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LLM Testing in 2025: Methods and Strategies

Large Language Models, or LLMs, have become a near-ubiquitous technology in recent years. Promising the ability to generate human-like content with simple and direct prompts, LLMs have been integrated across a diverse array of systems, purposes, and functions, including content generation, image identification and curation, and even heuristics-based performance testing for APIs and other software components.

Lessons from the Aftermath: Postmortems vs. Retrospectives and Their Significance

Understanding what went wrong, what went right, and how to improve is crucial for IT teams striving for excellence. But as teams evaluate their processes and outcomes, they often encounter two tools for reflection: postmortems and retrospectives. While they may seem similar at first glance, their objectives and applications differ significantly. Let’s dive into the nuances of retrospective vs. post mortem and explore why both hold a pivotal place in team growth and project success.

How to Handle Null or Empty Values in SQL Server

When working with databases, we often encounter rows that lack data. This missing data may result from unknown or inapplicable values, errors during data import or input, or specific calculations involving non-existent values. In such cases, there are two ways to represent missing data: NULLs and empty (or blank) values. While these might seem identical at first glance, they are different and impact essential database operations in distinct ways.

Reflecting on 2024: A year of growth and innovation for CloudSpend

CloudSpend Wrapped 2024 As the holiday spirit fills the air, it’s time to look back at a truly transformative year for ManageEngine CloudSpend. With a suite of groundbreaking features, 2024 saw CloudSpend evolve into a powerful tool for managing multi-cloud costs effectively. Let’s revisit the key milestones and share some exciting glimpses of what lies ahead.
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Enhanced Monitoring for Citrix Environments

Citrix has become a cornerstone of modern IT infrastructures, particularly as organizations adapt to remote and hybrid work models. By providing secure, scalable solutions for delivering virtualized applications and desktops, Citrix enables businesses to centralize their IT operations while ensuring employees can access the resources they need from any location. Key solutions, such as Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops (VAD) and Citrix Application Delivery Controller (ADC), empower organizations to manage virtualized workloads efficiently, regardless of the underlying hardware or cloud environment.

How to Discover Advanced Persistent Threats in AWS

When it comes to managing AWS cloud security, a growing concern for security operations (SecOps teams) is the increasing sophistication of digital threats. While conventional cyber threats deploy widely known tools and techniques in crude, all-or-nothing attempts to breach enterprise security controls, sophisticated attacks known as Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) employ more advanced technologies and methods to gain and maintain access to secure systems for long periods of time.

Observability to AIOps: Transforming Anomaly Detection for Modern Enterprises

As businesses increasingly digitize operations, IT systems are evolving into complex, distributed ecosystems. Applications run across multi-cloud environments, microservices power critical processes, and data flows in real time across countless touchpoints. While this transformation drives agility and scalability, it introduces significant challenges: hidden anomalies that can disrupt operations, frustrate users, and damage revenue.

New improvement: Component filter tags for easier filtering

One of StatusGator’s most important cloud service monitoring features is component filtering. Many services have multiple components such as regions, products, or features and not every component may be relevant to you. Our new component filter tags help you quickly identify how many components of a service you’re currently monitoring. This makes it easier to ensure your notifications are focused on what matters most.

Time-Saving Tips for Using Puppet: Build, Run & Manage Your Infrastructure

We’re always rolling out new ways to make Puppet easier to use and maintain so you can run better infrastructure, ditch toil, save time, and increase ROI — fast. This guide will help you with a few need-to-know time saving tricks that can make starting with Puppet, or continuing to manage Puppet, easier and speedier.

The evolving role of SREs: Balancing reliability, cost, and innovation

A look at the expanding roles of SREs and the new skills needed: cost management and AI Imagine the CTO walks into your team meeting and drops a bombshell: "We need to cut our cloud costs by 30% this quarter." As the lead SRE, this might cause a strong reaction — isn’t your job about ensuring reliability? When did you become responsible for the company's cloud bill? If you've had a similar experience, you're not alone. The role of site reliability engineers (SREs) is evolving fast.