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The rise in popularity of open-source RBDMs has encouraged many organizations to adopt PostgreSQL, but as a DBA or Developer, it can be challenging when exploring new database platforms, no matter how experienced you are. When looking at SQL Server, it has many similarities to PostgreSQL, but there are several big differences too.

Balancing high performance operations against the need to reduce total operating costs is a classical dilemma faced by both large and small organisations. This dilemma becomes particularly important when you choose the foundation of your IT infrastructure: the operating system. A recent case study by Tech Mahindra, the multinational IT services and consulting firm, details how their partnership with Canonical enabled them to shift the balance for a major Fortune 500 life insurance company.

Building, testing and deploying software is a time-consuming process that many organizations aim to minimize by automating repeatable work wherever possible. To do so, many organizations are utilizing a continuous integration, continuous delivery (CI/CD) philosophy in combination with cloud native tools like Kubernetes to develop and deploy software at scale.

Ensuring software availability is essential for any SaaS company—including Gremlin. To do that, our teams need to identify the reliability risks hiding in our systems. That’s why our development, platform, and SRE teams use Gremlin regularly to perform Chaos Engineering experiments, run reliability tests, and track the reliability of our systems against our standards. Along the way they’ve picked up a thing or two about how to find and fix reliability risks with Gremlin.

Learn the biggest obstacles with load test automation, and how existing user traffic holds the key to scaling eCommerce software safely, and fast.

As data centers become increasingly decentralized, managing them remotely is now a must-have skill. Data center professionals need to maintain uptime, increase efficiency, and boost productivity across all their global sites without leaving their desk. While this might have once seemed near-impossible, with the right tools and processes, remotely managing your data center can be even better than physically being there.

We're excited to announce the general availability of the new "Clone Service" feature on Qovery, which is built to augment the capabilities of our platform and to cater to our user needs more effectively. Qovery has always prided itself on being a user-centric platform, and this new feature continues to uphold that tradition.

Data has become a critical asset in today’s digital era, making its storage, management, and accessibility crucial to many organizations’ operations. Microsoft’s Azure provides a suite of cloud storage solutions designed to address these needs. Among the tools provided by Azure is AzCopy, a command-line utility designed to simplify data transfer to and from Azure Blob, File, and Table storage.