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PostgreSQL Explain Plans in AWS Aurora

I recently wrote about a project I created on AWS Aurora PostgreSQL where I'm capturing APRS data from a radio. I focused on the ease of use, getting a database, some Lambda Functions, and a few schedulers working together with a web page. It was easy. However, I'd like to focus on a slightly different area now, performance.

JFrog Takes Software Resilience to the Next Level with 99.99% Uptime SLA

Software delivery is no longer a back-office function; it’s the heartbeat of the modern enterprise. While a 99.9% uptime SLA for essential software delivery services works for many, the acceleration of software velocity has made the “three-nines” benchmark a possible liability. For high performing software organizations, and those delivering critical services, nine hours of annual downtime represents a dangerous gap in productivity and security.

Code Reviews Done Right: The Framework That Stops Bugs Before Production

Learn code review best practices from experienced developer Shashi Lo at GitKon 2025. Discover how to review pull requests effectively, give constructive feedback using the nit vs. non-nit framework, and leverage AI tools like CodeRabbit and GitHub Copilot to catch bugs humans miss. Shashi Lo shares 20+ years of code review philosophy, demonstrating real PR reviews on his Secret Santa app and showing exactly what makes thorough code review essential for shipping production-ready code.

Zero Ticket Video Series - Slow Computer Troubleshooting

“My computer is running slow.” It’s one of the most common service desk tickets. It’s also one of the most automatable. In this episode of the Zero Ticket Video Series, we demonstrate how RITA, Resolve’s AI-powered IT agent, autonomously diagnoses and resolves a slow laptop issue in real time, directly within Microsoft Teams. Watch as RITA: No ticket queues. No manual triage. No escalations.

Best SQL Server ODBC Drivers 2026

Most database problems get blamed on queries, schemas, or infrastructure, and rarely on SQL Server ODBC drivers. Fair enough, those components often break. But in many cases, the real culprit is the connection layer itself. Poor drivers can lead to security gaps, performance hits, cloud connection struggles, Unicode issues, or incompatibility across platforms and modern SQL Server versions.

Getting started with Gemini and CircleCI

AI coding assistants like Gemini are changing how developers write code. They can generate entire functions, debug tricky issues, and help you move faster than ever before. But with that speed comes a new challenge: how do you make sure AI-generated code actually works? AI assistants are powerful, but they’re not perfect. They can introduce subtle bugs, miss edge cases, or generate code that breaks existing functionality. That’s where CI (continuous integration) comes in.

The path to self-healing: Re-architecting for massive scale on kubernetes

In the world of network assurance, even a few seconds of delay can result in significant business losses. In this session from Civo Navigate India, Dr. Shivananda R Poojara (Head of Cloud Business Unit, Airowire Networks) explains how his team dismantled a massive monolithic service stack and rebuilt it for a high-performance, cloud-native era in just 75 days.

How likely is a man-in-the-middle attack?

Security vendors love the man-in-the-middle attack. It’s the boogeyman of every TLS marketing page. Some shadowy figure intercepting your traffic, reading your secrets, stealing your data. A man-in-the-middle attack is when an attacker positions themselves between two parties on a network to intercept the traffic flowing between them. In the context of TLS, that means an attacker who can present a valid certificate can read everything in plaintext and proxy it on to the real server.