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devart

Best PostgreSQL ODBC Drivers in 2026: How to Choose

Feb 3, 2026 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart
PostgreSQL ODBC drivers are no longer background components. For teams running BI, reporting, and ETL on PostgreSQL, the drivers directly affect how fast queries run, how reliably dashboards refresh, and whether data pipelines remain stable as usage grows. As PostgreSQL moves deeper into analytics stacks, these capabilities are driving the demand for these tools, a trend reflected in broader ODBC market growth.
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haproxy

Properly securing OpenClaw with authentication

Feb 3, 2026 By Jakub Suchy In HAProxy
OpenClaw (née MoltBot, née ClawdBot) is taking over the world. Everyone is spinning their own, either on a VPS, or their own Mac mini. But here's the problem: OpenClaw is brand new, and its security posture is mostly unknown. Security researchers have already found thousands of publicly available instances exposing everything from credentials to private messages.
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puppet

What is DevOps? Definition, Lifecycle, Best Practices, & Tools

Feb 3, 2026 By Puppet In Puppet
We’ve seen a huge explosion of interest in DevOps over the last few years. But for people who are new to these ideas, it’s not always obvious what DevOps entails and what the benefits are, particularly in larger environments. So, what is DevOps all about? And what do you need to know to succeed? In this blog, you’ll get a breakdown of how DevOps works, its benefits, and the best practices and tools that help teams build and deploy software with speed and confidence.
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Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I Next?

Feb 3, 2026 By Virtana In Virtana
Every CIO is asking the same question: Am I next? We’ve seen it across cloud providers, carriers, and global platforms—organizations with enormous scale and investment still experience public, business-impacting outages. The risk isn’t lack of effort. It’s the growing gap between AI-driven complexity and the ability to see, understand, and resolve issues fast enough to protect availability commitments.
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Disaster Recovery Testing by Gremlin

Feb 3, 2026 By Gremlin In Gremlin
Do you know how your system will respond when major outages strike? Disaster Recovery Testing safely simulates real catastrophic failures across your entire system. You can centrally and easily run zone, region, and datacenter-scale reliability tests across your entire organization simultaneously for disaster recovery, business continuity, compliance verification, and more. With Disaster Recovery Testing, tests that used to take engineering-months and dozens of experts can be done safely and securely in hours by a single person.
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cloudzero

How To Calculate Customer Retention Cost in 2026: The Hidden SaaS Metric

Feb 3, 2026 By CloudZero In CloudZero
You may have heard that keeping an existing customer is five times cheaper than acquiring a new one. But that isn’t always true. “Hidden costs” often accompany customer retention, loyalty, and increasing “share of customer”. Could you be spending more on customer retention than on winning new customers? This quick guide will walk you through the meaning of Customer Retention Cost (CRC), why it’s important to calculate it, and how to calculate it.
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kosli

Kosli and Team Topologies - A Strategic Partnership for SDLC Governance

Feb 3, 2026 By Bruce Johnston In Kosli
We’re delighted to announce a strategic partnership between Kosli and TeamTopologies - a collaboration that brings together SDLC Governance automation with the world’s leading framework for organizing business and technology for fast flow of value.
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upsun

The hidden cost of "just using Kubernetes"

Feb 3, 2026 By Upsun In Upsun
Kubernetes has become the default foundation for a lot of modern application infrastructure. It’s powerful, flexible, and widely supported, which makes it an obvious starting point for many teams building a cloud-native application platform (a standardized way for teams to deploy, run, secure, and operate applications in production). But there’s a distinction that often gets lost early in the decision process: Kubernetes is a framework. It is not a platform.
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spike

How to choose the right on-call rotation

Feb 3, 2026 By Sreekar In Spike
Choosing an on-call rotation is about finding a rhythm that balances your team’s well-being and your system’s reliability. The right on-call rotation helps prevent burnout and makes on-call duties sustainable over the long run. This guide walks you through different on-call rotation patterns, from daily rotation to after-hours rotations. We’ll look at why you might choose a particular rotation and the challenges that often come with it.
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spike

Why a month is too long to be on-call

Feb 3, 2026 By Sreekar In Spike
There is often a temptation to stretch on-call shifts to a month or longer, especially when incident volume is low. The logic seems sound. If the phone rarely rings, it feels unnecessary to hand off on-call duties every week. But looking strictly at incident volume often misses the human side of the equation. Being on-call isn’t just about answering pages. It is also a state of mind. Even when it is quiet, simply being on-call could create fatigue of its own.
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