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"Why do I need to give Flyway this extra database?" That's one of the most common blockers we hear from users setting up a Flyway project. Flyway has long had a concept of a build database or shadow database that is a dedicated sandbox database for Flyway to do background work in. It's required for Flyway to be able to simulate what running a set of migrations will do to a database.

We have all watched AI speed up the way we write software. With tools like Copilot and ChatGPT, developers can spin up boilerplate, write complex functions, or draft entire micro services in minutes instead of days. It feels like magic. But there is a silent catch that we do not talk about enough: writing the code is only Day 1. The real challenge is Day 2 operations, which is everything that happens after that code is deployed.

India is the world's fourth-largest economy and accelerating fast. Here's why it should be on your network roadmap. Few markets combine scale, speed, and government intent the way India does right now. With a digital economy on track to reach USD $1 trillion by 2030, hyperscalers committing tens of billions in fresh investment, and connectivity infrastructure undergoing a generational upgrade, India has become one of the most consequential expansion decisions a technology business can make.

For years, moving workloads to the cloud has been driven by scalability, flexibility and the desire to reduce the capital expenditure associated with running a data center. In 2026, however, there is another factor entering the conversation: the rising cost of buying and refreshing physical servers. The question is now whether rapidly increasing hardware prices are enough to push organizations that might previously have refreshed their on-premises infrastructure towards cloud alternatives.

Most of what runs on a modern platform is built to stay up. Applications serve requests, workers process queues, and managed services keep databases and caches available around the clock. But a meaningful share of the real work does not fit that always-on shape.

Incident handling primer to help Google Cloud Platform customers design and practice reliability incident response and minimize business impact.

Wondering what the big deal is 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.