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How to Reduce Continuous Monitoring Costs

Continuous monitoring is a crucial practice in the fields of DevOps, cybersecurity, and compliance. It involves the proactive and ongoing process of observing, assessing, and collecting data from various systems, applications, and infrastructure components in real-time or near real-time. Continuous monitoring is closely related to observability, which goes beyond simple monitoring to provide a deep understanding of complex and dynamic systems.
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How Right-Sizing Ephemeral Environments Reduces Cloud Costs

Ephemeral environments supercharge development velocity-but if left unchecked, they can quietly drain your cloud budget. The answer? Right-sizing: a strategy that tailors resource allocation to real-world usage. Done right, it can slash cloud expenses by 30% to 70%. Let's dive into how this works-and why more teams are making it part of their CI/CD pipelines.
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How to Choose the Right Incident Management Tool for Your Team

IT disruptions are inevitable. What separates a resilient organization from the rest is its ability to respond quickly, efficiently, and collaboratively to incidents. The cornerstone of such responsiveness? The right incident management tool. But with a market flooded with tools, each promising to revolutionize your workflows, how do you pick the one that truly fits your team's needs? In this blog, we'll break down the key factors to consider when selecting an incident management tool, ensuring you make an informed decision that enhances your team's effectiveness and reliability.

Ribbon Expands Portfolio of DISA JITC-Certified Solutions in Support of U.S. Department of Defense Network Deployments

Ribbon Communications Inc. announces the expansion of its portfolio of Joint Interoperability Test Command (JITC)-certified solutions. The Ribbon Policy Engine Server (PSX), Ribbon Application Management Platform (RAMP), and Ribbon Analytics have been added to the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Approved Products List (APL), reinforcing Ribbon's commitment to delivering secure, mission-critical communications infrastructure.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.