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Make Your Office a More Productive Environment

Productivity is not one of those things that can just come from good intentions or giving your employees a long to-do list. It is something that is heavily influenced by the environment that people work in each and every day. So, no matter how many talented people you employ or how much you spend on the latest software, or no matter how ambitious your goals may be as a company, if your office setup is not quite right, your productivity is never going to be as high as it could be.

Mastering Cross-Database Date Manipulation: Subtracting Days in MySQL and H2

Short Summary: Different databases use different SQL syntax for simple tasks like subtracting days from a date. In this post, we show how these differences appear across databases such as MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, and H2. We also explain how dbForge Edge helps teams work with them in one place while keeping application logic consistent.

Solving the Cartesian Count Problem: Efficient Multi-Table Aggregation in Complex Databases

Short Summary: Counting related records across multiple dependent tables can produce wrong totals or slow queries when standard joins are used. This article explains a more reliable way to do this by counting each table separately, applying date filters, and checking that the query still runs well on large datasets. Tools such as dbForge Edge can also help if needed.

February 2026 Early Warning Signals

February 2026 saw another wave of impactful service disruptions across AI platforms, e-commerce infrastructure, developer tools, education providers, collaboration apps, and cloud services. Using StatusGator’s Early Warning Signals, we detected outages before providers publicly acknowledged them – and in several cases, providers never acknowledged them at all. Many services still lack transparent or timely status communication, leaving users with little visibility during critical incidents.

Protecting sensitive PII data with effective log management

Organizations rely heavily on logs or tracking changes, troubleshooting issues, and addressing authentication attempts. Although these logs are essential for ensuring a smooth onboarding experience, they often contain users' personally identifiable information (PII), including names, email addresses, phone numbers, and sometimes location or device details. The following sample log illustrates this scenario: 2025-11-01 09:12:33 ACCOUNT_CREATED - New user registered: Name: Michael Scott, Email.

The modern JFrog alternative: Why ConstructConnect switched to Cloudsmith

Is your artifact management slowing down your development velocity? In this video, we dive into how ConstructConnect migrated from JFrog Cloud to Cloudsmith–the world’s leading cloud-native artifact management platform–to eliminate hidden costs, simplify their CI/CD pipelines, and secure their software supply chain.

Stop Managing Infrastructure: How BHS Corrugated Scaled Artifact Management with Cloudsmith

Are you spending more time maintaining your artifact servers than building software? In this video, we explore how BHS Corrugated–a global leader in manufacturing technology with a presence in 20 countries–transformed their developer experience by moving from fragmented, self-hosted GitHub repositories to Cloudsmith: the world’s leading cloud-native artifact management platform.

Elephant in the Room, Episode 3: Building a CFP Review Platform with PostgreSQL & Django Live

In Episode 3 of Elephant in the Room, we move from discussion to delivery with a hands-on, live build of a real, community-focused application. Join Jay Miller, Abigail Mesrenyame Dogbe and Andres Pineda as they collaboratively design and build a CFP (Call for Proposals) review platform using PostgreSQL and Django. The aim: create a practical tool that helps speakers receive better feedback and helps organisers discover new and diverse voices.

Step 1 to Web App Deployment: Front-End Deployment

Front-end deployment is usually introduced as the easy part of web app deployment. "Build the assets and push them." Seems simple, right? Yet on the contrary, those 6 words have most likely caused more production issues than most error messages. Because while front ends do look simple, they are actually a delicate stack of assumptions wearing a UI that is misleadingly easy to use.