Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

In the telecom industry, leaders are under pressure to deliver more—more capacity, more agility, more reliability—while managing rising complexity with fewer resources. The network is the circulatory system of the modern telco, yet it’s still often operated like a patchwork of manual roads, each requiring constant human intervention. This model worked when traffic was predictable and growth was linear.

How we built an AI agent that implements Jira tickets, creates merge requests, and tracks them on its own, and our journey to get to that point.

We’re excited to announce that Speedscale’s proxymock is now available as an OpenClaw skill on ClawHub, bringing powerful API traffic replay capabilities directly into your Claude workflows.

Previously I have written about how useful public cloud storage can be when starting a new project without knowing how much data you will need to store. However, as datasets grow over time, the costs of public cloud storage can become overwhelming. This is where an on premise, or co-located, self-hosted storage system becomes advantageous: it provides the greatest range of benefits, including cost, performance, security, and data sovereignty.

How database indexes work, when to use B-tree vs hash indexes, clustered vs non-clustered indexes, and how to tell if your indexes are actually helping.

When a database security incident happens, everyone turns to the security team. We look for a simple root cause analysis, and then we add a control, tighten a policy, and maybe even buy a silver bullet tool. We feel progress! But the incident didn’t start there. It started years earlier, when the organization made a series of perfectly reasonable decisions that quietly expanded the surface area and weakened the consistency of control.

This month’s highlights include smarter dependency handling in Flyway Desktop, and a look at how we’re starting the year strong for Oracle users. Plus: last call to share your feedback in our Flyway user survey (the prize draw closes soon!).