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Measure your reliability risk, not your engineers

Jul 23, 2025 By Gavin Cahill In Gremlin
Do you know the current reliability risk of your systems? Do you know right now how your services will react to common failures like a dependency going down? Sadly, most organizations don’t have answers to these questions, relying on QA tests and the skill of their engineers to deploy code they assume won’t break. But this is a process problem, which means you can’t hire your way out of it.
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What's Driving Traffic in Rural America - Broadband, Wireless & DCI for AI

Jul 23, 2025 By Ribbon In Ribbon
s consumers continue to shift away from traditional cable broadcasting towards streaming video services such as Netflix, Disney+, Hulu, and Paramount+, this will continue to drive the demand for robust middle mile solutions. This growth in data traffic demands not only enhance rural provider’s Internet infrastructure but also fortify their needs for data center interconnectivity (DCI) to metropolitan hubs. In this context, rural markets require connectivity solutions that can support 100G and even 400G connections to efficiently handle rising bandwidth needs tied to cloud applications and content delivery networks.
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Upgrading to Puppet 8 - What You Need to Know

Jul 23, 2025 By Perforce Puppet In Puppet
Discover how Puppet 8 takes performance, modernization, and automation to the next level! This video offers a comprehensive overview of all the latest changes and benefits, including faster catalog compilation, streamlined agent execution, and improved debugging capabilities with enhanced logging and error messages. Key Moments in This Video:· Importance of Using PDK Explore key upgrades like these and see how tools like PDK empower your team by identifying and resolving compatibility needs quickly.
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Maximizing Peering Through Flow Analysis

Jul 23, 2025 By Rob Parker In Megaport
Discover how to use flow data to pinpoint your most valuable traffic, identify missing peer opportunities, and make smarter peering choices across your internet exchanges. In previous peering blogs, we’ve shared how you can maximize the value of your connection to an IX by peering with the IX route servers, and identify and contact specific peers via bilateral sessions.
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Database Naming Standards: SQL Conventions for Tables, Columns, and Keys

Jul 22, 2025 By Rosemary Asufi In Devart
SQL naming conventions are often at the root of database headaches. One careless name like temp1 or new_table can lead to broken queries, failed deployments, and hours of avoidable debugging. To prevent this, teams need clear, enforceable naming standards: rules they can rely on as databases evolve. Many organizations also turn to purpose-built SQL Server IDEs to apply the standards programmatically, visualize relationships, and manage schema changes across environments.
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Speedscale: Avoid Regulatory Icebergs with Traffic Replay, and Save Money

Jul 22, 2025 By Kristopher Sandoval In Speedscale
It has never been more critical to establish a solid foundation for regulatory compliance. Regulations govern a wide range of functions. Some of them are obvious, such as health and human services, patient data, medical devices, and credit payments. Some of them are less obvious, especially with the ever-changing definition of what constitutes private and identifiable data. This article provides an overview of regulatory compliance challenges and the hidden risks organizations face beneath the surface.
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resolve

Agentic Workflows That Actually Work (and Don't Take Six Months to Deploy)

Jul 22, 2025 By John Gorham In Resolve
There’s a hard truth in IT: everyone wants automation, but nobody wants to wait six months (or more) to get it off the ground. Traditional automation initiatives are often bogged down in backlog, scripting complexity, and integration chaos. That’s exactly what makes agentic workflows different. Agentic workflows don’t just automate tasks; they act. They understand intent, operate autonomously, and improve over time.
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Zero downtime deployments to Render using CircleCI

Jul 22, 2025 By John Abraham In CircleCI
Downtime during deployments can affect the performance of your work. Data can be lost, and trust in your application can be destroyed. Luckily, zero downtime deployments do not need to be complex or involve a big infrastructure. This tutorial will teach you to establish a stable CI/CD pipeline with CircleCI and Render to automatically test and deploy a basic React application.
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