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MongoDB’s flexibility and document-oriented nature have always stood out to me as its most compelling features, setting it apart from the strict schema constraints of traditional relational databases. This adaptability is a boon for application development, allowing for more dynamic data interactions that mirror real-world information complexities and freeing table schemas’ constraints.

At Qovery, we build our frontend using Nx and rely on the official nrwl/ci GitHub Actions. Our frontend requires third-party tokens during compile time, but we would like to avoid hardcoding them or using the.env file to define our tokens. The latter exposes our source code directly on GitHub, and even though it's not sensitive data, we don't want it to be easily scraped.

In the early 90s, it was easier—and more affordable—to register a domain name with the same as a company’s. Now, it requires other services to register it and keep it from potential competitors. Despite the process change, registering a domain name is still one of the most crucial aspects of supporting a business online. This blog details the behind-the-scenes processes on how domain names become accessible content to users, starting with what a Domain Name System (DNS) is.

Preparing for high-traffic scenarios is crucial for the success of any website. As your online presence grows, you'll inevitably face challenges associated with increased traffic. This article will discuss key strategies to effectively manage high web traffic and ensure your website maintains optimal performance.

So, you finally have Cribl Edge collecting Logs, Metrics, and Events from your Kubernetes clusters and scraping your Prometheus endpoints. This post will guide you in enriching your events and metrics to help you identify and spot trends or anomalies in the performance of your containers.

Every time I share a project using SaaS tools, someone inevitably responds that they could do the same thing on their own home server ‘for free.’ I mention this not because it is annoying, since I would never go on social media at all if annoying responses were allowed to change my behavior, but because I think it points to a basic misconception that still affects DevOps practitioners today: the refusal to accurately estimate the real costs of self-managed solutions.

Our ‘Global Microsoft Teams Performance Trends’ report revealed some very interesting facts about enterprise usage of Teams. Using insight drawn from hundreds of thousands of Teams users, we’ve figured out the issues that plague certain regions. Don’t worry, we haven’t just filed that under “important stuff for later”, we’ve created an action plan for your organization you use to make its Teams performance much better. Let’s dive straight in.