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Amazon SQS Metrics: Monitor, Debug, and Optimize Your Message Queues

Message queues quietly take care of a lot—buffering workloads, smoothing traffic spikes, and keeping services connected. But they don’t always get much attention until something feels off. Amazon SQS offers a solid set of metrics to help you understand how your queues are doing, whether you’re scaling well or nearing limits. This blog breaks down the key SQS metrics: where to find them, what they mean, and how to respond when things start to shift.

How to Configure Docker's Shared Memory Size (/dev/shm)

Your Node.js app runs fine on your machine. But inside Docker? You start getting weird crashes—ENOSPC: no space left on device. Chrome headless tests fail out of nowhere. PostgreSQL throws shared memory errors under load. The problem? It’s probably /dev/shm, the shared memory volume Docker sets up by default. Most containers get just 64MB of space here.

Navigating Shopware logs and slow pages in a real world scenario

A Shopware store goes from smooth to sluggish—pages take 10 seconds to load, even longer in some cases. What happened? In this post, we tell the true story of how one overlooked plugin setting nearly collapsed a storefront, and how it was resolved using native tools. If you’re shipping code in Shopware without clear performance observability, this is your wake-up call. Everything was working, until it wasn’t.

Enterprise Drupal: Why hosting all your apps on one platform matters

For many enterprises, Drupal has been the backbone of their web operations for years. It’s a battle-tested CMS that handles complex content needs with elegance. But business needs have evolved. Today, it’s rare for a company to rely only on Drupal. They are spinning up Python APIs, .NET backend services, Node.js apps, Java microservices — expanding their digital ecosystems around Drupal’s core.

SwiftPM, CocoaPods, and the Future of Enterprise Development for Apple Platforms

Swift is the default and preferred language for developing applications within the Apple ecosystem. The Swift Package Manager (SwiftPM) has become the de-facto dependency manager for Swift, enabling developers to share and reuse code effortlessly. While its elegance lies in its simplicity, there’s a common concern about integrating SwiftPM into robust, enterprise-grade development workflows. This is where JFrog Artifactory shines.

GPU Powerhouse: Scaling an AI Cloud in the Heart of Europe

The AI revolution needs more than models - it needs massive infrastructure. And Julien Gauthier is building it. In this episode of Uplink, Julien, CEO of Arkane Cloud, joins host Michael Reid to unpack how his company scaled from 3D rendering and gaming to delivering GPU cloud services for AI workloads across the globe. We explore how Arkane built a 1,000-GPU cluster in Paris (with capacity for 6,000), the rise of inference workloads in Europe, and the real-world engineering and business challenges of deploying high-density infrastructure - including cutting-edge liquid cooling handling 135kW per cabinet.

Puppet Infra Assistant: AI-Powered Natural Language Queries

Finding critical infrastructure insights shouldn't be a game of hide-and-seek. The new AI-powered Infra Assistant is a natural language interface that allows users of any skill level to chat with Puppet data and services for quick insights and reporting on infrastructure state. You don't need any Puppet experience to get started; it's safe to use in your infrastructure; and it's secured with explicit opt-in and robust role-based access control.

Setup Guide: Infra Assistant for Natural Language Puppet Queries

Learn how to get started with Puppet Infra Assistant quickly with a step-by-step guide and examples. Infra Assistant makes it easier to interact with Puppet data and services with a natural language interface. It's "bring your own key" with support for OpenAI and Azure OpenAI (with more coming soon), and secured with opt-in requirements and role-based access control.

Windows VPS Hosting in Practice: Insights from the Kamatera Platform

When diving into the world of Windows VPS hosting, it's essential to choose a provider that offers robust performance, flexibility, and reliability. Kamatera stands out as a dominant player in this domain, providing an expansive suite of features tailored to enhance user experiences and system capabilities. By harnessing the full potential of Kamatera's platform, you can streamline your digital operations, ensuring they are both efficient and effective.

11 Best AI Coding Assistants: Top Tools Every Developer Needs in 2025

You’ve heard it before: ‘AI coding assistants aren’t here to replace you.’ And yes, it’s true, they’re not. They’re here to save your brain from 3 AM logic loops and the same bug fixes you’ve solved countless times. As application and database systems become more complex and timelines shrink, forward-thinking developers, data analysts, and DBAs are turning to these tools.