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The early cloud migration gold rush promised agility, cost savings, and innovation. Yet, fast-forward a few years, and many of those “trailblazers” are now realizing their cloud strategy is anything but optimized. For those who lifted and shifted, hoping to catch the cloud wave, the tide is turning—and it’s not looking pretty. The truth? Cloud 1.0 is out. Simply moving your legacy apps to the cloud without rearchitecting was a band aid solution.

The rise of remote development environments, like GitHub Codespaces, has certainly captured the spotlight in recent years. These cloud-based solutions offer flexibility and ease of access, making them an attractive choice for many developers. However, it’s important not to overlook the tried-and-true advantages of local development environments. Hosting your code locally on your machine can provide a more controlled, efficient, and secure environment for your development needs.

Oracle is one of the most widely used database management systems for a reason. It provides an extensive set of tools that allow you to accomplish even the most intricate tasks. Today, we will focus on the Oracle COUNT function, exploring what it is, how it works, its structure, and addressing common misconceptions and best practices. dbForge Studio for Oracle will serve as our trusted wingman, supporting us throughout this process.

One of the highlights of my summer is a trip I took to visit some of our rural customers as part of a larger customer appreciation tour other members of the Executive Leadership Team (ELT) and I embarked on. Independent service providers hold a unique place in the telecom ecosystem, often forming the backbone of their communities, and this was a wonderful way for us to connect on a personal level.

As businesses continue to generate and store massive amounts of data, effective document management becomes increasingly important. SharePoint Online, one of Microsoft 365’s core collaboration tools, allows organisations to store, share, and manage documents effortlessly. However, simply storing data isn’t enough—effective archiving is essential to ensure compliance, optimize storage costs, and preserve critical information for the long term.

As the 2nd part of a couple of blog posts I wanted to do after the Frends Autom8 event this week, I wanted to talk about the use case where a customer is using Frends, but they have their own Azure environment and is using that for hosting the agents for Frends.

This guide provides an in-depth look at its setup and usage, helping you monitor and manage your Kubernetes clusters more efficiently.