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How to Reduce Cart Abandonment Without Relying on Discounts

Cart abandonment can be a problem for many successful ecommerce businesses when the customers add items to their carts and then leave the page before completing their purchase. Offering a percentage off on each purchase may convince some customers to return and complete their order. However, this may limit the company's profits because the customers are taught to wait before buying. A better solution would be trying to figure out why the clients abandon their carts and fix the problems they encounter on the website.

How to Prepare Storage Containers for Temporary Warehouse Closure

A company's temporary closure of its warehouses can create a serious challenge, if its inventories, equipment, and supplies are not placed in different storage locations or brought to a halt for a short period of time. During such occurrences, the corporations have a responsibility to either ensure enough free space for stashing goods or move their properties elsewhere, if continued functioning in new conditions remains possible while still meeting customer demands during this time.

Custom Mugs for Business: How to Design and Order Branded Mugs Online

To design and order custom mugs for your business, use a platform that handles both the artwork and the printing. In Adobe Express, you can design and print your own coffee mug from corporate templates, add your logo, fonts, and colors, and order 11 oz or 15 oz printed mugs directly in the US, UK, Australia, or Canada.

The recovery playbook every IT team needs to get ahead of downtime

Most downtime doesn't come from problems your team can't solve. It comes from problems they've already solved sitting in a runbook or a text file, waiting for someone to run the fix manually. The fix is documented, and the steps are proven, yet the recovery still takes 40 minutes because a human has to log in and type it out. Workflow automation exists specifically to close that gap: The fix runs the moment the alert is triggered, not when someone sees it.

Observability is a data problem

TL;DR Metrics, logs, and traces each have a different shape, so each needs a different backend. Aiven for Metrics handles metrics and alerting, Aiven for OpenSearch handles keyword search across logs, and Aiven for ClickHouse handles analysis of high-volume, high-cardinality events. All three are upstream open source engines on the same Aiven platform, so you can start with one and add the others as your needs change.

Inside a DevOps Team Extension engagement: an infrastructure review and a Typesense architecture session

How Qovery assessed a growing B2B SaaS company's infrastructure across about 150 controls, what the review with their team changed, and why a Typesense high-availability project turned into a sharding plan. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

Replacing NGINX with Envoy Gateway on Hundreds of Clusters: What the Plan Missed

In February we planned to move every Qovery-managed cluster from ingress-nginx to Envoy Gateway by the end of March. It took until October. Here is the rollout model, every class of problem we hit, and what I would do differently. Benjamin is a staff engineer at Qovery focused on infrastructure automation, Kubernetes internals, and building the deployment engine that powers thousands of clusters.

DevOps Team Extension: Qovery engineers watching your infrastructure every month

DevOps Team Extension gives growing engineering teams a named Qovery engineer, a continuous infrastructure scan, and a monthly remediation plan, so they can scale reliability, security and compliance without hiring a DevOps team first. Romaric founded Qovery to make Kubernetes accessible to every engineering team. He writes about platform strategy, developer experience, and the future of cloud infrastructure.

SecureBridge 12.1, EntityDAC 4.1, and dbExpress drivers: Support for RAD Studio 13 Florence Release 2, SQL Server 2025, and MySQL 9.7

New versions of SecureBridge, EntityDAC, and dbExpress drivers are out. All three now work with RAD Studio 13 Florence Release 2 and offer improved support for the Arm64EC target platform. Devart dbExpress drivers also add support for Microsoft SQL Server 2025 and MySQL 9.7, while SecureBridge gains SFTP upload resume, multipart/form-data support, and a new SSL/TLS demo.