform teams are making the switch.

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.

Many teams rely on “skeleton pipelines” that get code to production but haven’t been improved in months—or ever. This article urges software teams to treat their delivery pipelines as critical, evolving parts of their product. It highlights the importance of ownership, accountability, and continuous improvement in the software delivery process to avoid bottlenecks, reduce deployment pain, and enable faster, more reliable releases.

At Octopus, we've distilled years of deployment experience into the 10 Pillars of Pragmatic Deployments — a flexible, experience-driven framework to help teams build reliable, repeatable, and user-friendly software deployments. From understanding repeatable and verifiable deployments to achieving seamless cutovers with smart strategies like rolling updates and canary deployments, this guide walks you through modern deployment best practices that work in the real world — not just in theory.

Uncover the pivotal role of PostgreSQL's extensions ecosystem, its historical context, and why it remains indispensable for modern data needs, including AI and analytics. Dive into key extensions like TimescaleDB, PostGIS, and pgvector, and learn how a managed service, like Aiven, mitigates risks and enhances reliability.

Announcing KIP-1150 Diskless Topics in Aiven BYOC— KIP-1150 now allows Apache Kafka on AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure write straight to object storage, cut cross-AZ traffic, disks and TCO by up to 80%.