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The Journey to Zero Ticket IT with Agentic Automation

See how RITA, Resolve’s intelligent AI agent, instantly resolves IT issues before they become tickets. In this live demo, you'll get a front-row seat to how RITA automates routine service desk requests, helps technicians troubleshoot faster, and brings the Zero Ticket IT vision to life. Hosted by Ian Coppock and demoed by Derek Pascarella, this is automation in action.

Redgate Monitor Adds Support for Oracle Multitenant

Redgate Monitor now gives you full visibility into activity across Oracle Multitenant environments. With metrics and alerts at both the Container Database (CDB) and Pluggable Database (PDB) level, you can quickly pinpoint performance issues and ensure compliance. With the introduction of Oracle multitenant architecture in Oracle 12c, many teams began consolidating databases into a single Container database (CDB). This helped them to optimize resource usage and simplify patching.

DeepSeek Pricing: Models, How It Works, And Saving Tips

Some teams won’t touch DeepSeek because it’s Chinese. Others are quietly running pilots and rethinking how much reasoning and context they actually need, or can afford. For SaaS teams staring down runaway AI costs, DeepSeek’s mix of open-source freedom, massive context windows, and token rates 10–30X cheaper than OpenAI or Anthropic is tough to ignore. However, DeepSeek pricing comes with cache hits, cache misses, off-peak discounts, that September pricing shift, and more.

Automating GDPR compliance for web applications with CircleCI

Since 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliance has been an important milestone in the evolution of privacy laws for web application users across Europe. GDPR requires companies to obtain explicit user consent for data collection and processing, and only for specified, legitimate purposes. It’s a law based on principles of transparency and purpose limitation. This law applies to global companies dealing with EU citizen data, giving individuals control over personal data.

NHibernate Tutorial: Database-First & Model-First Using Visual ORM Designer

Learn how to create and configure an NHibernate model with Entity Developer — Devart’s powerful visual ORM designer for.NET. In this step-by-step tutorial, we’ll cover both Database-First and Model-First approaches, show how to update models, generate mappings and classes, and even produce SQL scripts directly from your model. Whether you’re using Visual Studio or working in VS Code, Entity Developer makes NHibernate development faster, easier, and more reliable.

dotConnect for SQLite: Fast .NET data access with ORM and encryption support

Supercharge your.NET applications with dotConnect for SQLite — the high-performance data provider trusted by thousands of developers. Whether you're building lightweight apps or enterprise-scale solutions, dotConnect delivers secure, encrypted access to SQLite with seamless Visual Studio integration, powerful ADO.NET architecture, and full ORM support, including Entity Framework Core. Chapters: Try it free for 30 days and see why thousands of developers trust dotConnect for SQLite in mission-critical environments.

Unprecedented industry turbulence: leading through change ft. Pat Kua, author of LevelUp newsletter

Engineering leadership has never been more challenging, or more critical. In this episode, Rob sits down with Pat Kua, seasoned technology leader, author of three books including Building Evolutionary Architectures, and creator of the popular Level Up newsletter for technical leaders.

Introducing 400G Ports

Discover why 400G is growing in popularity across industries, and how you can deploy it with Megaport. The Megaport team is excited to introduce 400G ports. This addition to our network offering gives enterprises, cloud builders, and service providers access to ultra-high bandwidth on demand, making it easier than ever to interconnect clouds, data centers, and services at massive scale. If your IT team is already using 100G bandwidth, the need for 400G might creep up more quickly than you think.

A Practical Guide to Python Application Performance Monitoring (APM)

When your Python app starts slowing down, maybe queries are taking longer, memory keeps creeping up, or API calls are lagging—basic server metrics won’t tell you why. You need to see what’s happening inside the application itself. That’s the role of Application Performance Monitoring (APM). It gives you a breakdown of database queries, external API calls, memory usage, error rates, and more, so you can connect the dots between code and performance.