Speedscale leveraged Ephemeral / Preview Environments to help balance developer productivity and high-quality code by dynamically spinning mini-staging environments up and down on command for experimentation and deployment safety. The primary goals of the project were to reduce cloud infrastructure operating costs and increase deployment frequency. Benefits included speed, resource efficiency, and improved collaboration.

Integrating ServiceNow with Squadcast creates a powerful solution for IT Service Management (ITSM) teams, especially in environments where downtime isn’t an option and efficiency is critical. To state the obvious, IT incidents aren't just a nuisance - they're a threat. Downtime translates to lost revenue, frustrated customers, and a hit to your company's reputation. That's why a solid ITSM setup is essential.

Well, we can’t argue that Windows is the key platform for database development and management software—but what if you are a Mac user? Who said you can’t have equal opportunities to set up easy daily work with, for instance, MySQL databases? Simply take a closer look and you’ll see an abundance of top-tier MySQL tools for your Mac just around the corner.

In this blog post we will look at filetop command. It is available in BCC tool collection. Disk IO is one of the key activities happening on the system, especially for data intensive systems running databases or serving files.

In this blog post we will look at gethostlatency command. It is available in both BCC and bpftrace tool collections. Most applications and services use hostnames, rather than IP addresses to communicate with other services. This means before connection to the service can be established, another request needs to be made – to DNS (Domain Name System). As such its performance and availability impacts performance of virtually all services in your environment, yet it is often ignored.