DB-Engines reveals PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2024, beating Snowflake and Microsoft's Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. One of Redgate’s community websites, DB-Engines, is today announcing that PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for the fifth time overall after also being top-ranked in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. Second in the rankings was Snowflake, followed by Microsoft in third place.

Gearset has been revolutionizing Salesforce DevOps since its founding in 2015. The Cambridge-based team set out with a clear mission: to make Salesforce deployments simpler, faster, and more reliable for every team. Today, Gearset’s powerful product suite is trusted by over 2,500 companies worldwide to deploy metadata, automate CI/CD pipelines, seed sandboxes, and secure critical customer data.

Today, we are announcing the public alpha of the newest additions to the InfluxDB 3 time series database product line: InfluxDB 3 Core, our latest open source product, and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise, a commercial version built on Core that provides enhanced functionality for enterprise-scale applications.

New InfluxDB 3 Core and InfluxDB 3 Enterprise products now available for alpha testing. Today we’re excited to announce the alpha release of InfluxDB 3 Core (download), the new open source product in the InfluxDB 3 product line along with InfluxDB 3 Enterprise (download), a commercial version that builds on Core’s foundation. InfluxDB 3 Core is a recent-data engine for time series and event data.

With countless companies delivering their services digitally, reliability and performance are more important than ever. Whether you want to keep your website running 24/7 or ensure your application is responsive to user actions, you need a dependable way to measure your services’ performance and ensure they meet your requirements and those of your customers. Central to this is SLO (Service Level Objective). SLOs are targets that outline the expected performance of a particular service.

There is a phenomenal amount of Observability tools on the market, coming in all shapes and sizes, offering many tools and approaches to solve what seems to be an endless number of problems. It also can be overwhelming to use, hard to set up and expensive to run, especially if you are going with SaaS based market leaders like DataDog.

At Request Metrics, we’re always looking for ways to help you make your websites faster and your users happier. Today, we’re excited to announce a major new capability: Unified Performance Monitoring. Request Metrics now combines the power of real-user monitoring with automated lab performance testing to get a complete picture of your website’s performance.

Broken links are more than minor annoyances—they can significantly harm your website’s user experience, SEO rankings, and overall credibility. Whether managing a small blog or a complex e-commerce platform, ensuring that your site functions flawlessly is essential to keeping visitors engaged and search engines satisfied. However, identifying and fixing broken links manually can be time-consuming and error-prone. That’s where website monitoring software comes into play.

When it comes to Digital Employee Experience (DEX), the key to success is treating it as a journey, not a destination. Organizations need to deliver outcomes and value quickly, while simultaneously building the maturity of their DEX initiatives over time. The journey involves deliberate planning, with clearly defined milestones and goals along the way.

Instead of sifting through mountains of metrics across different network types, what if you had an AI-powered tool that could display all the necessary insights in an easy-to-understand format?