Live SQL Server quiz! | The Simple Talk Podcast
How well do the Redgate Advocates know SQL Server? Find out in this quick-fire quiz, recorded live with an audience at SQL Saturday Day of Data Baton Rouge on July 18th!
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Zero Day to Fix: Why Security Response Speed-Not Discovery-Is Your Real Bottleneck | Harness Blog
Here's the uncomfortable truth about the Mythos era: knowing about a vulnerability and being able to neutralize it are two entirely different problems. AI models like Mythos are finding vulnerabilities 10x faster than humans ever could. Project Glasswing participants discovered over 10,000 high and critical vulnerabilities in their applications. Firefox alone had 271 previously unknown zero-days exposed by Mythos. That's the good news.
When Your SQL Table Outgrows Itself: Lessons from Refactoring at Scale | Harness Blog
At Harness, we build an AI-powered software delivery platform, and test result data is core to how we help engineering teams ship faster. The table that stores it started small: one row per record, all the context right there on the row. Simple, readable, and it worked. Until it didn't. This is the story of how we refactored it, what we learned, and what I'd tell you to watch for in your own systems.
Publicly available doesn't mean safe to pull right now
Open source is the backbone of most software. But should developers trust OSS? npm, PyPI, and Maven don't vet packages before publication, so "publicly available" doesn't automatically mean "safe to pull right now." A secure OSS posture is to trust the ecosystem but verify at ingestion: route packages and dependencies through a controlled layer that runs scanning, age checks, and malware detection before anything reaches a build.
Just ask AI to add OpenTelemetry to your code
OpenTelemetry instrumentation used to mean hours of manual work, wiring up metrics service by service. Now you can just ask for it. Tell an AI agent what you're trying to observe, something like "add OpenTelemetry so I can track this application's performance," and it turns that into an intent specification, then enriches your existing code with instrumentation to match. OpenTelemetry is open source and on GitHub. Pairing it with an AI agent that actually understands your codebase is what turns "add some metrics" into instrumentation that's useful.
Impossible Travel in Microsoft 365: Why the Alerts Cry Wolf
Impossible travel and new-country sign-in alerts are famously noisy. The reasons why, the difference between the Entra ID and SharePoint signals, and what separates a real account takeover from proxy egress.
Cut AI coding defects by 33% #mcpserver #aicoding #aiagents #grafana #aitools
We spend thousands of dollars "token maxing" and running endless debugging cycles just to walk our LLMs through a problem. But is the AI actually failing, or are we just withholding the right environment? Giving your AI assistant its own sandbox to test hypotheses might just be the missing link in your development workflow.
POV: your agent fixes the bug it just introduced
We intentionally introduced a bug into our app to see what would happen. The agent used the CircleCI MCP Server to detect the failed pipeline, diagnose the issue from the build logs, implement a fix, and keep iterating until CI was green.
GitKraken Desktop 12.4 Release: Multiple WIPs, Approve/Deny Agents, and more!
What if you could counterspell an agent action? GitKraken Desktop 12.4 pulls the whole AI agent workflow into one place, so you stay in the flow. Back in 12.0 we shipped Agent Sessions, where you kick off AI coding agents right inside the context of your repo. GitKraken 12.4 builds on that. What's new in 12.4: This release is not about handing more of your work to agents. It's about seeing everything they do, and deciding what actually changes.