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In modern software architecture, applications aren't just getting bigger—they're getting more distributed. With microservices, serverless functions, and containers running across multiple environments, understanding what's happening inside your systems can feel like trying to track a single raindrop in a storm. That's where traces and spans come in. These observability tools aren't just buzzwords—they're your secret weapon for making sense of complex distributed systems.

Within the realms of microservices and distributed systems, gRPC has emerged as a cornerstone technology. Its adoption by tech giants like Google, Netflix, and Square underscores its capability to facilitate high-performance, scalable inter-service communication. Built as a modern take on the traditional Remote Procedure Call (RPC) paradigm, gRPC enables services, potentially written in different languages, to communicate efficiently and reliably across networks.

The SQL Server PowerShell module is a set of tools that enable the use of PowerShell for SQL Server instances, databases, and objects.

Effective vulnerability management has become a growing priority for organizations. Aided in part by AI, threats and vulnerabilities grow in speed and sophistication while IT environments become more complex. The skill gap for cybersecurity keeps widening (further worsened by a sprawling toolkit), exposing critical systems to exploitation. Managing secure infrastructure manually just isn’t possible at the scale and speed today’s enterprises demand.

Learn how a cybersecurity startup cut cloud costs by 95%, automated onboarding, and scaled effortlessly by migrating from EC2 to a fully serverless architecture. Takeaways When a fast-growing cybersecurity startup hit the limits of its monolithic cloud setup, it didn’t just need an upgrade – it needed a full re-architecture. The goal: eliminate surprise costs, automate customer onboarding, and build for scale. Here’s how a full serverless revamp, powered by Graviton, made that happen.

In February, we announced our support for Hex packages, which further solidified the JFrog Platform as the most universal package management solution. We’re excited to announce we’re continuing to build on our universality with our new official support of Chocolatey and PowerShell, which allows both technologies to be used with our NuGet repositories in JFrog Artifactory.

When systems span clouds, containers, and regions, knowing what’s happening under the hood is more than a nice-to-have—it’s critical. Traditional monitoring tools often fall short in these complex setups. That’s where distributed network monitoring steps in. This guide cuts through the noise to offer a clear, practical approach to keeping tabs on distributed systems—without drowning in dashboards or alert fatigue.

Detecting dependency vulnerabilities in a Gradle-based project is crucial because it prevents applications from using libraries (dependencies) with security holes. Imagine an application as a house. Each dependency, or library used in the project, is like building material (such as wood, glass, or bricks). If there’s a flawed or easily penetrable material, the house can become unsafe, such as being more vulnerable to thieves or collapsing during an earthquake.