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Chaos Engineering Training: Zonal, Regional Failures and SSL/TLS Certificates Expiration

Learn how to test your system's resilience against critical infrastructure failures. This tutorial demonstrates how to simulate zonal and regional outages to validate your high availability setup, plus how to test SSL/TLS certificate expiration scenarios. Essential for ensuring your applications can handle real-world failure conditions and maintain uptime during certificate-related issues.

C# Equivalent of the TINYINT Data Type in SQL

TINYINT is one of the simplest numeric data types you can ever work with in SQL databases. It stores small numeric values, saves space, and is commonly used for flags, statuses, and boolean-like fields. But the moment you bring C# into the picture, things get intriguing. There is no TINYINT keyword in C#, and no one-to-one mapping you can use. Instead, you are left asking an important question: What is the correct C# equivalent of the TINYINT data type in SQL?

Simplify Feature Flag Management with Harness FME and OpenFeature

Harness FME continues its investment in OpenFeature, building on our early support and adoption of the CNCF standard since 2022. Evaluate flags consistently across languages and environments, and integrate them seamlessly into your applications without modifying your code. Feature flags are table stakes for modern software development. They allow teams to ship features safely, test new functionality, and iterate quickly, all without re-deploying their applications.

Automating LLM application deployment with BentoML and CircleCI

Shipping application code, especially for LLM-based applications, can be a stressful and complex task. These applications demand intricate model management, careful resource allocation, and manual handling of dependency conflicts. Traditionally, preparing such applications for deployment involves integration tests, containerization, and updating image registries: all time-consuming manual steps. This is where an automated CI pipeline becomes invaluable.

DNS-PERSIST-01 validates a domain once to get certificates forever

With the ACME protocol, to issue a certificate you have to prove you control the domain. The CA gives you a challenge, you complete it, and they issue your cert. The trouble is that every validation method has tradeoffs. And as certificate lifetimes get shorter, those tradeoffs will get more painful. DNS-PERSIST-01 is a new approach coming in 2026 that trades proof-of-freshness for easier operations.

Troubleshoot faster with the GitLab Source Code integration in Datadog

Developers and SREs who rely on GitLab to develop their services often face significant friction when troubleshooting errors or fixing issues that degrade code quality. To understand the context of a problem, they resort to tab-hopping between observability tools and GitLab, connecting stack traces, spans, and profiles back to the right files and commits.