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Building dbRosetta Part 4: Automating a CI Database Build

Since I’m starting development with the dbRosetta database, and since I’m way more comfortable with databases than with code, I’m going to continue within the database sphere for a bit as we build out dbRosetta. My next step is to work with the AI to get a pipeline in place to take our database code and deploy it to Azure Flex Server.

Protect Against Critical Unauthenticated RCE in React & Next.js (CVE-2025-55182) with Traceable WAF

A critical, unauthenticated Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability, CVE-2025-55182, has been discovered in React Server Components and Next.js with the maximum severity rating of 10.0. The article highlights that Traceable by Harness WAF provided immediate, proactive protection against this vulnerability class through multi-layered defenses like Server Side Template Injection (SSTI) and Node.js Injection attack rules, even before the CVE was officially disclosed.

From AI to quick-deploy applications: Mark Shuttleworth and Randy Holloway discuss technology trends

‎‎ Subscribe. Trusted open source for everyone. Mark Shuttleworth, Canonical’s founder and CEO, sits down with Randy Holloway, Global GTM Leader at Microsoft, to discuss the current technology landscape. They explore AI’s impact on organizations and how open source in the public cloud is helping teams innovate.

OTel Updates: Unroll Processor Now in Collector Contrib

Some log sources bundle multiple events into a single record before shipping them. This is common with VPC flow logs, CloudWatch exports, and certain Windows endpoint collectors. While this batching approach is efficient for transport, it creates challenges when you need to filter, search, or correlate individual events. When a log record contains an array of 47 events, your analytics tool sees one entry instead of 47 distinct records.

Marginal Cost Explained: The KPI Every SaaS CFO Cares About (But You Rarely Track)

Ask a SaaS team how they measure cloud efficiency, and you’ll hear familiar things. Total cloud spend. Average cost per customer. Maybe a breakdown of spend by service. All useful, but rather wobbly. Now ask, “What does it cost you to serve one more customer?” That’s when the room goes quiet. And that’s often where cloud economics gets really wobbly. Because that number, your marginal cost, is what actually determines your margins. Not your total cloud bill.

Scaling with Wildcard Certificates: Why Modern Infrastructure Benefits

Managing TLS certificates at scale is one of those operational tasks that starts simple and quickly grows into a sprawling problem. As organizations adopt microservices, multi-tenant architectures, and globally distributed load balancers, the number of domains and subdomains they support can expand dramatically. Each certificate then requires its own lifecycle management: Wildcard certificates offer a powerful solution to this growing complexity.