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Should you use UUIDs as the primary key in your database? You might have heard they are terrible for performance, which is often true for traditional UUIDv4. However, the introduction of UUIDv7 fixes many of the previous issues of UUIDv4. Let’s therefore explore what they are and why it might be a good idea to use them.

Network administration has become more complex than ever. IT professionals are tasked with managing sprawling infrastructures, maintaining uptime, optimizing performance and defending against increasingly sophisticated security threats. With hybrid environments, cloud integrations and remote workforces, the pressure to maintain seamless connectivity and security is relentless.

Over the last few months, I’ve had countless conversations with my peers about one topic: the rise of AI coding assistants. I know this isn’t exactly breaking news, and I’m sure you’ve had these conversations as well. But there’s a reason the common coffee chat today is 10 percent small talk and 90 percent about the AI-first world that we live in. Tools like GitHub Copilot, Cursor, and Devin are fundamentally changing how we write software.

AI is transforming how software is written and operated. Every day, engineering teams are discovering new ways to accelerate development, reduce toil, and push the boundaries of innovation. But this acceleration makes it easy to forget a fundamental truth: speed without guardrails creates risk, especially when implementing the AI-powered tools that dominate today's news cycles.

Organizations are increasingly looking to build quality and security into their systems and services by design, often by the adoption of frameworks, standards and certifications such as SOC 2 Type 2 audits and ISO/IEC 27001.

In July 2024, CrowdStrike — one of the world’s top cybersecurity companies — shipped a minor configuration update to its Windows security product. Within minutes, airlines, banks, hospitals, and retailers worldwide began crashing. The update wasn’t new code. It was a routine content file that slipped through with a bug in its safety checks. When Windows machines loaded it, the agent hit an out-of-bounds memory error and crashed. Devices blue-screened and got stuck in reboot loops.

For years, WebPageTest has been the gold standard in web performance testing, trusted by developers, SEOs, and performance engineers worldwide to make the web faster and better. Now, we’re taking that mission even further.

The third Civo Navigate London event has come to an end - and as you might be able to tell, this was an extra special one with some big changes for Civo First, a huge thank‑you to our amazing sponsors, attendees, speakers for making this event possible.

We've just released Refinery 3.0, a performance-focused update which significantly improves Refinery's CPU and memory efficiency. Refinery has a big job: it performs dynamic, consistent tail-based sampling that maintains proportions across key fields, adjusts to changes in throughput, and reports accurate sampling rates.

Wondering what's the big deal with Black Friday? And why does every business on earth seem to be obsessed with the quasi-holiday? Or are you just looking for great deals? Black Friday has become a sort of global cultural institution. Everyone knows about it, some look forward to it, and a few go crazy for the big day. It may be hard to believe, but Black Friday hasn't always been a thing, and it's actually a relatively recent development.