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The Parquet Files: An Entertaining Guide to Columnar Storage

Look, I know what you're thinking. Another article about file formats? Really? You'd rather be debugging that mysterious production issue or arguing about tabs versus spaces. But hear me out for a minute. Last week, I was happily hunting through our logs data - you know, the usual terabytes of events that compliance keeps asking for - when our Head of Finance dropped by. "Hey, why is our logging bill so high?" Narrator: And thus began our hero's journey into the world of file formats.

Using Alternatives for the LIMIT Clause in SQL Server

In database management, efficient limiting of query results is crucial for optimizing performance and ensuring the retrieval of relevant data. Many SQL database systems, such as MySQL and PostgreSQL, utilize the LIMIT clause to specify the number of records a query returns. However, SQL Server doesn’t support the LIMIT clause, opting instead for alternatives like TOP, OFFSET-FETCH, and SET ROWCOUNT.

Streamline your IT operations: Harness the power of Ansible Automation Platform with OpManager

ManageEngine OpManager now integrates with Ansible, an open-source automation tool, enhancing its network monitoring capabilities with Ansible’s powerful automation features. This integration enables IT teams to automate routine tasks such as incident response and configuration management, reducing the need for manual intervention and providing a more efficient, streamlined approach to maintaining network reliability and improving overall operational performance.

Concept Demo: Filtering and alerting restricted materials

In this demo, we’re sharing a conceptual demo showcasing solutions that support our customers in their data loss prevention efforts. We’re working on new capabilities to block, filter, and alert restricted content from being shared in channels or teams with the wrong access levels. Data loss prevention is crucial for our customers in highly secure environments and consequences are severe if standards aren’t followed or if a data spill occur. To support our customers we’re exploring ways to prevent human error that could lead to data spillage.

Revolutionize Your Workflow: The Power of Event-Driven Ansible!

Discover the future of IT automation with Fabio Alessandro Locati in his session from Civo Navigate Europe 2024 on Event-Driven Ansible! In today's complex IT environments, automating tasks and processes is more crucial than ever. This session introduces the powerful new feature of Ansible that allows you to automate IT tasks based on real-time events in your environment.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC): A Guide for DevOps & Developers

Managing IT infrastructure has traditionally been a complex, manual process prone to inefficiencies and human errors. IaC directly addresses these challenges by automating the setup and management of IT infrastructure through code. This approach helps to resolve common infrastructure management problems like lengthy deployment times, configuration drift, and inconsistent configurations.

Charmed Kubeflow vs Kubeflow

Kubeflow is an open source MLOps platform that is designed to enable organizations to scale their ML initiatives and automate their workloads. It is a cloud-native solution that helps developers run the entire machine learning lifecycle within a single solution on Kubernetes. It can be used to develop, optimize and deploy models. This blog will walk you through the benefits of using an official distribution of the Kubeflow project.

How Fintech Businesses Execute Infrastructure Monitoring

Infrastructure monitoring is necessary for finance companies. Whether running a small fintech startup or managing systems for a global bank, having secure, reliable tools to monitor and manage your infrastructure and applications is fundamental for the success and security of your business. This article covers some common monitoring use cases for financial companies and how you can get the metrics you need with an agent. Try signing up for a free trial today!

Rolling your own DevOps metrics

The principle of continuous improvement is central to the practice of observability. Naturally, within the data-driven philosophy of DevOps this implies an ongoing cycle of acting, measuring and improving. For many teams, the classic four DORA metrics are seen as a gold standard. As I discussed in a previous article, whilst DORA metrics are a great starting point for assessing your agile capabilities, they are not necessarily definitive.

Kubernetes Migration: Tips and Best Practises

Are you considering migrating to Kubernetes but worried about the potential complexities? Well, you are not alone. Transitioning to Kubernetes brings unparalleled scalability and resilience for containerized applications, but it also introduces technical challenges that can overwhelm unprepared teams. Let's go through proven strategies to make the Kubernetes migration journey smoother, from planning and dependency mapping to using automation tools that reduce errors.