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The database professional of the future: headlines from Redgate's Keynote at PASS Data Community Summit 2025

Redgate took the main stage earlier today to open PASS Data Community Summit with our keynote, where we shared our vision for the future of the database development experience – one driven by speed, safety, and the intelligent use of AI. As data estates grow in scale and complexity, and as organizations push to deliver software faster than ever, the role of the database is undergoing significant change.

OTel Updates: Complex Attributes Now Supported Across All Signals

OpenTelemetry now supports maps, heterogeneous arrays, and byte arrays across all signals. Here’s where these new types shine — and where simple primitives still fit naturally. If you’ve been working with OpenTelemetry for a while, you’re likely familiar with the straightforward key-value approach to attributes. It’s simple, fast, and works well with how most telemetry backends store, index, and query data.

What is AWS Fargate for Amazon ECS?

As cloud applications moved from VMs to containers and then to microservices, the amount of background work needed to keep everything running grew just as quickly. You gain speed and flexibility, but you also end up managing clusters, scaling rules, and capacity choices that don’t really add to the product you’re building. AWS Fargate steps in right there. It lets you run your ECS tasks without looking after any servers at all.

When to Move From Public Internet to Private Connectivity

Struggling with latency, congestion, or compliance issues? Discover when it’s time to move from public internet to private connectivity. Network operations have never demanded more than they do now, leading many network managers to question whether the public internet is enough. While many organizations begin their network journey with VPNs over the public internet, they often bump into limitations quickly and begin exploring the natural next step – private connectivity.

Get more from your AI chief of staff with these prompts for engineering leaders

Engineering leaders face a constant barrage of questions that pull them away from strategic work. A team lead asks about scorecard compliance. A PM wants a status update on a migration. Someone needs incident trend data for a quarterly review. Each question is reasonable. Each requires context switching, digging through dashboards, or pinging someone on your team for a report. What if you could just ask?

Fast and Clear Presentations for Tech Teams: Saving Time While Explaining Complexity

We've all been there. Technical complexity is our daily bread, but explaining it? That's where things get messy. Technical presentations shouldn't feel like translating ancient hieroglyphs. Yet here we are, drowning audiences in diagrams that look like subway maps. The irony? We build systems for clarity and efficiency, then create presentations that achieve neither. Modern IT teams face a presentation paradox. We need to move fast-really fast-while ensuring everyone actually understands what we're building, breaking, or fixing.

Best Cheap Black Friday VPS Deals - November 2025: A Cost-Based Analysis

It is November 2025 and Black Friday is here, and the VPS hosting world is getting ready for its biggest sale event of the year. Numerous VPS deals with huge discount percentages will appear across every website, but what should be considered is that the real savings aren't always what they look like at first glance. This guide focuses on total cost and provides a few different options that you can consider.

KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2025: Recap

Hi everyone, my name is Bailey Ahrens, and I’m a marketing intern at Speedscale! I just returned a few days ago from KubeCon + CloudNativeCon North America 2025. While it was only my second trade show, it felt like a huge step forward in my confidence, skills, and future direction. My first conference (API World) was all about stepping outside my comfort zone. KubeCon was where I started leaning into that confidence and finding my place in the tech community.