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The fastest SQL Change Automation, Azure DevOps and AzureSQL DB pipeline

Is it possible to set up an end-to-end deployment pipeline from Dev through to Production in Azure DevOps, with SQL Change Automation and Azure SQL DB in just 10 minutes? Join Chris Unwin, a Redgate Solution Engineer, as they try to break the record for setting up a migrations-first pipeline with SQL Change Automation from Dev to Continuous Integration and finally, deployment.

Choosing the Best AWS Serverless Computing Solution

Serverless computing is becoming increasingly popular in software development due to its flexibility of development and the ability it affords to test out and run solutions with minimal overhead cost. Vendors like AWS provide various tools that enable businesses to develop and deploy solutions without investing in or setting up hardware infrastructures. In this post, we’ll cover the many different services that AWS provides for supporting serverless computing.

Splunk Log Observer: Log analysis built for DevOps

Log analysis is a key part of getting answers from your stack, and Splunk Log Observer, part of the Splunk Observability Cloud, is built for fast, powerful log analysis. Trust the industry-leading expert on logs to help you draw insights fast from any volume of data, in real-time, without having to write any queries by hand.

Kubernetes: Weighing Advantages and Disadvantages

Kubernetes is one of the current leading technologies. Its adoption has seen tremendous growth in the past few years. The concept of containers is a paradigm that appears to be the predominant medium of software development and deployment in the coming future. Containers help maintain consistency across various platforms, as they pack an application with its dependencies to help move it from one platform to another.

Announcing Ribbon Voice Sync for Regional and Rural Service Providers

Regional and rural providers are challenged every day to keep their network together. Time, obsolescence, razor-thin margins, and changing customer expectations are conspiring to pull it apart. Watch on-demand to learn how Ribbon is synchronizing multiple elements of our portfolio into a new and better solution for regional and rural providers.

Failover Conf follow-up: Your team and culture questions answered!

Thank you all for joining us last week for Failover Conf 2! We had a great turnout this year, with over 1,800 participants, 20 sponsors, and 9 amazing sessions. After more than a year of virtual events and video calls, we know that Zoom fatigue is real. We tried to make this event different by finding new ways to bring the community together and thinking of fun new ways to shake up the conference formula.

Out with GraphQL, in with gRPC

At Speedscale, we’re always trying to find ways to iterate faster and reduce developer toil. In line with that mission, we slant our engineering decisions towards using cutting edge tech because we usually move faster and it also allows us to help our customers later on when they upgrade their own tech stack. Recently, we had the opportunity to upgrade the communication channel between our api-gateway and react front end. This journey provided some unexpected benefits.