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What's new in Avantra 24.2

It's my pleasure to announce the release of Avantra 24.2. The second update of Avantra 24, building upon 24.1 which brought performance and customer requested bug fixes, 24.2 brings new innovations and enhancements to our Avantra platform. With over 300 changes in our development management system, Avantra 24.2 feels like a major release to us and we have something new everywhere you look. Let's dive deeper into the new features.
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Incidents are lessons, not failures

Delivering digital operations excellence - DevOps, incident management, and keeping organisations running - is a constant challenge. As customer digital expectations rise, so do the complexities of the tech stack and cloud services integrations. But to insist on 100% uptime and rush through incident management without taking learnings into account creates a poor culture that can damage the ability of the DevOps team. This is not how a business creates resilient infrastructure and high-performing teams.

Grafana Loki vs. ELK Stack for Logging: A Comprehensive Comparison

With the increasing complexity of modern applications, log management solutions have become synonymous with troubleshooting, monitoring, and ensuring application reliability. Moreover, choosing the right tools can significantly impact your application’s performance, efficiency, and overall operational costs. Two powerful tools that often come up in these discussions are Grafana Loki and the ELK Stack (consisting of Elasticsearch, Logstash, and Kibana).

Assembling the Zebra Intelligent Cabinet | Zebra

Welcome to the Zebra Experience Center! In this video, we guide you through the step-by-step process of assembling a Zebra Intelligent Cabinet from its flat pack. Learn about the essential tools you’ll need, including hex drivers, Torx bits, and more, to build your cabinet efficiently. Watch as we demonstrate how to properly align and secure each component, from side panels and brackets to the top and bottom panels, ensuring a sturdy and functional storage solution.

Apica Flow powered by OCI: A Modern Telemetry Pipeline Solution

As we traverse through a trend of rapid data growth and increasing demand for comprehensive observability, managing and monitoring data pipelines has become more complex and costly. That’s why we’ve partnered with Oracle Cloud to bring you Apica Flow—a modern, cost-effective telemetry pipeline solution designed to help you manage your data efficiently and save costs.

Feature Friday Feature Friday #20: Macros

Did you know CFEngine has Macros? They were first introduced in CFEngine 3.7 (back in 2015), and more have been introduced since then. Macros are convenient for preventing the parsing of a section of the policy. It is handy for protecting older binaries from getting tripped up on newer syntax the agent does not understand. Let’s take a look. Currently there are 8 macros. You can find examples of use within the Masterfiles Policy Framework.

SQL Prompt Improves Productivity - Tracy Boggiano | Redgate

Tracy Boggiano, Database Architect for Sound Physicians, explains how SQL Prompt improves productivity. SQL Prompt enables users to write high quality SQL faster. As well as autocompleting your code, SQL Prompt takes care of formatting, object renaming, and other distractions, so you can concentrate on how the code actually works..