Beyond Backups: Architecture That Doesn't Blink
During the October 20th AWS outage, not one Control Plane customer went down. Here’s the architecture that made that possible, and how to assess your own.
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A Technical Guide to Controls Engineering
The modern world runs on mission-critical software. It moves our money, drives our cars, diagnoses our illnesses, and fundamentally improves our lives. But, organizations building this critical software face a paradox: they need to move fast to stay competitive, but they also need rigorous governance to manage risk. This has created a lot of tension in regulated industries.
Install and Activate dotConnect in Visual Studio & Any IDE
Learn how to install and activate dotConnect products step by step. In this video, we show all available installation options—including NuGet Package Manager, command-line installation in any IDE, and the Windows installer for full Visual Studio integration. You’ll also see how to activate dotConnect using a license key, including how to get a free 30-day trial key from the Devart Customer Portal. This guide helps you.
Scaling Infrastructure Teams: The Increasing Need for Rust Engineers
The Infrastructure teams have had to continuously improve current systems to make them faster, safer, and more reliable. With the growth of cloud services, the complexity of applications, and the demand for low-latency processing, engineering teams still need the best tools and languages to build these systems. The traditional languages that have been used for decades to power system-level development, i.e., C, C++, and Java, have long been the standard. But as software system complexity becomes unsustainable, the factors that limit safety, memory management, and concurrency are becoming increasingly obvious.
Oracle JDK to OpenJDK: A Guide to Reliable Migration Testing
One of the most common infrastructure changes Java developers and operators are dealing with today is the migration from Oracle Java to OpenJDK. The reason is the licensing changes made by Oracle and the maturity of the OpenJDK distributions. The migration process is quite simple: replace the JDK, recompile the code, and redeploy the application. However, the differences between the two runtimes can lead to unexpected issues that are not caught by unit tests.
Speedscale Named in Gartner Market Guide for API Testing
In the highly dynamic environment of modern engineering, an appropriate strategy for API quality is more important than ever. We are pleased to announce that Speedscale has been named in the latest “Market Guide for API and MCP Testing Tools” report from Gartner. As software development is shifting towards complex distributed architectures, integrating Model Context Protocol (MCP) for AI-based workflows, the need for realistic testing has never been higher.
Redgate Flyway, Oracle, and the Case of the Lowercase Schema
If you’ve spent any time working with Oracle databases, you’ve probably internalized a few expectations so deeply that you don’t even think about them anymore. One of the biggest is this: Database users, tables, views, and metadata are in UPPERCASE. So, when you query the database directly, no matter if using SQL*Plus, SQLcl,SQL Developer, or any other tool, you’re going to format your query in a common way.
Why Security and Stability Matter in Infrastructure Management
In the high-stakes world of modern infrastructure management, "move fast but break things" is not a viable strategy. As organizations scale their digital footprints, the competing demands of velocity and vulnerability have created a new operational reality. Today, the integrity of your infrastructure is synonymous with the integrity of your business. For system administrators and DevOps engineers, the landscape has shifted. It is not enough to simply provision servers and deploy applications.
4 on-call burnout signs (and how to address them)
Being on-call can sometimes feel overwhelming. If that feeling goes unnoticed for too long, it often translates into burnout. And early burnout signs usually show up in ways, like how people respond to incidents or how they feel about the schedule. This guide walks through four such signs that can be useful to watch for before on-call burnout sets in.
The foundations of software: open source libraries and their maintainers
Open source libraries are repositories of code that developers can use and, depending on the license, contribute to, modify, and redistribute. Open source libraries are usually developed on a platform like GitHub, and distributed using package registries like PyPI for Python and npm for JavaScript. These repositories contain pre-written, re-usable code that developers use to add elements or features within their software projects.