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We’re excited to announce the release of the NiCE MariaDB on Linux Management Pack, designed to deliver advanced monitoring and performance insights for organizations running MariaDB on Linux infrastructure. As MariaDB continues to power business-critical applications across industries, visibility into its performance, availability, and health becomes essential.

Cloud computing empowers organizations to access IT resources on demand, over the Internet, and on a pay-per-use basis. Thus, your company does not need to purchase, install, operate, and upgrade hardware for physical data centers. Instead, you can rent resources as needed from cloud service providers such as Amazon Web Services (AWS). For instance, AWS provides compute, storage, database, networking, machine learning, data lake, analytics, security, and IoT resources/services.

Imagine you’re running a popular online learning platform that experiences a surge in traffic during peak hours, right before exams. Students worldwide are logging in simultaneously, watching videos, submitting assignments, and taking tests. If your Oracle Cloud Load Balancer isn’t distributing traffic efficiently or back-end servers are struggling to keep up, students could face slow loading times or service outages.

Distributed architecture is increasingly being adopted in current software systems because it brings great scalability and flexibility, keeping them resilient under real-world conditions, Unfortunately, this new distribution also introduces new points of failure in the systems. Traditional testing methods are no longer enough; they focus only on whether a system works, not on whether it keeps working under stress or failure. That is where chaos engineering comes in.

CircleCI gives you deep visibility into your builds, workflows, and tests, but jumping between browser tabs, copying project URLs, or re-authenticating across tools can slow things down. What if your IDE could just show you the projects you’re working on and let you act on them directly? This post shows how to use the list_followed_projects tool in the CircleCI MCP server to browse and interact with your CircleCI projects by chatting with an AI assistant inside your IDE.

This article chronicles my unexpected 3-hour adventure using Claude to create Gophyr: a fully functional Gopher client for Zephyr, complete with a Zephyr shell command set.

When we discuss networks, we typically envision data packets racing along physical wires like vehicles on a highway. But beneath this visible traffic flows another critical pathway that few recognize: the control plane highway. This unseen infrastructure, where routing information flows between devices, makes the data highway possible. Before user data can flow, millions of paths must be established, creating a parallel network of equally vital importance.

In modern enterprise environments, access management is key to ensuring security and regulatory compliance (ENS, ISO 27001, NIS2, etc.). That’s why Pandora FMS has added support for Azure Entra ID, enabling authentication through SAML (Security Assertion Markup Language). With this integration, we provide simplified and secure access to our platform using Single Sign-On (SSO).

Heroku and AWS offer distinct benefits for startups and mid-size companies. This guide compares pricing, scalability, security, and developer experience to help you choose the right cloud platform based on your team’s needs and growth goals.