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A Practical Guide to Refactoring Production Databases | The Tony and Tonie show Ep44

That “simple” production database refactor may be more dangerous than it looks. Learn how Data Modeler helps teams minimize the risk. Once a database is live, even simple design improvements can affect data, applications, reports, and integrations in unexpected ways. Tony and Tonie discuss how Redgate Data Modeler helps teams map out the proposed changes visually, expose hidden dependencies, and plan a safer roll out.

Vendor Management: How to Centralize Vendor Data With InvGate Asset Management

--- Still managing vendors through spreadsheets and disconnected supplier fields? In this video, Matt Beran shows how Vendor Management works inside InvGate Asset Management and how IT teams can centralize vendor data, contracts, assets, and procurement visibility in one place. Instead of scattered supplier records across contracts, asset inventories, and finance spreadsheets, InvGate Asset Management turns vendors into first-class records connected directly to your IT operations.

Why DevOps transformations fail in regulated industries, with Merge Ready's Matt Bailey

Cortex co-founder and CTO Ganesh Datta sits down with Matt Bailey, DevOps consultant and founder of Merge Ready. Matt shares lessons from helping large regulated organizations in finance, healthcare, and government transform their DevOps practices, and explains why DevOps is an outcome rather than a toolchain.

From Signal Corps to Space: Building Networks That Can't Fail with Troy MacDonald

What does it take to succeed in networking when complexity is constantly increasing, and change never slows down? In this episode of Next-Gen Network Heroes, host Bob Slevin sits down with Troy (David) MacDonald, a network engineer at Blue Origin and former U.S. Army Chief Warrant Officer, to explore a career that spans from infantry beginnings to designing and managing large-scale, mission-critical networks.

Optimizing Team Strengths for Effective Operations

Most people think great network engineers are defined by technical expertise. This episode challenges that idea. Because what Troy McDonald shows is that the real differentiator isn’t just technical skill—it’s the ability to translate complexity into clarity. From military operations to enterprise networks, one lesson keeps showing up.