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 ten job postings shared this week are selected based on the company looking to hire, the vertical industry segment and naturally, the pay…
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The SQL analytics endpoint is a separate layer that maintains its own catalog and cache over the Delta tables in OneLake. Keeping it in sync with the underlying data is a background process with real latency, so data can land in the lakehouse while the endpoint still returns stale (or missing) rows.Two details make it worse than a fixed delay. The endpoint is serverless, so after a period of inactivity it spins down and the background refresh stops — the classic symptom is the first query of the morning returning yesterday’s data. And the refresh can simply stall: no error,…
Let’s clean up a chunky controller and put responsibilities in better places. We’ll move validation into a…
Homebrew, the unofficial but default package manager for many Apple Mac users, now has safeguards to prevent supply-chain attacks. The approach mimics how GitHub just fortified npm against attacks by establishing a set of trusted repositories to download from. “The Homebrew team is aware of the supply-side security issues with other package managers. We’ve taken various steps to mitigate these risks for our users,” wrote current Homebrew Project Leader Mike McQuaid in the 6.0.0 introductory post. Check the GuestlistWhen Max Howell created Homebrew in 2009, he consistently named features with terms from beer brewing and consumption. Thus, when a user…
In this lesson, we’ll step back from Laravel-specific features and work with plain PHP tools like classes,…
If you’ve been watching AI roll through the data community and thinking, “this seems useful, but I have no idea where to start,” this post is for you. If you have ethical objections to using AI, follow your convictions — this post isn’t here to convince you otherwise. My position these days is that AI use is inevitable in this industry, so I want to understand how to use it carefully and effectively while advocating for mitigation to the societal and environment damage that it causes. So if you’re curious, read on. Including AI in your Power BI development process…
Laravel isn’t limited to server-rendered apps. We’ll take a quick look at the built-in starter kits and…
GitHub is closing the book on the free preview period for one of its most widely adopted recent features. More than 10,000 enterprises used the GitHub Code Quality public preview to detect maintainability and reliability issues, enforce quality gates, and track code coverage. Starting July 20, 2026, that free ride ends. Code Quality becomes a paid, generally available product, and organizations that have come to depend on it during the preview window need to start planning for the bill.GitHub framed the early notice as an acknowledgment that billing changes are significant for customers, giving teams roughly a month’s runway to…
Let’s talk honestly about framework coupling. We’ll look at where plain PHP, interfaces, and container bindings keep…
For years, organizations have tried to improve speed, quality, and customer experience by layering frameworks on top of frameworks—Agile for iteration, DevOps for automation, ITIL for service stability, TOGAF for architecture, Lean for waste reduction. Each helped, but none solved the core problem: Work still doesn’t flow.In 2026, the most competitive organizations are converging on a different approach—one that doesn’t start with frameworks at all. It starts with value streams.Value Stream Mapping (VSM) has re-emerged as the connective tissue that unifies product management, engineering, operations, and architecture into a single, end‑to‑end system of flow. And the results are no longer…