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ClickHouse LowCardinality: When It Helps and When It Hurts

ClickHouse LowCardinality cuts storage and speeds up queries on low-cardinality columns, but backfires on trace IDs. How to tell the difference. Prathamesh works as an evangelist at Last9, runs SRE stories - where SRE and DevOps folks share their stories, and maintains o11y.wiki - a glossary of all terms related to observability.

The Miasma worm explained: How it Hit Red Hat and Microsoft

Miasma has already hit Red Hat and 73 Microsoft GitHub repos. Here's how it works and what your team can do right now. Nigel Douglas, Head of Developer Relations at Cloudsmith, breaks down the Miasma worm – a self-replicating supply chain attack and evolved variant of Mini Shai-Hulud from threat group TeamPCP. Learn how Miasma uses the yo-yo attack method to move laterally across registries and workstations, why conventional scanners missed it, and the practical steps security teams can take today, including cooldown policies and continuous risk assessment.

New Pipeline Triggers | Bitbucket Blitz | Atlassian

Bitbucket Pipelines already supports triggering on repository pushes and pull request pushes. But if you wanted to react to other events like a deployment finishing, a build failing, or a PR getting merged, you had to wire that up yourself with webhooks or external glue code. New trigger types let you define those conditions directly in your YAML. You can fire custom pipelines on events like pipeline-completed, deployment-completed, pullrequest-created, pullrequest-fulfilled, and more.

Introducing Kepler: The Delivery Engine for Agent-Driven Development

You’re no longer writing code. You’re managing a pipeline of agents writing it for you. If you’ve been running two, three, or four AI coding agents in parallel, you already know the problem. The agents are fast. The orchestration is chaos. You’re bouncing between terminal windows, manually rebasing branches, cleaning up messy commits, and trying to remember which agent is touching which repo.

Why Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Compliance Requires Auditable Database Change Management

This article examines DORA's requirements for database change management and explains how Redgate Flyway Enterprise addresses them. The EU's Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) came into full effect in January 2025. It is designed to strengthen the ability of financial institutions to withstand operational disruption, whether caused by technology failures, data corruption, human error, or a cyberattack.

Without Governance, AI Is Just Faster Failure

Kellyn Gorman is a Database and AI Advocate and Engineer at Redgate She's the previous director of Data and AI at Silk, and the Oracle SME in Azure at Microsoft. With a robust background in cloud technology and a passion for promoting its merits and potential, I am thrilled to spearhead conversations and actions that help shape the future of this industry. Kellyn has authored numerous technical books, white papers and solution repositories in GitHub on database, AI and engineering topics.

Anthropic Fable 5 & Mythos 5 Suspended AI Risk Revealed!

Your entire AI stack ran on a model that disappeared in three days. The US government issued a directive suspending all access — a few hours' notice, no deprecation window, no roadmap. Launched Tuesday. Gone by Friday. And every enterprise that had built workflows on top of it just found out what the real risk was: not the model itself, but the absence of a governance layer underneath it.

What is AWS Cloud WAN? Benefits, Use Cases, and Adoption Best Practices

Learn how AWS Cloud WAN works, key benefits, limitations, use cases, and adoption best practices. As AWS environments grow across multiple regions and accounts, networking can become increasingly difficult to manage. What starts as a handful of virtual private clouds (VPCs) can quickly evolve into a complex web of connectivity, routing policies, and security requirements.