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The latest News and Information on DevOps, CI/CD, Automation and related technologies.

Integrating Gremlin with your observability tools

Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. To get the most value out of Chaos Engineering and reliability testing, you need a way to observe your service’s behavior. Observability tools offer insight into how your systems are performing, but observability on its own isn’t enough. You need a way to monitor your systems while testing their reliability so you can determine whether your service passed or failed a test.

How we handle sensitive data in BigQuery

As a provider of incident management software, we at incident.io manage sensitive data regarding our customers. This includes Personally Identifiable Information (PII) about their employees, such as emails, first names, and last names, as well as confidential details regarding customer incidents, such as names and summaries. Consequently, we approach the management of this data with a great deal of care.

The Ultimate Guide for Enterprise DevOps

Speed and reliability in incident management have always been the formula for many businesses’ success. But what happens when this already demanding workflow needs to be done at scale? The answer is adopting enterprise DevOps methodologies to scale operations efficiently. DevOps benefits are magnified when they are correctly scaled across an entire enterprise. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll explore enterprise DevOps’s fundamental principles, challenges, and components.

Announcing HAProxy Enterprise 3.0

HAProxy Enterprise 3.0 is now available. This release extends HAProxy Enterprise’s legendary performance and flexibility and builds upon its cornerstone features. The HAProxy Enterprise WAF is even more powerful, the Global Profiling Engine is more dynamic and performant, UDP load balancing is simpler and more observable, HTTPS performance is improved, and we have added new CAPTCHA and SAML single sign-on modules.

If it can happen to Mark Cuban, it can happen to you and your organization

In today's digital age, we rely on our phones and laptops as our central hub for communication. This is true in both our business and personal lives. However, recent events have shown that no one is immune to cyber-attacks. In this blog post, we highlight a recent incident involving billionaire Mark Cuban (Dallas Mavericks, Shark Tank) and how his email account was hacked via his phone. It serves as stark reminder that no one (or business) is immune.

Navigating multi-cloud database deployments with MySQL for maximum uptime

Public cloud providers offer convenient services for database deployments. However, depending solely on a single provider’s database-as-a-service can result in vendor lock-in and reduce your system’s resilience against widespread outages affecting the provider. Instead, explore our approach to deploying MySQL across multiple clouds. A multi-cloud database strategy enables you to retain control of your infrastructure while enhancing overall resiliency and leveraging the unique strengths of each cloud provider.

How to Resolve the Disabled State Issue in Azure Logic App Standard?

In this video, Azure MVP Michael Stephenson introduces the auto-correct feature that automatically restores a disabled Logic App to its running state. Watch as Michael demonstrates how to monitor the app’s status, simulating the disabling process. The system detects the change, triggers alerts, and automatically reactivates the app, ensuring uninterrupted operation. Michael highlights the value of this feature in keeping Logic Apps running smoothly, even if they are accidentally turned off.

How to Restore a SQL Server 2019 Backup on a SQL Server 2017 Instance

Restoring a database backup directly from a newer version of SQL Server to an older one fails or causes incompatibility errors. For example, a backup created on SQL Server 2019 cannot typically be restored on a SQL Server 2017 instance. Since a direct downgrade isn’t possible, we’ll demonstrate alternative methods to migrate a SQL Server database from 2019 to 2017.

What's New in Devart ODBC Drivers: Extended Compatibility, Updated SQL Engines, and Further Enhancements

Here comes an update of Devart ODBC Drivers, our high-performance connectivity solutions that enable access to a variety of data sources from ODBC-compliant reporting, analytics, BI, and ETL tools on both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows, macOS, and Linux. Our Drivers fully support standard ODBC API functions and data types, grant easy and secure access to live data from 80+ sources, and can be integrated with 100+ third-party tools.