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Celebrating 14K Stars on GitHub: Spring Update

May 21, 2025 By Denys Holius In VictoriaMetrics

Seeing that VictoriaMetrics products are this popular with engineers worldwide is fantastic: Just a little over a year ago, we hit 10K stars, and with the adoption of VictoriaLogs, the star count now went beyond 14K. We don’t take these GitHub Stars milestones for granted: It’s amazing to see these stats grow organically thanks to the community of users out there who use our products. Thank you so much!

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PostgreSQL extensions you need to know in 2025

May 21, 2025 By Celeste Horgan In Aiven

PostgreSQL is by design lightweight and un-opinionated but its killer feature has long been its extensions ecosystem. The extensions ecosystem adapts and customizes PostgreSQL data storage and manipulation use cases, making it suitable for AI, analytics, document data stores and more. This flexibility keeps PostgreSQL viable as an option for any business or startup, as it’s hard to ‘outgrow’ PostgreSQL.

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Redgate Flyway's latest major release: more flexibility, more control

May 19, 2025 By Victoria Roe In Redgate

With advances in AI and heightened compliance requirements, the way we handle data is changing rapidly. This makes a robust database change management process crucial for organizations who still need to ship value to market, while getting the right data into the hands of decision-makers faster. It’s a tough set of demands for any organization to grapple with as they modernize their data for the future.

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Future-Proof Your MariaDB-Based Services

May 16, 2025 By NiCE IT Mgmt In NiCE IT Mgmt

We’re excited to announce the release of the NiCE MariaDB on Linux Management Pack, designed to deliver advanced monitoring and performance insights for organizations running MariaDB on Linux infrastructure. As MariaDB continues to power business-critical applications across industries, visibility into its performance, availability, and health becomes essential.

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Database monitoring in Financial Services: why this high-stakes sector requires a scalable, more comprehensive solution

May 16, 2025 By Jess Folkerts In Redgate

IT and data teams in Financial Services must meet the more exacting demands for data integrity, compliance, performance, high availability and security that are expected in the sector. These demands require a dedicated, comprehensive, and scalable monitoring solution to help teams succeed in this high stakes environment.

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Simple Talks Podcast | S2 Episode 9 - Coffee chat with Carlos Chacon

May 15, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate

Carlos Chacon of Marathon Consulting joins Louis for a lively chat about topics far and wide, from the community and podcasts to security and laundromats. Carlos has his own longstanding podcast and, as they came to the end of the interview, he turned the tables on Louis and made him answer some of his own questions too!

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State of the Observability Databases with Dee Kitchen (Grafana Office Hours #30)

May 15, 2025 By Grafana In Grafana

In this Grafana Office Hours, we talk about the state of observability databases (Grafana Loki, Mimir, Tempo, and Pyroscope) and where they're going. We talk about current and upcoming architectural changes in all four, how we're making them more performant, how compatible they are with OpenTelemetry, and what we're working on next for each database. In this conversation are Dee Kitchen (VP of Engineering for Databases) and Senior Developer Advocates Jay Clifford and Nicole van der Hoeven.

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Sensitive Action Log in Redgate Monitor Enterprise

May 13, 2025 By Ben Emmett In Redgate

I’m excited to announce a new capability in Redgate Monitor Enterprise: the Sensitive Action Log. As infrastructure becomes more complex, it’s more critical than ever to maintain control over how your monitoring environment is configured and accessed. Whether you’re responding to internal compliance policies, preparing for audits, or simply tightening operational security, it’s key to understand who did what, when.

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Simple Safeguards for PowerShell Scripting with Flyway | The Tony and Tonie Show

May 13, 2025 By Redgate Software In Redgate

The ability to run PowerShell, Bash or Java callbacks adds a lot of power and flexibility to Flyway automation. But how do we ensure these scripts are trusted, don't contain any 'dangerous' commands, and are immutable once signed?

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How to Use SQL Server Filtered Indexes for Better Queries

May 9, 2025 By Victoria Lazarus In Devart

SQL Server’s filtered index is one of the most effective features for improving query performance and reducing index maintenance. Whether you’re working with big tables that don’t have much data or queries that constantly filter by the same conditions, filtered indexes offer a smart way to focus only on the rows that matter most.

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