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What to expect from a database monitoring vendor: looking beyond the tool

Apr 23, 2026 By Laura Copeland In Redgate
Part 2: Key insights from a fireside chat with Chris Yates. Read part 1 here. Choosing a database monitoring vendor isn't just about features. Once you’re confident that it’s time to reassess your database monitoring strategy, the natural instinct is to start comparing products. However, it’s vital to know how to assess vendor relationships, support quality, and product innovation before you sign anything.
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Professional Data Connectivity: Top Airtable ODBC Drivers for 2026

Professional Data Connectivity: Top Airtable ODBC Drivers for 2026

Apr 23, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters
For businesses that need to bridge the gap between Airtable's cloud-based flexibility and the analytical power of tools like SQL Server, Power BI, or Excel, a professional ODBC (Open Database Connectivity) driver is a fundamental requirement. Selecting a high-performance driver ensures that your Airtable "bases" are treated like a traditional relational database, providing a structured SQL layer over your CRM and project data.
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circleci

Terminal dependencies for CircleCI workflows: Always run what matters

Apr 22, 2026 By Brice Nkengsa In CircleCI
When a job fails, gets canceled, or never runs, the work that still needs to happen afterward (cleanup, notifications, teardown) has no clean way to trigger. There is no easy way to express “run this no matter what” in your pipeline config without duplicating jobs or adding fragile workaround branches. Terminal jobs change that.
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Android Remote Management: The Future of Business Device Management

Apr 22, 2026 By AirDroidOfficial In AirDroid
One Android device going offline in your store or warehouse can throw off your whole day. In this video, we'll show you how to manage all your Android devices remotely from a single dashboard, without running around on-site. You'll learn how remote monitoring tracks device health in real time, from battery levels to network status. We'll also walk through remote troubleshooting, app deployment, and how to enforce security policies across your fleet. Then we'll look at how teams in retail, logistics, and healthcare use these tools to keep operations running smoothly.
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Komodor

AI SRE Summit 2026 Brings Together Engineering Leaders From AWS, Salesforce, Man Group, Smarsh, Honeycomb and More

Apr 22, 2026 By Komodor In Komodor
Virtual event will explore what it takes to use AI in production SRE, from incident response and observability to platform design, cost control and self-healing operations TEL AVIV and SAN FRANCISCO, April 22, 2026 — Komodor, the autonomous AI SRE company, today announced it will host AI SRE Summit 2026, a free live virtual event on Tuesday, May 12, 2026, bringing together site reliability, platform engineering and cloud-native leaders to discuss how AI is changing production operations, and where i
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Resolve's Agents of IT podcast - Ep. 17 - Agentic Workflows to Performance Intelligence

Apr 22, 2026 By Resolve In Resolve
In this episode of Agents of IT, Ari Stowe sits down with Geoff McQueen, four-time founder and CEO of Ascendius, to unpack what it takes to navigate AI-driven disruption. Geoff shares a clear framework for where automation is headed, from individual AI use to agent-driven workflows to AI embedded across the business. Most organizations are still early. The real opportunity is in making AI work at the business level.
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atlassian

Introducing on-demand Pipelines: run pipelines via API

Apr 22, 2026 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
Your CI/CD pipeline doesn’t have to live in a YAML file anymore. With on-demand pipelines, you can generate pipeline definitions programmatically, from scripts, services, or automation tools – and execute them instantly via the Pipelines API. No commit. No pull request. No static configuration to modify. Just build the YAML your situation demands and run it.
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netdata

Nagios Plugins Collector: Run Your Existing Checks and Custom Scripts Inside Netdata

Apr 22, 2026 By Shyam Sreevalsan In netdata
A lot of teams have a collection of Nagios plugins and custom monitoring scripts that have been running reliably for years. Some are standard community plugins for checking disk health or SSL certificate expiry. Others are homegrown Bash or Python scripts that check something very specific to the business: whether an API endpoint returns the right payload, whether a batch job completed on time, whether a queue depth is within bounds.
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atlassian

Share artifacts between parent and child pipelines

Apr 22, 2026 By Edmund Munday In Atlassian
As part of an initiative to increase the flexibility and power of child pipelines, we are happy to announce that Bitbucket Pipelines will now allow you to share artifacts between parent and child pipelines. This feature extends the use-cases for child pipelines, allowing a greater degree of coordination between parent and child and the use of child-pipelines as modular pieces of processing for larger operations with artifacts. Here’s how it works.
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jfrog

Under the Hood: Engineering JFrog Premium Availability

Apr 22, 2026 By Michael Tulp In JFrog
In the modern software factory, 99.9% uptime is no longer the gold standard. A standard 99.9% SLA translates to approximately 43 minutes of unexpected downtime per month. While industry data shows that a single minute of downtime costs an average of $9,000, for large global enterprises, that figure can easily be 5x higher. At tens of thousands of dollars per minute, those 43 minutes quickly compound into a catastrophic financial and operational risk.
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