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How to find Idle Azure Resources or Unused Azure Resources?

The focus of this video is to help users identify idle resources within Azure deployments. Azure MVP Michael Stephenson (aka Mike) explains the importance of managing these idle resources, as they can accumulate over time and lead to unnecessary costs without providing any business value. Mike shows how users can utilize the cost analyzer module to identify idle networking resources such as virtual networks (vnets), IP addresses, and subnets. He explains the process of filtering and identifying idle resources within the Azure deployment, using a tree view to model the organization's cost data.

Monitor your CI/CD modernizations with Datadog CI Pipeline Visibility

As your organization adopts modern technologies and scales its workloads, it’s critical that your CI/CD environment follows suit to maintain smooth development and testing workflows. Adopting modern CI/CD tools (e.g., pipeline runners and testing frameworks) and best practices can increase the agility and resilience of your CI/CD environment as well as enable your teams to configure new jobs, stages, and tests to meet changing business requirements.

Quality Engineering: Mastering quality control & assurance

We know speed to market matters—now more than ever. Bill Gates said in the nineties that “if you don’t meet customer demand quickly enough, without sacrificing quality, someone else will.” But software quality also matters, affecting everything from customer loyalty to developer experience. Poor quality causes immediate issues like bugs and crashes, as well as building technical debt and making updates needlessly hard.

Powering Progress: IT Services in the Nation's Capital

In the bustling heart of the nation's capital, Washington, D.C., a dynamic ecosystem of IT services thrives, catering to the diverse needs of businesses, government agencies, and organizations. From essential infrastructure support to cutting-edge digital solutions, D.C. offers a comprehensive array of IT services to drive innovation and facilitate success.

How To Resolve "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" Git Error

When working on a shared Git repository, you may sometimes see the "fatal: Not possible to fast-forward, aborting" error. This happens when your local branch and the remote branch have split, meaning the remote branch has new commits that are not in your local branch. In this article, we'll look at the steps to fix this error and talk about some good habits to prevent it in the future.

Maximizing ROI: The Value of an Incident Response Platform Measured in Metrics

Organizations are constantly challenged by the threat of IT incidents, cyberattacks and breaches. Incidents such as data breaches, malware infections, and system outages can have devastating consequences for businesses, including financial losses, reputational damage, and legal liabilities. In response to these threats, many organizations are turning to incident response platforms to streamline their incident management processes and enhance their cybersecurity posture.

New in Delphi DAC: Support for RAD Studio 12, Patch 1, Cloud Providers Metadata, and More

We are glad to announce the latest update of Devart’s Delphi Data Access Components product line. This update implements support for the newest version of Embarcadero RAD Studio 12 Athens. RAD Studio 12, Patch 1 brings improved VCL and FireMonkey libraries, Split Editor Views, modernized C++ compilers and toolchain, Android API level 34, support for 4K+ screens, and now targets Windows 11.

New in Delphi DAC: Support for RAD Studio 12, Release 1, Cloud Providers Metadata, and More

We are glad to announce the latest update of Devart’s Delphi Data Access Components product line. This update implements support for the newest version of Embarcadero RAD Studio 12 Athens. RAD Studio 12, Release 1 brings improved VCL and FireMonkey libraries, Split Editor Views, modernized C++ compilers and toolchain, Android API level 34, support for 4K+ screens, and now targets Windows 11. There are many more changes, don’t forget to check them all out!

How to Migrate from Oracle to SQL Server

Before we discuss how to migrate from Oracle to SQL Server, let us understand what data migration is and when it may be used. This process involves exporting data from the source location, modifying if needed, and then transferring it to a destination location. In other words, data migration is moving data between database objects or servers.