Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Keep Calm and Carry On: Phone Protection for Ops Pros on the Move

In today's world, phones are more than communication devices. They are command centers for busy operations teams. Field engineers, traveling IT staff, and remote ops pros depend on their phones to manage alerts, access dashboards, and troubleshoot problems from anywhere. With so much riding on one pocket-sized device, keeping it safe becomes less about preference and more about survival.

Building a Preventive Maintenance Dashboard for Fleet Operations

Preventive maintenance takes precedence in fleet management. With careful planning and well-executed strategies, it can optimize vehicle efficiency, reduce downtimes, and elongate the life cycle of all your assets. It can be a hard nut to crack if you manage a large fleet. That's why companies invest massively in real-time solutions like preventive maintenance dashboards to overcome this challenge.

Shift Left on Performance Testing - Without Killing Developer Velocity

Traditional performance testing often comes late in the delivery cycle, typically just before release. By then, performance issues are usually quite expensive to fix, can delay deployments, and frustrate development velocity. A Shift Left testing approach addresses this by integrating performance testing early in the development cycle so issues surface while they’re still easy and cheap to fix.

What is Dynamic SQL in SQL Server?

Dynamic SQL in SQL Server is built for scenarios where queries can’t be fully defined in advance. It’s the method of choice when structure depends on user input, variable schemas, or runtime conditions, cases where static SQL falls short. However, without proper structure, this flexibility introduces security and maintenance challenges. To make it work at scale, you need a disciplined approach.

Will custobots drive $98 trillion in payments by 2027?

It starts like this. You wake up groggily and stumble into the kitchen. The coffee machine is already brewing your favourite blend. But that’s not the surprise. It's the message on your phone: "Coffee beans restocked. $10 paid. Delivery by noon." You didn’t place an order. You didn't lift a finger. Your machine did it for you. Welcome to 2025, where your devices aren't just smart, they're economically independent. These are machine customers (custobots). They negotiate. They pay.

Best Tool for Composing Git Commits in your IDE, Commit Composer in GitLens 17.4

In GitLens 17.2 we introduced Commit Composer as an early preview of a set of AI-powered tools to help you craft cleaner, more meaningful commits. With GitLens 17.4, Commit Composer has leveled up. Based on your feedback, it’s now a fully interactive drafting experience that lets you compose commits in a single click, and puts you in control of your commit history.

Failover and cloud aren't enough for reliability

Amin Momin of @CapgeminiGlobal talks about reliability takes dedicated effort beyond just using the cloud and setting up failover. Full transcript: There are two misconceptions about reliability. One is people only think failover is reliability. Just doing the failover, that will be enough from the reliability point of view. That's the first one. And the second one: we are deployed into the cloud, so it is the service provider's responsibility to provide the reliability.

How Elasticsearch Works: Documents, JSON & Index Explained

Ever wondered how Elasticsearch can search any kind of data? In this video, we break it down with a simple deck of cards analogy that makes indexing easy to understand. Each card is like a JSON document with fields and values, suit, color, number, type. Combine them and you’ve built an index, giving Elasticsearch the power to answer queries like “show me all the red cards” or “show me only the face cards.” If you can describe it, you can index it, and if you can index it, you can search it.