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Sustainability and website monitoring: Reducing your digital carbon footprint

Every business today understands the imperative to operate sustainably. We’re seeing green initiatives in offices, supply chains, and manufacturing processes. But what about the digital realm? The internet, and by extension your website, has a surprisingly significant carbon footprint—powered by energy-hungry data centers around the globe. This presents both a challenge and a remarkable opportunity for businesses relying on their online presence.

Access Applications Manager right from your Control Center! [Update for iOS users]

We have exciting news for our iOS application users!* You can now access your critical app performance data right from the Control Center of your iPhone! We know how hard it is to keep up with a dynamic IT infrastructure in real time. It gets even harder when you have to fire up your PC every time you want to take a look at the performance of your business-critical applications.

How to Connect MongoDB Using Python Connector From Devart to Perform DML Operations

Many Python developers choose MongoDB for its speed, flexibility, and scalability. This NoSQL database adapts to different types of data, letting you build features regardless of data structure complexity. It’s a natural choice for applications that have to store lots of different information, handle constant changes, or manage large volumes of data. From this tutorial, you’ll learn how to connect MongoDB using Python Connector from Devart to create, read, update, and delete data.

How to Configure a SQL Server Linked Server to Connect to MySQL

Looking for simple ways to connect an SQL Server Linked Server to different data sources, such as an external database, its table, or a particular object in MySQL Server? The Linked Server configuration allows you to query data and use DML functions to access these external sources directly within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS). With such a configuration, you are no longer required to move or duplicate data between different database systems to overcome OS barriers and complexities.

Survey: What's Slowing Progress Towards Engineering OKRs?

To ensure progress towards this ideal state, OKRs (objectives and key results) are often used to create tangible goalposts along the way. For engineering teams, these objectives often take two forms: But all of these programs involve moving from one state to another. As simple as that sounds, the act of doing so, successfully, has become incredibly challenging. Just understanding current state requires a ton of manual effort: Who owns what? What needs to change? Who’s going to do it?

Hardware and Software should be Co-Designed

Consumers crave interactivity. The best way to deliver it is to unite software and hardware. Product design used to be about perfecting hardware specs. The software was an afterthought. Today, this story is flipped on its head. The devices users love are built differently. The best embedded engineering teams co-design hardware and software from the start. It’s not just a shift in process; it’s a shift in thinking. Are we building products or creating experiences?

A critical look at the UK Government's AI opportunities action plan

The UK government’s recently announced AI Opportunities Action Plan marks an ambitious step forward in harnessing artificial intelligence to drive economic growth and societal progress. As the CEO of Civo, a UK-founded company committed to reimagining the cloud with sustainability, innovation, and sovereignty at its core, I welcome this bold vision.

The hidden costs of not tracking network configurations

Has this ever happened in your workplace? A key application goes offline during peak working hours, or worse, when a client is evaluating your business, leaving network administrators scrambling to identify the cause. Could it be a misconfigured switch, an unauthorized change to a router, or undocumented configuration drift? Without proper network configuration management, your organization is losing more than just uptime—it’s losing money, reputation, and agility.

Grafana 11.5 New Filters UI for Grafana Dashboards (Public Preview) | Grafana Labs

Introducing the new Filters UI in Grafana, now available in public preview! This update makes interacting with ad-hoc filters faster, more intuitive, and keyboard-friendly, giving you a streamlined experience when managing filters in your dashboards. What’s New? Unified filter input – Manage all filters in a single combo-box-like UI Faster interactions – Requires fewer clicks and takes up less space Keyboard-friendly navigation – Easily create, edit, and delete filters with shortcuts Multi-value support – Select multiple values with the new one-of/not-one-of operators.