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Meet Cortex: The Engineering Operations Platform

Standardize. Visualize. Drive Change. Cortex is the leading Engineering Operations Platform that helps organizations define what "good" looks like and empowers teams to reach those standards. From tracking DORA metrics to driving large-scale migrations, Cortex provides the visibility and tools necessary to maintain a high-performing engineering culture. In this video, you’ll see how to: Set the Standards: Create custom Scorecards (like Operational Maturity or DORA Metrics) with automated rules integrated directly from tools like PagerDuty, Incident.io, and GitHub.

Conversations: Ask Netdata About Anything You're Looking At

Netdata AI can already troubleshoot your alerts and generate Insights reports. What it couldn’t do, until now, was have a back-and-forth conversation. You could get a one-shot analysis, but you couldn’t ask follow-up questions, pull in additional context, or go from a quick question to a full investigation without starting over. We’ve added a conversational layer to Netdata AI.

The pipeline that never reached production | Harness Blog

Modern CI/CD platforms allow engineering teams to ship software faster than ever before. Pipelines complete in minutes. Deployments that once required carefully coordinated release windows now happen dozens of times per day. Platform engineering teams have succeeded in giving developers unprecedented autonomy, enabling them to build, test, and deploy their services with remarkable speed. Yet in highly regulated environments-especially in the financial services sector-speed alone cannot be the objective.

Free vs Commercial ORM Tools: Best Picks Compared

When you’re building.NET applications, the choice between free ORM tools and commercial ones can make or break your project’s future. It’s not about one side winning, both have standout strengths. Free tools like Entity Framework Core or Dapper offer flexibility without the price tag. However, as projects grow, teams need commercial tools to deal with larger schemas, more complex mappings, and multiple developers working on the same data layer.

Bridging the Gap: Keeping On-Premises SQL Server Competitive in a Cloud-First World

Short Summary: Many companies evaluate cloud platforms when they reach scalability limits on existing infrastructure, with migration decisions typically driven by a broader mix of factors: cost optimization, availability, security, and access to managed services. However, despite this shift, a lot of teams still run SQL Server on their own servers. Keeping these systems running well requires good monitoring, performance tuning, and regular maintenance.

Why SaaS is Dying (and what's next) #speedscale #saas #data #datasecurity #devops #technews

Traditional SaaS is a data trap. It’s time to stop sending your most valuable asset to third parties. Enter BYOC (Bring Your Own Cloud): the future of data sovereignty, where the software comes to you. Visit: speedscale.com.

In the Mind of a CXO | Where Did the BEAD Funds Go!?

Cliff Johnson, Broadband Initiative Director at NRECA, and Ribbon’s Marketing & Product Director, Mitch Simcoe, cut through the noise to clarify where BEAD funding truly stands—what has been allocated, where significant dollars remain, and how emerging middle‑mile opportunities are reshaping the competitive landscape.