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Crafting a microservice that fits your needs

This blog is based on Haylee Millar's talk at the Symfony 2024 conference. Haley is a Product Engineer at Upsun. We utilized AI tools for transcription and to enhance the structure and clarity of the content. When faced with an aging system that needs new features, many development teams find themselves at a crossroads. Do you patch the old system and risk technical debt, or do you take the leap into microservices architecture?

Building dbRosetta Part 6: Let's Make a Web Page

Once more in this series, we’re moving into areas where I’m not entirely comfortable. I haven’t built a PHP plugin and web page, ever. However, we’re going to put the LLM/AI and associated agents to work on this task. As with so much else when working with AI, it all starts with the prompt, so let’s go there.

The future home of open source | Ubuntu Summit 25.10

In this talk, Fintan Halpenny discusses the current state of open source forges, why GitHub is becoming more hostile, what other forges are out there, and why you should consider Radicle to be the next home for your open source project. About Fintan Fintan Halpenny (@fintohaps) has been a part of the Radicle project for 6 years, seeing the different twists and turns of this ever-evolving idea and protocol. When he’s not programming, he’s playing around with music, or looking at the world upside-down on his hands.

TOP MySQL ODBC Drivers 2026

ODBC MySQL drivers have become a critical layer in the performance, stability, and scalability of modern analytics systems. And the broader market confirms that shift. Forecasts now put the ODBC market segment at USD 4.38 billion by 2029, clear proof that this once-overlooked layer is becoming a priority inside enterprise data stacks. But what many teams still underestimate is the spread in quality of these tools. While ODBC drivers serve the same purpose, they do not all deliver the same results.

QuickBooks to Power BI: Devart's Alternative to Microsoft's Deprecated Connector

Microsoft officially pulled the plug on the native QuickBooks Power BI connector, triggering immediate reporting disruptions for many businesses. Automated refresh stopped working, dashboards went stale, and financial reporting pipelines that once ran in the background began to fail without warning. This changed daily finance operations. Finance teams were forced back into manual CSV exports, delayed updates, and fragile reporting workflows.

OTel Updates: OpenTelemetry Proposes Changes to Stability, Releases, and Semantic Conventions

Over the past year, the Governance Committee ran user interviews and surveys with organizations deploying OpenTelemetry at scale. A few patterns came up consistently: Stability levels aren't always obvious. When you install an OTel distribution, some components might be experimental or alpha without clear markers. This makes it harder to evaluate what's production-ready. Instrumentation libraries sometimes wait on semantic conventions.

Fresh from AWS re:Invent: Supercharging HAProxy Community with AWS-LC Performance Packages

The timing couldn’t have been better. Last week, the tech world descended on Las Vegas for AWS re:Invent. It was the perfect venue to talk about cloud infrastructure, scale, and the future of application delivery. While we enjoyed talking shop at our booth, we didn't just bring swag and demos; we brought a significant performance improvement for our open-source community.

Bitbucket: The Next Generation | Bitbucket | Atlassian

Today’s software development landscape is changing rapidly with the rise of AI, and Atlassian is reimagining how Bitbucket empowers teams to thrive in this new era. We’ve invested deeply to take Bitbucket to the next level, helping developers and leaders alike ship quality code faster, improve productivity, and collaborate seamlessly. Join us as we share all the exciting new innovations we’ve recently launched, as well as what we’re building for the future, including Data Residency. We’ll cover.