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The Ultimate Guide to Archiving Software

In today’s fast-paced digital world, businesses generate vast amounts of data every day. Managing this data efficiently is crucial for ensuring smooth operations and long-term success. That’s where archiving software comes into play. This article will break down what archiving software is, why it’s essential, and how it can benefit your organization. We’ll also take a closer look at Squirrel, an innovative archiving solution for SharePoint Online.

Our migration from Kubernetes Built-in NLB to ALB Controller

Working with Kubernetes Services is convenient, especially when you can deploy Load Balancers via cloud providers like AWS. At Qovery, we initially started with Kubernetes’ built-in Network Load Balancer (NLB). However, we decided to move to the AWS Load Balancer Controller (ALB Controller). In this article, I explain why we made this switch and how it benefits our infrastructure.

How to Use UniDAC and RAD Studio to Access Oracle Database

Developers using the RAD Studio environment frequently encounter challenges with database engines like Oracle. This happens particularly when they have to ensure compatibility and seamless data integration or struggle with matching Delphi data types to the ones used in a database. On the other hand, Universal Data Access Components can efficiently connect to and interact with different databases, including Oracle, without additional access layers or needing extra time to build tailored connectivity.

ITOps vs DevOps: Unveiling the Key Contrasts

In the recent few years, IT Operations (ITOps) and Development Operations (DevOps) are the two distinct practices that have gained much attention in the realm of Information Technology and software development. The purpose behind designing these practices was to improve efficiency and ensure seamless functioning across the organization’s IT infrastructure. Both might have certain similarities, but they differ in various aspects, such as roles, responsibilities, and methodologies.

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Deletion and Argo CD Finalizers but Were Afraid to Ask

Accidentally deleting an application is bad, but accidentally deleting all of them is a lot worse. In this post, I show you how to avoid issues like the following: Argo CD finalizers is a built-in Argo CD feature that confuses many new users and can even result in accidental deletion if you’re not careful. If you see a resource managed by Argo CD that was supposed to be deleted but isn’t, then you can almost certainly blame a finalizer.

How Canonical enables PCI-DSS compliance

Anyone who deals with online payments will have heard of PCI-DSS. The Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard is a comprehensive security control framework that is designed to keep payment card data safe from hackers and misuse. Merchants who accept debit or credit card payments (and service providers who process this information) will know this standard particularly well, as it’s a mandatory requirement for them to ply their trades.

AWS Auto Scaling 101: Tips For Success

Whether you’re growing rapidly and need to expand your infrastructure or demand has slowed and you need to scale down, AWS Auto Scaling can help. While manual scaling is time-intensive and costly, auto scaling is an automated process that adjusts capacity for predictable performance and costs. Auto scaling can help you optimize how your application is used and reduce wastage and optimize cloud spend.

Decoding the Digital Tapestry: The Imperative of Network Device Discovery

In the labyrinth of modern IT infrastructures, network device discovery emerges as a pivotal process, indispensable for maintaining oversight and control over increasingly intricate digital ecosystems. This analytical examination delves into the mechanics, significance.

MySQL Performance Monitoring Tools and the Most Important Metrics to Monitor

This article covers some of the most popular MySQL performance monitoring tools alongside the key performance metrics that can help improve and optimize query performance in MySQL databases. MySQL is an open-source relational database that a lot of users prefer to utilize in their work and daily operations due to the variety of storage engines it supports, its flexibility and high performance, strong data security, cost-effectiveness, easy management, and reliability.