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Azure Savings Plans and Reservations: Unlocking Cloud Cost Savings

FinOps Certified practitioner Mike Stephenson talks with Obinna Nwokolo from Microsoft's Azure team about how businesses can save money using Azure's pricing options. They explain two main ways to save: Azure savings plans, which let customers commit to a certain spending level for flexibility and reservations, where customers reserve specific resources for a set time.

How Do the Templates in SQL Prompt Enable Team Collaboration - Frank Geisler

Frank Geisler, CEO of GDS Business Intelligence GmbH, explains how the templates in SQL prompt enable team collaboration. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..

ASP.NET Core Blazor Best Practices - Architecture and Performance Optimization

Adopting Blazor best practices is the only way to get your ASP.NET Core applications on the right track. Rather than juggling between C# for the backend logics and JavaScript for the frontend interactions, you can use Blazor to build interactive web apps using only C#. It makes your development process easier, reduces context switching, and lets you create a more cohesive codebase.

How to Achieve SOC-2 Compliance on AWS

SOC-2 is a critical framework that ensures the security, availability, integrity, confidentiality, and privacy of systems and data. It is particularly important for organizations handling sensitive customer information. If you are using any cloud vendor, especially AWS, and aiming for SOC-2 certification then this article is for you. We will provide insights into how AWS supports SOC-2 compliance, and also go through a comprehensive roadmap and practical strategies for meeting these essential standards.

Our Plans for Open Source Puppet in 2025

In early 2025, Puppet will begin to ship any new binaries and packages developed by our team to a private, hardened, and controlled location. Our intention with this change is not to limit community access to Puppet source code, but to address the growing risk of vulnerabilities across all software applications today while continuing to provide the security, support, and stability our customers deserve.

Introducing AI-Enhanced Data Generation to Redgate Test Data Manager

We’re excited to reveal our latest effort towards simplifying and accelerating the test data management process: AI Synthetic Data Generation, part of Redgate Test Data Manager. Officially introduced in a session at the recent PASS Data Community Summit, the capability uses machine learning to rapidly generate realistic yet entirely synthetic data – all while maintaining data integrity and with data privacy built-in as priority.

Coffee chat with Aaron Bertrand

On this episode of Simple Talks, Louis hangs out with Aaron Bertrand and talks hockey, curling, football, hybrid cars and even some technology. One of the big (non-sports) themes of the episode is that Aaron is a problem-solver and is interested in how issues can be overcome with technology - even if his focus now and in the conceivable future is being a top-level expert with some of the aspects of SQL Server.

Policy Management - The Key to Unlocking a Secure Software Supply Chain

During this pre-KubeCon online event, we will tackle the big questions that should be at the center of conversation at this year's event. If over 90% of software deployed is open-source; It's time for engineering leaders to make their IDP tooling bets. KubeCon is the opportunity to answer these big questions and share ideas. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn from the leading minds in the software supply chain management about the most pressing questions in the industry today ahead of the only event that matters.