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Invisible Automation: The Best Tools Are The Ones You Forget About

I recently had a conversation with one of our customers at AWS re:Invent that made me rethink the true value of automation. This customer told me, “You’ve automated so much for us that we almost forget about Qovery. Nobody even asks how to do things anymore.” That statement stuck with me.

HPC Configuration: How Configuration Management Can Enhance AI Workload Efficiency

High-performance computing (HPC) configuration has become paramount for AI workloads. Companies investing in AI workloads often find themselves with predictable problems: Lots of nodes that are hard to integrate and harder to manage together, under-utilized resources, deployment struggles, inconsistent configurations, and drift.

The flight plan that brought UK airspace to its knees

On August 28th, 2023—right in the middle of a UK public holiday—an issue with the UK’s air traffic control systems caused chaos across the country. The culprit? An entirely valid flight plan that hit an edge case in the processing software, partly because it contained a pair of duplicate airport codes.

Here Come dbForge Tools for PostgreSQL 3.2: Extended Connectivity, Enhanced Code Completion, Smart Data Generators, and More

We’ve got another big update! This time it’s all about PostgreSQL; the entire product line has been polished and augmented to make your experience with PostgreSQL fuller in every way—this includes new data sources, improved suggestions, a slew of new smart data generators, and quite a few other tricks to make your daily work easy as ever. Without further ado, let’s check everything feature by feature!

Meet Our New Python Connectors for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Excel Online, and Google Sheets

Here comes the long-awaited release of three new Python Connectors for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Excel Online, and Google Sheets. These Connectors are designed to simplify data integration and maximize productivity for developers working with these platforms. From now on, it will be extremely easy to connect Python applications directly to Dynamics 365 Business Central, Excel Online, and Google Sheets, enabling accurate create, read, update, and delete operations on stored data.

Third-party secrets are now supported in Bitbucket Pipelines

Bitbucket Pipelines is excited to announce support for CI/CD third-party secrets – a powerful new feature that enables you to seamlessly retrieve secrets directly from your preferred secret store. This enhancement ensures your workflows remain efficient and secure. Now, you can set up your own integration and customize the utilization of your secrets to suit your needs.

Release Roundup November 2024: Reliability in the serverless and AI era

2024 is coming to a close, and while many teams are slowing down in preparation for the holidays, we’ve been cooking up tons of new features. We’ve extended our platform support to the Istio service mesh, added a brand new experiment type for testing artificial intelligence (AI) and large language model (LLM) workloads, and made it easier to onboard Kubernetes clusters. We’ve also made our Linux and Windows agents more robust and performant.

Now in private beta: Gremlin Service Mesh Extension

Service meshes like Istio have become an essential way to securely and reliably distribute network traffic, especially with ephemeral, service-based architectures such as Kubernetes. However, their constantly shifting nature can interfere with targeting specific services for resilience tests. Infrastructure-based testing is designed to target specific IP addresses, allowing precision testing of applications, VMs, and nodes.