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What Are SQL Server Agent Jobs: Guide With Examples

Behind every reliable dashboard and morning report stands a system of accountability: SQL Server Agent jobs. They’re what keeps backups on time, analytics flowing, and data pipelines steady when everything else moves fast. However, to sustain that reliability, SQL Server Agent must operate with precision at scale.

Bloom filters: the niche trick behind a 16× faster API

This post is a deep dive into how we improved the P95 latency of an API endpoint from 5s to 0.3s using a niche little computer science trick called a bloom filter. We’ll cover why the endpoint was slow, the options we considered to make it fast and how we decided between them, and how it all works under the hood.

LogicMonitor Named to CRN's 2025 Edge Computing 100: Proof That the Edge Finally Has Some Brains

Edge computing has been the buzzword of the decade. Everyone is talking about pushing intelligence closer to the edge, but most of that intelligence still needs a map and a flashlight. This week, CRN named LogicMonitor to its 2025 Edge Computing 100, recognizing companies that are actually doing something useful at the edge instead of just hyping it. We are honored. We are also a little amused.

Reimagining software delivery with AI-powered workflows in Jira & Bitbucket

If you’re like most developers, you know that writing code isn’t the bottleneck anymore. AI has made it faster than ever, and chances are you’re already using it. Yet, delivering software is still complex because of everything else you have to manage: fixing vulnerabilities, reducing tech debt, cleaning up feature flags, ensuring test coverage, writing documentation, and the list goes on. That’s why we built Rovo Dev, a context-aware AI agent for developers.

Elastic named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Observability Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment

We're proud to share that Elastic has been named a Leader in the IDC MarketScape: Worldwide Observability Platforms 2025 Vendor Assessment (doc, November 2025). We believe this recognition validates our ongoing mission: to deliver an observability platform that is open, extensible, and AI-driven to power full-stack observability that unifies operational and business data at scale, allowing SRE teams to move from detect and resolve problems faster.

Expanding Access, Not Risk: Using the Read-Only Role in Honeycomb Teams

Observability works best when everyone who needs visibility can get it without the risk of unintentional changes. Honeycomb’s role-based access control system helps teams strike that balance with a selection of Owner, Member, and Read-Only member roles. This control gives teams more flexibility in how they share access across their organization, helping you scale visibility safely without sacrificing control.

Beyond Isolated AI: How the Selector MCP Server Connects Agents, Context, and Action

AI in network operations is evolving faster than ever. But while new models and agents are emerging almost daily, they’re often working alone, with each confined to its own context, data, and domain. One model might analyze telemetry, another handles automation scripts, and a third generates summaries or recommendations. Each model might be intelligent on its own, but without a way to share context, they end up thinking in isolation, limiting what they can achieve together.

Azure Synapse Explained: Analytics And Business Value

Traditionally, companies had to use separate tools for ETL, data storage, and analytics. Often, this resulted in slow, complex, and expensive data workflows A good example is PwC’s Deals, Insights & Analytics (DIA) team, which faced similar challenges. According to Microsoft, bespoke solutions often took months to build and were difficult to merge, slowing projects and driving up costs. That changed when PwC adopted Azure Synapse Analytics. The result?

A CISO's preview of open source and cybersecurity trends in 2026 and beyond

Open source has come a long way. Recently I was watching a keynote address by our founder, Mark Shuttleworth, in which he discussed his vision for Ubuntu to provide quality support and security maintenance across the broad open source ecosystem, and it made me reflect on how far the open source software (OSS) community has come. Indeed, when looking at today’s interoperable open source landscape, the fragmented, disconnected landscape of the past seems like another planet.

Jira Service Management (JSM) Review for Incident Management (2025)

Atlassian is shutting down OpsGenie. New sales already stopped on June 4, 2025, and the platform will be completely offline by April 5, 2027. As an OpsGenie user, you now face a critical decision: Migrate to Jira Service Management (JSM), Atlassian’s recommended path, or choose a different solution. And if you’re not sure JSM is the right fit for your team’s incident management needs, this review will help you decide. I signed up for JSM and put it through real-world testing.