Cloud Rightsizing: How To Eliminate Waste In 2026
Cloud rightsizing matches resources to actual workload demand. Learn to find overprovisioned instances, cut waste, and automate savings.
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How to find the PII hiding in your database
You’ve masked your database. You’re confident you’ve covered all your PII. But not all of it lives where you’d expect it to. AI Classification, Redgate's data scanning capability, automatically catches sensitive data before it reaches your developers, your test environments, or your auditors.
"Deployment Visibility for Platform Teams | ENV Zero Topic Talk"
Welcome to another ENV Zero Topic Talk! Today, we discuss the importance of deployment visibility for platform teams. In today's fast-paced development environment, real-time insights into the deployment pipeline are crucial to ensure smooth operations, manage risks, and maintain control. ENV Zero provides comprehensive deployment visibility, allowing teams to track every stage from code commit to post-deployment monitoring. With our intuitive dashboard, platform teams can identify bottlenecks, resolve issues faster, and optimize resource management for quicker, more stable deployments.
From GIGO to Digital Twin: How DCIM G2 Cleans Up Your Data Center Data Quality
“Garbage in, garbage out.” Everyone who has ever worked in computing or other data-adjacent fields has heard this adage at least once. This phrase or acronym (GIGO) reflects the fundamental concept in both computing and data governance that the quality of your data is the critical determinant of successful results in any system, regardless of whether your focus is IT or OT.
Secrets Management: Get Credentials Out of Your Netdata Configuration Files
If you’re running Netdata collectors that connect to databases, APIs, or other authenticated services, there’s a good chance you have passwords sitting in plain-text configuration files right now. It works, but it’s the kind of thing that makes security teams nervous and makes credential rotation painful. Every password change means editing config files and restarting collectors.
AppSignal x Hatchbox: Affordable Hosting, Full Visibility
Affordable hosting has always been a puzzle. Heroku made deploying Rails apps simple, but with Salesforce at the helm, active development has stalled. Many developers are left wondering what comes next, locked into a platform that is no longer moving forward. Chris, the founder of GoRails, felt that same frustration. That is why he built Hatchbox. Hatchbox handles your deployments, runs on servers you own, and keeps costs predictable. No dyno management, no add-on sprawl.
Why your ecommerce dev team ships slower than your competitors (and how to fix it)
Key takeaway: Development velocity in e-commerce is often throttled not by headcount, but by invisible infrastructure friction that forces developers to spend time on environment management and deployment pipelines instead of shipping revenue-generating features. Ecommerce teams rarely think they have an infrastructure problem.
An introduction to the GitOps Catalog
One of the challenges teams face as their platforms grow is how to standardize what gets deployed without slowing teams down. The GitOps Catalog from Konstruct is designed to solve this by providing a consistent way to distribute reusable infrastructure modules, application components, and full environment stacks across clusters. At a glance, it looks like a templating system.
Ansible Conditionals: Complete Guide to when Statements [2026]
Last updated: April 2026 Playbooks that run every task every time aren't really automation. They're scripts. Real playbooks make decisions: only restart a service when its config changed, only install a package on Debian hosts, only send an alert when a prior task failed. That decision-making comes from Ansible conditionals.
Balancing DevOps Speed and Cybersecurity: Where Risks Arise
In modern development, speed is one of the primary competitive advantages. Teams release new versions daily, infrastructure is deployed in minutes, and the pipeline from commit to production keeps getting shorter. This creates real business value - but it is also an area where security risks quietly accumulate. The problem is not that DevOps teams ignore security. More often, they are forced to choose between speed and thorough validation. And this choice, made dozens of times each week, gradually builds up security technical debt that sooner or later turns into a real incident.