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Gearset has been revolutionizing Salesforce DevOps since its founding in 2015. The Cambridge-based team set out with a clear mission: to make Salesforce deployments simpler, faster, and more reliable for every team. Today, Gearset’s powerful product suite is trusted by over 2,500 companies worldwide to deploy metadata, automate CI/CD pipelines, seed sandboxes, and secure critical customer data.

DB-Engines reveals PostgreSQL as the DBMS of the Year 2024, beating Snowflake and Microsoft's Azure SQL Database and SQL Server. One of Redgate’s community websites, DB-Engines, is today announcing that PostgreSQL is the DBMS of the Year for the second year in a row, winning for the fifth time overall after also being top-ranked in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2023. Second in the rankings was Snowflake, followed by Microsoft in third place.

Cloud providers like AWS excel at creating reliable platforms for developers to build on. But while the platforms may be rock-solid, this doesn’t guarantee your applications will be too. It’s the provider’s job to offer stable infrastructure, but you’re still on the hook for making your workloads resilient, recoverable, and fault-tolerant. There’s only one problem: cloud platforms are essentially black boxes.

This series will guide you through the most crucial container networking concepts. You don't need to be a Docker expert to apprehend the different concepts introduced here, though a basic understanding of networking, Docker, and Kubernetes is required. You can fast-track to the second part by going to Docker Networking Part II. Docker is a tool designed to create, build, and run isolated environments inside containers. It's widely used to containerize applications to run inside lightweight containers.

Managing a network can be daunting, especially as your infrastructure grows in size and complexity. Fortunately, network management software can help you monitor, manage, and optimize your network, ensuring everything runs smoothly. This post will explore the seven best network management software tools available today. After, we’ll dive into a comprehensive guide on network management to help you understand its importance and how to choose the right tool for your needs.

Understanding and managing the impact of Kubernetes changes is one of the biggest challenges for modern DevOps teams. Every modification to a manifest, whether it’s adjusting memory limits, tweaking CPU allocations, or updating container images, has the potential to destabilize services or degrade performance.