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dotConnect 2025.1 Release: Built for speed. Designed for security.

We’re excited to announce dotConnect 2025.1, a major update that brings full support for the newest versions of.NET and Visual Studio. This release boosts performance with new batch update capabilities, adds built-in OAuth for easier cloud integration, and streamlines the product lineup by removing outdated technologies so developers can rely on a more modern, focused data access stack.

Looking back at 2025: Innovations that shaped DevOps and observability

The year 2025 has been exciting for Site24x7, packed with innovations designed to make monitoring smarter, faster, and more intuitive. From enhanced APM insights and deeper database observability to a more powerful log management experience and AI-driven plugin enhancements, we’ve focused on giving teams the tools they need to troubleshoot faster, gain clearer insights, and manage complex environments with ease. Let’s rewind and see our 2025 highlights.

Build a FIPS-enabled Ubuntu EKS image with EC2 image builder

A step-by-step demo using Ubuntu Pro and AWS Image Builder. In this video, we show how to create your own FIPS-enabled Ubuntu EKS image using EC2 Image Builder. The demo walks through creating an image pipeline, defining a recipe, and selecting a custom Ubuntu Pro AMI using SSM Parameter Store to automatically pull the latest available image. The process includes enabling FIPS updates on an Ubuntu Pro machine, validating that FIPS is enabled, and testing that the system is running in FIPS mode.

Streamlining Flyway Setup with the Guided Shadow Configuration

Guided Shadow Configuration removes the setup overhead of shadow databases in Flyway Desktop, allowing teams to adopt migrations-based workflows quickly and safely with minimal configuration. A Shadow Database is a disposable, ‘sandbox’ database that Flyway uses to generate and verify migration scripts.

Accelerating Sentinel data lake deployment | Webinar | VirtualMetric & Microsoft

Microsoft Sentinel data lake is becoming a core component of modern security architectures. In this on-demand webinar, Microsoft and VirtualMetric discuss how security teams can approach Sentinel data lake adoption to improve visibility, control cost, and prepare their data for AI-driven security workflows.

DevEx matters for coding agents, too

The speed at which you can go from making a change in your code, to understanding if it actually works, has long been a popular topic of discussion (and often, humour) for engineers. This remains true in a world with AI. Developer experience isn't just important for humans anymore. Those agents we're all using hundreds of times a day? Feedback cycles matter just as much for them, if not more.