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Boost Magento performance: scale, optimize, and speed up your ecommerce store

Looking to maximize the performance of your Magento or Adobe Commerce store? In this deep-dive session, Platform.sh experts Jared Wright and Jerry’s Ida share best practices for optimizing infrastructure, caching strategies, database tuning, and deployment processes. Learn how to scale for high-traffic events like Black Friday Discover Magento-specific optimizations for caching, Redis, and MySQL Reduce downtime with efficient deployment strategies Use tools like Blackfire to track and improve performance.

FinOps As A Service: How To Do Cloud Finance For Smarter Spending

We’ve covered the fundamentals of FinOps in several guides on this blog, including FinOps 101, the FinOps maturity journey (as outlined by the FinOps Foundation), and more. But if you need a quick refresher, no worries. We’ve linked key guides on what FinOps is, why it matters, and how to make it work for you in “Related reads” in the next section.

Fix IT Incidents Faster with AI | Meet Edwin AI: The First Agentic AI for ITOps

Tired of drowning in IT alerts? Struggling to find the root cause of incidents? Edwin AI is here to help. Edwin AI is the first agentic AI built for IT teams, designed to cut through the noise, speed up resolutions, and prevent outages. Cuts alert noise by 90% – Less clutter, more focus Fixes issues 60% faster – AI-powered insights and recommendations Boosts team productivity by 20% – Automates tasks and escalations.

3 Popular Methods to Shut Down or Reboot a Remote Computer

Managing IT systems in interconnected environments often requires shutting down or rebooting remote computers for several reasons. For instance, you might want to reboot the computer to troubleshoot errors and address software updates. Or you might shut it down as part of your security protocols. In this post, you’ll learn three popular methods for rebooting or shutting down remote computers. We’ll also cover some additional considerations, including potential issues and how to solve them.

dbForge Tools for Oracle 6.0: A Myriad New Options and Enhancements to Make Your Daily Work Faster and Easier

We’ve got another big update coming your way. This time it’s all about dbForge tools for Oracle, which have received a huge number of new options, functional enhancements, and subtle design tweaks, all of which will work together to make your daily work with Oracle Database exceptionally easy and convenient. Without further ado, let’s see what we’ve got for you today.

Expand Your Connectivity With New ODBC Drivers for Dynamics 365 Business Central, Trello, and ClickUp

Our team is excited to announce the release of three new Devart ODBC Drivers that provide easy access to data stored in Dynamics 365 Business Central, Trello, and ClickUp using the ODBC standard. These Drivers are robust solutions that allow developers, analysts, and business intelligence professionals to connect to live data on cloud platforms and databases directly from any ODBC-compliant application.

How to keep track of what's running in your Gremlin team

•Part of the Gremlin Office Hours series: A monthly deep dive with Gremlin experts. Reliability testing is ongoing, and tracking that work can be difficult in large organizations. According to our own product metrics, teams run an average of 200 to 500 tests each day! With so much happening, it’s hard to keep track of everything going on—unless you use Gremlin.

Scientific Incident Management with Dan Slimmon

Dan Slimmon is an incident management veteran who's worked at Etsy, HashiCorp, and now leads consulting and training on pragmatic, non-bureaucratic incident response. In this episode, Dan shares his philosophy on "scientific incident response," the importance of hypothesis-driven troubleshooting, and why incidents should be seen as normal in complex systems.