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Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) customers can now seamlessly purchase Console Connect services directly from the OCI Marketplace using Oracle Universal Credits. As the first FastConnect partner to offer services on the Oracle Marketplace, Console Connect provides a suite of cloud connectivity solutions designed to enhance the speed, reliability, and performance of data connections to Oracle Cloud.

Oracle maintains its top-ranking spot; persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake highlight Q1 2025 rankings analysis. DB-Engines is today sharing Q1 analysis of the database industry rankings and top climbers. While Oracle has maintained its top-ranking spot as the most popular database for several years, we are seeing persistent growth trends from PostgreSQL and Snowflake, which has broken through to sixth place for the first time this quarter, overtaking Redis.

In the world of containerization, understanding what's happening under the hood during image builds can mean the difference between smooth deployments and frustrating debugging sessions. Docker build logs are your window into this process, offering crucial insights that help you optimize builds, troubleshoot errors, and maintain robust container infrastructure.

In today’s distributed systems world, you need clear visibility into logs, metrics, and everything in between to keep systems healthy and reliable. That’s where the ELK Stack and Grafana work well together—each solving a different part of the observability puzzle. ELK handles the heavy lifting of log collection and processing. Grafana adds intuitive dashboards and powerful visualizations.

The Model Context Protocol (MCP) is rapidly becoming the connective tissue for agentic AI systems and IDE tooling. Whether you’re building a dev tool that integrates with LLMs or enabling a context-aware API backend, standing up an MCP server is a rite of passage. But MCP is still in its early days and there are some sharp edges. Here are four practical shortcuts to fast-track your MCP server development so you can skip the boilerplate and get to the good stuff: intelligent tooling.

CI/CD pipelines don’t wait. When traffic surges and your artifact platform can’t keep up, it’s not just a few slow requests: builds fail, deploys become backlogged, and engineers lose confidence. We’ve seen it all: 502s from overloaded VMs, minutes-long pulls, and pipelines grinding to a halt. That’s why we built Cloudsmith to scale by default; no one should have to firefight with their registry at 2 a.m.

Modern application architectures have evolved from simple monoliths to complex distributed systems spanning multiple environments. This evolution has transformed how we approach monitoring and troubleshooting. Traditional monitoring methods that focus solely on uptime and basic health checks are no longer sufficient for understanding system behavior in cloud-native environments.