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If We're Not Up, The Checkout Breaks

Kintsugi puts sales tax compliance on autopilot for 7,300 companies selling into 110 countries, and its tax engine sits inside other companies' checkouts. The answer has to arrive before the shopper finishes paying. "Typically, a customer's expectation is that we are returning the sales tax estimate on the invoice within 100 milliseconds." The cost of missing is not abstract: "For every minute that our sales tax API, if it ever goes down, our customers are not able to collect roughly $4 million in sales tax that they should be collecting.".

SQL Server development workflow: from design to deployment

This session walks SQL Server developers through a complete database development workflow, from designing schema changes to testing and deploying them safely, using SQL Toolbelt Essentials. Most database teams don't struggle with SQL itself. The friction comes from process: schema changes made without a clear picture of what's already there, inconsistent code quality across a team, databases left outside version control, and deployments that feel riskier than they should. This session covers all four, with a live demo in SSMS for each one.

Building India's PostgreSQL scene (with Hari Kiran) | The Simple Talk Podcast

Pat Wright sits down with PostgreSQL veteran Hari Kiran – founder of OpenSource DB and co-organizer of PG Day Hyderabad, where this episode was recorded. They talk community building, mentoring the next generation of PostgreSQL contributors, and how a coffee chat with a friend turned into one of India’s biggest PostgreSQL events.

Cribl On Your Coffee Break Episode 4 - Gathering REST data

In the 4th installment of our series, Leon looks at Cribl’s ability to collect REST API data. By the time the month (and the series) is over, you will have a pretty good idea of what Cribl can do, and how to do it. You’ll also have consumed your body weight in caffeinated beverages...

We renovated the Civo Community Slack: Here's what changed and why

The Civo Community Slack has become home to over 35,000 engineers, platform teams, students, and practitioners. It’s one of the things we’re most proud of, a genuine space where the people who use Civo and the people who built Civo are in the same room. Since starting the Civo Community Slack, we’ve shipped an entirely new brand, launched Konstruct, and expanded our AI infrastructure.

Certificate monitoring for your intranet hosts

Certificate monitoring from the cloud only sees what the internet sees, like your public websites. But the vCenter console, the internal API, the switch management page, or that thing on db01.corp.internal are invisible to it. Those certificates expire just like public ones. They just don’t warn anybody first. This gap became very clear when we shipped Private PKI. Now CertKit can issue certificates for internal names and IP addresses, deploy them, and install the root into your trust stores.

The case for preview environments with production data

Before he joined Upsun, Andrew Kester spoiled the biggest sale of a client's year. He was one of two or three web developers at a creative agency that did branding, logos, print, and websites. A design boutique was about to run its annual trunk show, and the discounts and featured brands were meant to stay secret until the reveal on Tuesday at noon. The client asked for a preview. The preview reached production.