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January 2025

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.

Redesigned Dashboarding Sharing Experience in Grafana 11.5 | Grafana Labs

In Grafana version 11.5, we've completely redesigned the dashboard sharing experience to make it more intuitive, user-friendly, and efficient! This update is available in all editions of Grafana. Join Natacha (Product Designer) and Juani (Senior Software Engineer) from the Grafana Labs Sharing Squad as they walk you through these updates and demonstrate how to streamline your sharing workflow in Grafana 11.5.

Grafana 11.5: Faster and Easier Migration to Grafana Cloud | Support for Plugins and Alerts

Updates to the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant: Plugins and Alerts! Thinking about moving to Grafana Cloud? Whether you're an OSS user exploring cloud benefits or an enterprise customer transitioning a large deployment, the Grafana Cloud Migration Assistant makes it simpler and faster than ever.

Grafana 11.5 Now GA! Here's the TL;DR | Grafana Labs

Grafana 11.5 is here, packed with exciting updates to enhance your workflow! This release focuses on three main areas: Sharing visualizations with streamlined workflows for exporting dashboards and panels, enhanced PDF reporting options, and the ability to share links with sample images. Managing data with upgraded ad-hoc filters and powerful transformations for extracting and organizing messy data. Migrating to the cloud with the new Grafana Cloud migration tool that supports all plugins and Grafana alerting (now in public preview).