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Invisible Automation: The Best Tools Are The Ones You Forget About

I recently had a conversation with one of our customers at AWS re:Invent that made me rethink the true value of automation. This customer told me, “You’ve automated so much for us that we almost forget about Qovery. Nobody even asks how to do things anymore.” That statement stuck with me.

HPC Configuration: How Configuration Management Can Enhance AI Workload Efficiency

High-performance computing (HPC) configuration has become paramount for AI workloads. Companies investing in AI workloads often find themselves with predictable problems: Lots of nodes that are hard to integrate and harder to manage together, under-utilized resources, deployment struggles, inconsistent configurations, and drift.

The flight plan that brought UK airspace to its knees

On August 28th, 2023—right in the middle of a UK public holiday—an issue with the UK’s air traffic control systems caused chaos across the country. The culprit? An entirely valid flight plan that hit an edge case in the processing software, partly because it contained a pair of duplicate airport codes.

Track configuration changes across multi-cloud environments in the Resource Catalog

Organizations often struggle to maintain visibility and control over their distributed cloud infrastructure, where changes in a single resource can have cascading effects throughout the system and potentially cause disruptions. In these environments, infrastructure changes that lead to incidents are often hard to troubleshoot—especially when teams are using disparate tools with siloed data—leading to longer resolution times, more downtime, and negative business outcomes.

Here Come dbForge Tools for PostgreSQL 3.2: Extended Connectivity, Enhanced Code Completion, Smart Data Generators, and More

We’ve got another big update! This time it’s all about PostgreSQL; the entire product line has been polished and augmented to make your experience with PostgreSQL fuller in every way—this includes new data sources, improved suggestions, a slew of new smart data generators, and quite a few other tricks to make your daily work easy as ever. Without further ado, let’s check everything feature by feature!

Meet Our New Python Connectors for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

Here comes the long-awaited release of three new Python Connectors for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Excel Online, and Google Sheets. These Connectors are designed to simplify data integration and maximize productivity for developers working with these platforms. From now on, it will be extremely easy to connect Python applications directly to Dynamics 365 Business Central, Excel Online, and Google Sheets, enabling accurate create, read, update, and delete operations on stored data.

Now in private beta: Gremlin Service Mesh Extension

Service meshes like Istio have become an essential way to securely and reliably distribute network traffic, especially with ephemeral, service-based architectures such as Kubernetes. However, their constantly shifting nature can interfere with targeting specific services for resilience tests. Infrastructure-based testing is designed to target specific IP addresses, allowing precision testing of applications, VMs, and nodes.

The Future of Kubernetes Observability

The Kubernetes ecosystem is undergoing a significant transformation, and the trends emerging at KubeCon highlight just how dynamic this space has become. Traditional Application Performance Monitoring (APM) providers are rapidly shifting focus to Kubernetes Performance Monitoring (KPM), reflecting the growing need for specialized observability in increasingly complex environments.