One prompt. Twelve lines. A working SQL Server Wait Statistics dashboard with live charts, auto-refresh, dark theme, recommendations panel. I did not plan to write this post. But I could not stop thinking about what happened.Let Me Tell You What I Actually NeededI wasn’t trying to do anything particularly impressive when I started this. I just needed to see what was happening inside a SQL Server, right now, without the usual drama of setting up a full monitoring stack.I didn’t want Grafana or Datadog. I didn’t want agents to install, a new license to justify, or a whole weekend to…
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An analysis of 2,000 organizations worldwide finds that historically lower performing software engineering teams are seeing nearly a 50% improvement in lead time to delivery, a four times greater rate of improvement over higher performing teams that have adopted AI coding tools. Conducted by Plandek, a provider of a software engineering intelligence (SEI) platform, the report also notes that despite that improvement, lower performing software engineering teams still deliver less than half the output per engineer compared to high-performing teams. For example, bottom-quartile teams still take more than 35 hours to merge pull requests, compared to under 21 hours for…
It’s hard to find a team today that isn’t talking about agents. For most organizations, this isn’t a “someday” project anymore. Building agents is a strategic priority for 95% of respondents that we surveyed across the globe with 800+ developers and decision makers in our latest State of Agentic AI research. The shift is happening fast: agent adoption has moved beyond experiments and demos into something closer to early operational maturity. 60% of organizations already report having AI agents in production, though a third of those remain in early stages. Agent adoption today is driven by a pragmatic focus on…
The T-SQL Tuesday topic this month comes James Serra. What career risks have you taken?I started my career as a preacher and ended it as a director in data consulting with a Microsoft MVP award. I can think of two major career risks or decisions I made that shaped my career trajectory.Going into consultingThe first big risk I took was going into consulting. I had just learned how to create a database and write an application using Microsoft Access. I developed a warehouse management solution to replace manual, handwritten product location management. The tables were normalized, the front end was…
This T-SQL Tuesday is hosted by the one and only James Serra – literally my go-to guy for data lakes and BI architecture. I am so tickled to be writing this right when am reading his book on ‘Deciphering Data Architectures: Choosing Between a Modern Data Warehouse, Data Fabric, Data Lakehouse, and Data Mesh’ (small book and easy to get through, recommended). James’s call to us is to blog on career risks we’ve taken.I am a risk taker.I strongly believe in doing work that stimulates and energizes you, rather than treating work as just a job. Some people regard this…
In this guide, we’ll explain what MD5 is, how to generate MD5 checksums for files, and how to verify file integrity using these checksums in Linux. When working with files on Linux, it’s important to ensure their integrity, especially when downloading files from the internet, transferring data between systems, or verifying backups. One reliable way to do this is by using checksums, which are unique strings generated from the contents of a file, and the MD5 checksum is one of the most commonly used methods for this purpose. What is MD5? MD5 stands for Message Digest Algorithm 5, which is…
DevOps.com is now providing a weekly DevOps jobs report through which opportunities for DevOps professionals will be highlighted as part of an effort to better serve our audience. Our goal in these challenging economic times is to make it just that much easier for DevOps professionals to advance their careers. Of course, the pool of available DevOps talent is still relatively constrained, so when one DevOps professional takes on a new role, it tends to create opportunities for others. The five job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and…
The gap between “assigned” and “PR ready for review” just got shorter. GitHub announced on March 5 that its Copilot coding agent now integrates directly with Jira, letting teams assign issues to Copilot from their Jira workspace and receive draft pull requests in their GitHub repository — without anyone switching tools. The integration, now in public preview, is part of a broader push by GitHub to embed its coding agent into the project management tools where engineering teams already plan and triage work. It’s a meaningful step in the shift from AI assistants that help you write code to AI…
As a DevOps professional, I’ve seen firsthand how cloud costs can quickly spiral out of control without the right practices in place. That’s where FinOps comes in—it’s a powerful approach that helps us manage cloud spending while still enabling innovation. If you’re new to FinOps, let me break down the basics and show you how to take your first steps into this important practice.First off, FinOps stands for Financial Operations, and it’s all about bringing financial accountability into the cloud. Traditionally, finance and IT teams operated separately, but with cloud services, we need to work together more closely. FinOps helps…
There’s a element in HTML now. Looks like Chrome led it up and got it into Chrome first. Now we’re in the ol’ 🤷♀️ state on when we’ll get it elsewhere. But the process certainly involved other browser makers, so that’s good. Manuel Matuzović has a good intro blog post. The element doesn’t behave right within an so embedding a demo here doesn’t make sense. You can see a small demo here, and the code is here. Here’s what I think you should know: It’s a with an enforced design. It’s got a map icon and text that says “Use…