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dotConnect Universal - Unified Database Access for .NET Apps

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When AWS Goes Down: What It Means For Your Cloud Costs

A global outage at Amazon Web Services (AWS) did more than knock popular apps offline. It laid bare the cost risks embedded in many cloud architectures. As services fail, the hidden costs of high availability, from redundancy planning to recovery operations, often multiply. For cloud cost leaders, this isn’t an issue of uptime; it’s a visibility and budget-shock issue. It’s a key reminder that architecting for resilience involves difficult trade-offs.

Regain Control and Visibility of All IT Assets Across Your Organization

When you don’t have reliable processes for managing IT assets, you can quickly lose control. Asset inventories lose their accuracy, data across tools like CMDBs and spreadsheets stops matching reality, and no one can say with confidence what equipment is in use, where it’s located, how it’s connected, and whether it’s still needed. For data center professionals, a lack of asset visibility creates real risks.

Protecting Production from a VP

The rise of AI coding assistants means new "developers" in many organizations. Your safety nets (and on ramps) need to be built with citizen developers in mind. Innovation is moving faster than ever. That’s great. With AI code generation accelerating professional developers and the rise of "citizen developers" thanks to tools like vibe-coding, we’re seeing more code written today than ever before.

7 Ways Your Incident Management Just Got a Boost (New Feature Rundown)

All the things you may have missed that will make your incident management smarter, faster, and simply easier. We ship updates every week because we want you to get the most out of FireHydrant. But we also know it's hard to stay up to date and read every week's changelog (even though we know reading changelogs is the highlight of your week ).

Experimenting With Different Scripts

It all began when I spun up an AWS t4g.small burstable instance for a side project. Nothing unusual just another day in the cloud. But the moment I connected through SSH, something caught my eye. The system greeted me with a temperature reading of -273.5°C. Wait… what? That’s 0 Kelvin, the point where atomic motion completely stops. In other words, absolute zero , a state that’s theoretically impossible for anything to operate in.

What is autonomous validation? The future of CI/CD in the AI era

Over the past decade, CI/CD has redefined how modern software is built and shipped. CircleCI has been a leader in that transformation, working alongside the world’s best engineering teams to build a reliable foundation for continuous delivery at scale. Today, those foundations are under new pressure as AI reshapes every aspect of the delivery cycle. Developers are producing more change with less certainty about what those changes touch.

Zero Ticket Video Series with Resolve: Automating License Assign with RITA

See RITA, Resolve’s intelligent IT automation agent, in action as it handles one of IT’s most repetitive tasks: assigning and removing licenses. In this quick demo, RITA interprets a plain-language request, validates user details, and executes the license assignment automatically; no human intervention needed. Then, watch how just as easily it removes a license, showcasing true end-to-end automation that saves time, eliminates manual errors, and frees IT teams to focus on higher-value work.