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VictoriaMetrics

The Year-2 Price Cliff: What Your Observability Stack Really Costs Over 3 Years

Oct 5, 2026 By MS Michelle Sebek In VictoriaMetrics
I’m not the one whose phone lights up at 3 a.m. when production breaks. But I’ve spent years working alongside the engineers who are, and I’ve noticed that observability migrations happen for two reasons. Either engineering needed one, or, far more often, a quote landed that looked too good to refuse. The engineers rarely regret the first kind. The second kind they tell me about in year two, usually with a renewal notice in hand.
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devart

Devart Data Access Components add support for the latest IDEs and database platforms

Sep 30, 2026 By DAC Team In Devart
The latest update to Devart Data Access Components is here, bringing support for RAD Studio 13 Florence Release 2, Lazarus 4.8, Microsoft SQL Server 2025, MySQL 9.7.x, and NexusDB 4.75.20. The release also introduces new security and authentication capabilities, along with improvements to transaction management, database connectivity, data handling, and performance.
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Database change management on Databricks: migrations, environments, and AI-generated change

Sep 30, 2026 By Redgate Software In Redgate
You wouldn’t ship untested SQL Server database changes – Why is Databricks different? Databricks is where the data estate is growing, and increasingly where AI workloads run and generate change. But schema change there still happens the hard way: views and stored procedures managed through manually versioned scripts, drift between workspaces discovered when a deployment fails, and no reliable record of what changed, when, where, or why. As AI raises the volume and speed of schema change, these gaps widen.
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VictoriaMetrics

How Linux readahead works, and the two ways to change it

Sep 29, 2026 By JE Jesús Espino In VictoriaMetrics
Most of the time, when we read a file, we do not think much about what happens underneath. You ask for some bytes, you get some bytes. But when getting data off the disk efficiently is at the core of what your application does, what happens underneath starts to matter a great deal, and two identical read() calls can differ enormously in what they cost. So in this post we are going to look at one of the Linux kernel’s optimizations for reading files: readahead.
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harness

Oracle database DevOps: automating schema changes for Oracle

Sep 29, 2026 By Eric Minick In Harness
Learn how to safely automate Oracle schema changes. Discover what makes Oracle database DevOps unique. Automating Oracle schema changes safely means considering what makes Oracle different. A real Oracle database DevOps practice pairs version-controlled changelogs and pipeline integration with policy-as-code protection, pre-flight checks, and tested rollback scripts, so schema changes deploy with the same speed and safety as application code.
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VictoriaMetrics

VictoriaTraces in VictoriaMetrics Cloud: Complete Observability is Here

Sep 29, 2026 By PF Pablo Fernandez In VictoriaMetrics
Earlier this year, we launched VictoriaLogs in VictoriaMetrics Cloud, bringing fast and cost-effective log management to everyone. Today we launch the final major step toward full observability: VictoriaTraces is now available to all cloud users. With this release, you can now manage all three signals, metrics, logs, and traces, in one place with the predictable pricing, reliability, and the operational simplicity you’ve come to expect from VictoriaMetrics.
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devart

Database governance in the AI era: Framework, risks and best practices

Sep 25, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
AI database governance can get overlooked when teams rush to connect AI tools to production data. IBM’s 2025 research found that 97% of organizations that reported a breach involving an AI model or application lacked proper AI access controls. The risk is easy to see. Give an AI agent too much access and it can expose or alter data in seconds. Feed it poor-quality data and it may produce a confident but incorrect answer.
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speedscale

Test Your MySQL 8.4 Upgrade With Real App Queries

Sep 25, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
Before you start, paste this into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Gemini CLI, Kiro, or any assistant that can read a URL and run commands: The install-speedscale skill installs proxymock for your operating system and walks you through proxymock init. It stops when you need to complete browser sign-in, keeps your recordings on your machine, and connects the proxymock MCP server so your assistant can run the prompts later in this article.
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redgate

Announcing Redgate Flyway Enterprise's advanced capabilities for Snowflake now in Preview

Sep 25, 2026 By Stephanie Herr In Redgate
Snowflake has become a core part of how many teams store, model, and analyze their data. As more of the business comes to depend on Snowflake, the schema needs the same governance and control as any other production system. Too often, schema change in Snowflake happens through ad hoc scripts, tribal knowledge, or direct access in Snowsight.
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speedscale

Test PostgreSQL With the Queries Your App Actually Runs

Sep 24, 2026 By Matt LeRay In Speedscale
The first number from my local PostgreSQL 16 test was roughly 1,600 statements per second. It looked impressive. It was also the least useful result in the run. The useful part was the workload. It came from queries the demo app had actually sent: the same prepared statements, parameters, reads and writes. A synthetic benchmark tells you how PostgreSQL handles a synthetic workload. It does not tell you whether your migration just broke the UPDATE your app depends on.
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