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Emerging VPN Features Built for Faster Secure Connections

Long gone were the days when hardly anyone had heard of VPN (Virtual Private Network). Over the past couple of years, this tool has rapidly increased in popularity, which resulted in the emergence of a variety of different VPN service providers. Some of them provide only the most basic features, while others offer not only the most vital ones but also features that elevate your entire online experience.

How To Choose the Right Industrial Plate Chiller for Your Business

Choosing the right industrial plate chiller is crucial for the efficiency and profitability of your business operations. These systems play an essential role in cooling processes across various industries, from food and beverage to pharmaceuticals. Opting for an unsuitable chiller can lead to increased operational costs and compromised product quality. In this article, we will navigate the intricacies of selecting an industrial plate chiller that aligns perfectly with your business needs. Keep reading to discover the key considerations that will guide your decision.

How AC Drives Save Energy and Extend Equipment Lifespan

Many businesses are getting absolutely crushed by high energy costs and constantly dealing with equipment that breaks down way too often for comfort. The frustration of watching electric bills climb while motors and machinery wear out faster than they should is honestly driving a lot of facility managers crazy. Traditional motor control systems basically run everything at full blast whether you need that power or not.

Bringing Canonical Kubernetes to Sylva: a new chapter for European telco clouds

The telecommunications industry is undergoing its most significant transformation in decades. The move from vertically integrated, proprietary systems to disaggregated, cloud-native infrastructure has unlocked enormous potential for agility and innovation. Yet, for many operators, the challenge has been how to realize that potential while meeting the stringent performance, security, and interoperability requirements that telecom networks demand.

Empowering an MCP server with a telemetry pipeline

This blog was authored by Jason Bloomberg, Managing Director, Intellyx BV ‍ Observability depends upon telemetry – the data streaming from various applications, services, and systems that indicate their internal state in real-time. Various tools consume such telemetry to enable both operational and cybersecurity tasks.

How to Improve MariaDB Performance: Track Slow Queries with Logs and Metrics

Database latency rarely starts in your app layer because it’s almost always a query doing more work than it should. Metrics tell you when that happens, but slow-query logging tells you which statement did it and how. That’s gold for tracking down missing indexes, inefficient filters, or accidental full scans. Pair the logging with a some lightweight counter metrics, and you get both an early warning and a clear path to a fix.

Synthetic Monitoring for Vibe Coded Apps: Why You Need It

Not all software is the product of rigid planning, extensive documentation, and carefully designed test pipelines. Some of it emerges in bursts of intuition, created by small teams or individuals who prioritize momentum over process. This is what many engineers call vibe coding: development driven by flow and creativity, where the goal is to get something working quickly rather than ensuring every edge case is accounted for.

Landing Page Monitoring: Why, When and How to Do It Right

Landing pages are the lifeblood of modern marketing campaigns. They’re not the homepage, not the product catalog, not the blog—they’re the sharp end of the funnel where traffic from ads, emails, and social clicks is supposed to turn into revenue. A landing page is where a $50,000 media buy either pays off or evaporates.

Tiger teams: How we tackle urgent, cross-functional challenges at Grafana Labs

A year ago, we hit a wall. Our Grafana OSS releases were excruciating to execute. The process was confusing and hard to follow, security patches were non-trivial, and many engineering hours were lost to an overly manual process. We needed to move fast, cut through ambiguity, and pull in just the right people without waiting on roadmaps or org charts.

Understanding dbt: basics and best practices

Data Build Tool (dbt) is an open source analytics engineering framework that enables teams to transform raw data that has been loaded into a warehouse like Snowflake, BigQuery, Redshift, or Databricks using SQL-based workflows. dbt is available in two main forms: dbt Core, the free and open source CLI tool, and dbt Cloud, a managed platform that adds scheduling, UI support, collaboration tools, and native integrations.