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Short Summary: This guide shows how to use time-based LEFT OUTER JOINs with SQL Server temporal tables, step by step. You’ll see how dbForge tools help you fine-tune these queries so you can get accurate reports for specific points in time, fully understand how your data changes, and confirm that your logic is correct.

IT organizations are being asked to reduce costs, manage risk, and maintain performance at the same time. Meanwhile, infrastructure complexity continues to grow, and vendor pricing changes are reshaping budget assumptions. Too often, an IT cost optimization strategy is shaped by incomplete data around sizing, licensing, refresh timing, and platform decisions. That uncertainty leads to overprovisioning, budget surprises, and reactive operations. Observability changes that equation.

Can you create an audit trail for what your AI agent actually did, and enforce rules about what it was allowed to do? Here’s what I found after spending a session wiring the two tools together.

Whether you’re in finance or engineering, you know keeping your customers happy is the key to success. That means, your SaaS product or service needs to be available, reliable, and cost-effective virtually all the time. On that note, you can determine how stable and high-performing your service is depending on whether you use On-Demand or Spot Instances. Pricing, capacity, and flexibility will also vary depending on which of the two instances you choose.

The Netdata Cloud MCP Server is now available — giving AI agents and assistants direct access to your Netdata through a single endpoint at app.netdata.cloud/api/v1/mcp.

At Harness, we’re committed to helping teams build and deliver software that doesn’t just work – it thrives under pressure, scales reliably, and recovers swiftly from the unexpected. Today, we’re taking the next step in that mission by evolving our Chaos Engineering module into Resilience Testing. This evolution reflects how reliability is tested in practice today.

Engineering metrics tools won’t solve problems if there isn’t communication about expectations in place. Learn how leaders are connecting engineering metrics with business outcomes. Engineering organizations are waking up to something that used to be optional: measurement. Not vanity dashboards. Not a quarterly “engineering metrics review” that no one prepares for. Real measurement that connects delivery speed, quality, and reliability to business outcomes and decision-making.

The average cost of a security breach reached nearly $4.4 million in 2025, according to the publication Cost of Data Breach Report. To proactively address this substantial financial and security risk, Infobip, a global cloud communications platform, used HAProxy Enterprise to implement a security and uptime framework that is both highly modular and highly performant.

Chatbots are starting to look fairly promising for businesses of all kinds. Customers today are keen to get things resolved faster than ever. Every startup out there is tempted to take the deal. But before jumping onto the bandwagon, you need to do some thinking as to what type of chatbot you must invest in. The decisive question being, which model of conversational AI perfectly aligns with the needs of your organization.