As artificial intelligence (AI) code-generation tools like GitHub Copilot and ChatGPT revolutionize software development, a critical question emerges: If AI writes most code, do we still need policy-as-code (PaC) to govern it? The answer isn’t just ‘“yes’” — it is a resounding ‘“now more than ever’.” To understand why, we must explore PaC’s evolution, its role in modern infrastructure and how it will anchor trust in the AI-driven future. What is Policy as Code? A Governance Layer Born From Chaos PaC is the practice of defining security, compliance and operational rules in machine-readable formats, enabling automated enforcement across systems. It emerged in…
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Nmap, short for Network Mapper, is an open-source and highly versatile tool used by Linux system and network administrators. It is commonly employed for network exploration, security scanning, auditing, and detecting open ports on remote machines. Nmap can identify live hosts, determine operating systems, detect packet filters, and reveal open ports running on remote systems. Nmap Command Usage nmap [Scan Type(s)] [Options] {target specification} How to Install NMAP in Linux Most of today’s Linux distributions, like Red Hat, CentOS, Fedora, Debian, and Ubuntu, include Nmap in their default package management repositories (Yum or APT), which are used to install and…
The people of Digitown are being targeted by phishermen, and they need my help to stop them in their tracks. The problem The police have asked for our assistance, and we’ve got a massive data set to work with. We’ve got listings of all the calls that have been made during the week, and we need to find the source of the phishing calls. It’s not going to be easy, but we know you’re up for the challenge! We need you to analyze the data and use your detective skills to find any patterns or clues that could lead us…
I’m hosting T-SQL Tuesday this month and our topic is Managing SQL Agent Jobs. In this post, we’ll be taking a look at a very handy combination of dbatools functions for looking at agent job schedules & performance.Getting Job HistoryIf you don’t have a monitoring suite watching SQL Agent, or you want to get a bigger picture view of when and how your Agent jobs are running, dbatools can help you shortcut getting this information. Get-DbaAgentJobHistory does exactly what its name suggests – it fetches the execution history for one or more Agent jobs on one or more SQL Server…
If you’re a data analyst juggling varied datasets, mastering SQL data type conversions isn’t just handy—it’s crucial. Whether you’re making different data types play nice together or boosting query speed, knowing your way around conversions saves you headaches and errors down the line.This piece dives into the essential SQL data type conversion methods. I’ll show you where they shine in the real world and give you solid advice for crafting more effective queries. Stick with me, and you’ll get a solid grip on SQL conversions, making your work more accurate and your queries faster.When you’re deep in SQL databases, effectively…
Linux is one of the most widely used operating systems in both personal and enterprise environments. Whether you’re aiming to become a system administrator, DevOps engineer, software developer, or IT professional, having a solid foundation in Linux is essential. To support your learning and interview preparation, we’re excited to introduce a dedicated Linux Interview section on Tecmint, which will feature carefully selected Linux interview questions, along with detailed answers to help you prepare with confidence. Every weekend, we’ll publish a new article in this section, starting from basic Linux questions and gradually moving toward more advanced topics. This initiative is…
Zerve today expanded its platform for visualizing complex IT infrastructure to include multiple generative artificial intelligence (AI) agents capable of planning, provisioning and building IT infrastructure, including the data workflows that developers need to drive applications.Announced at the Open Data Science Conference (ODSC), the core Zerve Operating System has also been updated to include a distributed computing engine, dubbed Fleet, that enables via single command massively parallel code execution using serverless technology, invoked with a single command.Designed to be hosted in an on-premises IT environment, the Zerve Operating System, AI agents that Zerve has added are capable of presenting a…
A global survey of 2,750 IT, DevOps leaders and software developers finds nearly half of respondents (45%) admit their organization prioritizes delivery speed over software quality, with 63% acknowledging their organization deploys code without fully testing it. Only 13% of respondents said their organization is focused on improving software quality.Conducted by Censuswide on behalf of Tricentis, a provider of an application testing automation platform, more than one-third (34%) of respondents say ongoing maintenance and unresolved technical debt are the largest obstacles to delivering high-quality software. Other issues include poor communication between software development and quality assurance teams (33%) and a…
Moderne today revealed a pair of alliances with Diffblue and Azul Systems that promise to accelerate application modernization initiatives.As a provider of a platform that leverages an open-source OpenRewrite Lossless Semantic Trees (LSTs) project to create structured representations of complex codebases developed by Moderne, the alliances with Diffblue and Azul provide deeper integrations with unit testing tools and a Java code analytics platform, respectively.Moderne CEO Jonathan Schneider said, for example, DevOps teams will be able to more easily test refactored code using Diffblue Cover testing tools that employ machine learning algorithms and reinforcement learning to automatically generate unit tests.In a…
It’s that time of the month again, when the T-SQL Tuesday blog party takes place. I manage this site, and am looking for hosts all the time. This month I managed to convince Andy Levy to host, and I’m grateful for his participation.His invitation is asking about SQL Agent jobs and how they are managed. It’s focused, but he gives a lot of choices for how to examine this subsystem in SQL Server.Note: if you work in Oracle or PostgreSQL or anything else, how do you schedule work in an automated fashion? Cron? Something else? You can still write.If you…