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PostgreSQL Tutorial: Fundamentals and Resources

With an expanding community of users and an array of data management features under the hood, PostgreSQL has outperformed less popular databases in 2024 and is expected to become a huge trend in the upcoming year. For those who know their way around other RDBMSs, this database management system is quite easy to master, even though it has a more complex architecture.

Simulating Database Performance Under Load with Speedscale

Big data storage tools like BigQuery, Hadoop, and Cassandra are used to manage large volumes of structured and unstructured data generated by modern applications. Unlike traditional databases, these tools provide scalable and distributed infrastructure that efficiently stores, processes, and analyzes petabytes of data across clusters.

.NET 9 Preview Rolls Out: What's New?

.NET 9 will be released this November, featuring versatile performance and security upgrades, C# syntax enhancements, and new LINQ methods along with the.NET Aspite stack for cloud-native development, ML.NET for extended AI capabilities, and an array of other handy updates. However, while we are still one month away from the official.NET 9 launch, its Preview version is already here, giving developers an early look at the latest advancements. Keep reading to explore the upcoming improvements in detail.
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How MDR Services Can Optimize Threat Intelligence

Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services play a critical role in cybersecurity. These technologies remotely monitor, detect, and respond to threats, blending threat intelligence with human expertise to hunt down and neutralize potential risks. However, one of the biggest challenges MDRs face is managing the sheer volume and variety of threat intelligence data they receive. This data comes from internal resources and the numerous security technologies their customers use, making it difficult to create a cohesive picture of the threat landscape.

Trends in AI: RAFT and the Worlds First Network Language Model

In this video Product Marketing Evangelist John Capobianco explores retrieval augmented fine tuning and the world's first network language model (NML) fine-tuned by Selector AI! We will cover the evolution of operations as well as various inflection points in technology including artificial intelligence. Then we will deep dive into how, and why, techniques likes RAG and Fine Tuning augment human operations dealing with data at scale and complexity never seen before.

Rancher Live: The nuts and bolts of platform engineering

Is platform engineering just another fancy word for DevOps? If you've ever wondered this, you're not alone! In this Rancher Live episode, Divya Mohan will host Colin Griffin, co-chair of the CNCF Platforms Working Group, to deconstruct the newest buzzword in town. Together, they will also be delving into some of the artefacts from the Working Group - namely, the Platform Engineering Maturity Model and the Platforms Whitepaper - to understand how to measure the value of the practice effectively.

Incident Communication Best Practices - 6 Tips To Improve Incident Communication

If there’s one thing for certain – you can expect IT incidents in 2024. These could be cybersecurity incidents, system outages, or even just degraded performance. Despite the severity, even mild degraded performance can affect your users negatively. Maintenance without proper communication can decrease your reliability. Moreover, outages are costly.

Feature Friday #25: Unprivileged execution

Generally, cf-agent runs as a privileged user. But did you know that you can also run as an unprivileged user? A major benefit of running cf-agent unprivileged is the ability to prototype policies during development. However, attempting to execute cf-agent as an unprivileged user without proper configuration will result in errors.

Open Source Software Licenses vs Revenue Growth Rates

I don’t understand why pure open-source licenses, such as Apache2, MIT or BSD, should be replaced with a source available license in order to increase profits from enterprise support contracts. That’s why we at VictoriaMetrics aren’t going to change the Apache2 license for our products. Our main goal is to provide good products to users, and to help users use these products in the most efficient way.