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Why Security and Stability Matter in Infrastructure Management

In the high-stakes world of modern infrastructure management, "move fast but break things" is not a viable strategy. As organizations scale their digital footprints, the competing demands of velocity and vulnerability have created a new operational reality. Today, the integrity of your infrastructure is synonymous with the integrity of your business. For system administrators and DevOps engineers, the landscape has shifted. It is not enough to simply provision servers and deploy applications.

4 on-call burnout signs (and how to address them)

Being on-call can sometimes feel overwhelming. If that feeling goes unnoticed for too long, it often translates into burnout. And early burnout signs usually show up in ways, like how people respond to incidents or how they feel about the schedule. This guide walks through four such signs that can be useful to watch for before on-call burnout sets in.

The foundations of software: open source libraries and their maintainers

Open source libraries are repositories of code that developers can use and, depending on the license, contribute to, modify, and redistribute. Open source libraries are usually developed on a platform like GitHub, and distributed using package registries like PyPI for Python and npm for JavaScript. These repositories contain pre-written, re-usable code that developers use to add elements or features within their software projects.

Environment support in Terraform Provider for Kosli - v0.2.0

We’re excited to announce support of physical environments in the Terraform Provider for Kosli! What’s Included Environment Management: Full lifecycle support for creating, updating, and managing physical environments types: K8S, ECS, S3, docker, server, and lambda. Manage legacy environments as IaC: Import your existing physical environments to have Terraform manage them.

How To Design AI-Native SaaS Architecture That Scales Without Killing Your Margins

AI-native SaaS products aren’t failing because the models are bad. They’re failing because the architecture can’t keep up with how AI actually behaves in production. What looks affordable in staging can erode your margins once real customers, workflows, and automation come into play. Designing AI-native SaaS architecture is now as much a margin decision as it is a technical one.

Rovo Dev Code Review in Bitbucket and GitHub | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

The demo portion of a recent webinar I did shows how to setup, configure, and use Rovo Dev code review in both Bitbucket and GitHub. Learn how to add custom coding standards to your repositories and see Rovo Dev check for the specific things you care about during code reviews. Learn how to add acceptance criteria to your Jira work items and see Rovo Dev verify them during code reviews.

dotConnect for Dynamics 365 | Secure C# ADO.NET connection with ORM support

Integrate Microsoft Dynamics 365 into your C# .NET applications with dotConnect for Dynamics 365—a powerful, high-performance data provider built for secure enterprise connectivity. From workflow automation to CRM data synchronization, dotConnect enables reliable access with seamless Visual Studio integration and advanced ORM support for modern development workflows. Chapters: Try it free for 30 days and see why thousands of developers trust dotConnect for Dynamics 365 in mission-critical environments.

Syslog Checks: How to find Insights in the Data Flood

Every SysAdmin knows the feeling. They are swimming in logs—terabytes of them. Every daemon, service, and kernel subsystem religiously writing their activities to syslog. The data exists. The signals are there. Yet, somehow, incidents still are still unpredictable. How is this even possible? Here's why this happens: Traditional syslog infrastructure was designed for storage and retrieval, not detection and response.