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We’re excited to announce dotConnect 2025.1, a major update that brings full support for the newest versions of.NET and Visual Studio. This release boosts performance with new batch update capabilities, adds built-in OAuth for easier cloud integration, and streamlines the product lineup by removing outdated technologies so developers can rely on a more modern, focused data access stack.

This fall and winter have had their share of major outages (including AWS, Azure, and Cloudflare), and December was no exception. On December 5, 2025, Cloudflare suffered a 25-minute outage that served responses with HTTP 500 errors to about 28% of HTTP traffic served by Cloudflare. Since Cloudflare handles an average of 81 million HTTP requests per second, this represents a substantial chunk of internet traffic, including LinkedIn, Zoom, and Downdetector.

“Every engineering decision is a cost decision,” notes Ben Johnson, co-founder and CTO of Obsidian Security. That’s the reality of building modern SaaS products in the cloud. But as Ben points out, the answer isn’t to make engineers think long and hard about every dollar they spend. “You don’t want your team hesitating to solve risky technical problems because a choice might add $100 to the bill.

This blog post is based on a product presentation by Antonis Kalipetis, Staff Engineer at SymfonyCon 2023, about Upsun's experience with Nix. We utilized ChatGPT for transcription and to enhance the grammar and syntax. Django deployments have evolved since the framework's early days.

The speed at which you can go from making a change in your code, to understanding if it actually works, has long been a popular topic of discussion (and often, humour) for engineers. This remains true in a world with AI. Developer experience isn't just important for humans anymore. Those agents we're all using hundreds of times a day? Feedback cycles matter just as much for them, if not more.

Guided Shadow Configuration removes the setup overhead of shadow databases in Flyway Desktop, allowing teams to adopt migrations-based workflows quickly and safely with minimal configuration. A Shadow Database is a disposable, ‘sandbox’ database that Flyway uses to generate and verify migration scripts.