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The Strategic Shift to Managed Optical Fiber Networks (MOFN)

Mar 1, 2026 By Mitch Simcoe In Ribbon

As digital transformation accelerates, the underlying infrastructure supporting your enterprise or service provider network faces unprecedented pressure. The exponential growth of data, driven by cloud computing, 5G, and particularly Artificial Intelligence (AI), demands a fundamental rethink of how you approach connectivity.

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The Rise of Technical Virtual Assistants: QA Testing, Documentation, and DevOps Support in 2026

Mar 1, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

Virtual assistants are no longer just handling emails and scheduling meetings. In 2026, a growing number of tech companies are outsourcing QA testing, technical documentation, project coordination, and even DevOps support tasks to skilled virtual assistants - at 60-70% less than hiring equivalent local talent.

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ODBC Driver for MySQL: Open-Source vs Commercial (2026)

Feb 28, 2026 By Dereck Mushingairi In Devart

The MySQL ODBC driver is what keeps BI tools, reporting systems, and ETL pipelines connected to MySQL without errors. Teams have depended on it for years, and it’s still vital today, especially with MySQL ranked worldwide in February 2026. However, not all ODBC drivers are built alike. There are two categories: open-source options and commercial ones. While both connect applications to MySQL, they differ in areas like stability, performance, security, and support.

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The Real Cost of a Shared Staging Environment

Feb 28, 2026 By Alin Dobra In Bunnyshell

Why it's slowing your team down - especially when AI is writing the code.

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Humanized AI Text for Stronger DevOps and Operations Content

Feb 28, 2026 By OpsMatters In OpsMatters

You create content for operations teams, DevOps engineers, SREs, and IT decision-makers. Topics include monitoring, incident management, cloud infrastructure, ITSM processes, and observability tools. AI generates initial drafts quickly. The results frequently come across as mechanical. Sentences follow predictable patterns. Technical explanations lose nuance. Readers in this field expect precise, practical language from experienced practitioners. They detect generated text easily. Engagement drops when content feels detached from real-world ops challenges.

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Mastering Temporal LEFT OUTER JOINs for Historical State Analysis in SQL Server

Feb 27, 2026 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart

Short Summary: This guide shows how to use time-based LEFT OUTER JOINs with SQL Server temporal tables, step by step. You’ll see how dbForge tools help you fine-tune these queries so you can get accurate reports for specific points in time, fully understand how your data changes, and confirm that your logic is correct.

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IT Cost Optimization Strategy: Eliminating Guesswork with Observability

Feb 27, 2026 By Andy Wojnarek In Galileo

IT organizations are being asked to reduce costs, manage risk, and maintain performance at the same time. Meanwhile, infrastructure complexity continues to grow, and vendor pricing changes are reshaping budget assumptions. Too often, an IT cost optimization strategy is shaped by incomplete data around sizing, licensing, refresh timing, and platform decisions. That uncertainty leads to overprovisioning, budget surprises, and reactive operations. Observability changes that equation.

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From Chaos Engineering to Resilience Testing: Why We're Expanding How Teams Validate Reliability | Harness Blog

Feb 27, 2026 By Uma Mukkara In Harness

At Harness, we’re committed to helping teams build and deliver software that doesn’t just work – it thrives under pressure, scales reliably, and recovers swiftly from the unexpected. Today, we’re taking the next step in that mission by evolving our Chaos Engineering module into Resilience Testing. This evolution reflects how reliability is tested in practice today.

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Engineering Metrics Success: Communicate Speed, Quality, and Business Outcomes | Harness Blog

Feb 27, 2026 By Thomas Dockstader In Harness

Engineering metrics tools won’t solve problems if there isn’t communication about expectations in place. Learn how leaders are connecting engineering metrics with business outcomes. Engineering organizations are waking up to something that used to be optional: measurement. Not vanity dashboards. Not a quarterly “engineering metrics review” that no one prepares for. Real measurement that connects delivery speed, quality, and reliability to business outcomes and decision-making.

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Securing 80,000 transactions per second at Infobip with HAProxy Enterprise WAF

Feb 27, 2026 By Daniel Skrba In HAProxy

The average cost of a security breach reached nearly $4.4 million in 2025, according to the publication Cost of Data Breach Report. To proactively address this substantial financial and security risk, Infobip, a global cloud communications platform, used HAProxy Enterprise to implement a security and uptime framework that is both highly modular and highly performant.

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