Author: drweb

There’s no doubt that Skype was once one of the most popular instant messaging and video calling applications out there. Whether it was keeping in touch with friends and family or having conversations with clients and team members, Skype was a widely used tool. However, times have changed, and Microsoft has largely discontinued active development of Skype, with the platform losing significant market share to newer, more feature-rich alternatives. While Skype still exists, it’s no longer the go-to communication tool it once was. You might also like: Not everyone fancied Skype even in its heyday, and today, users have access…

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TSQL ScriptDOM is a useful library for parsing scripts into an abstract syntax tree. I’ve built a web tool that helps visualize this tree as a learning exercise.ForewordI’ve leveraged the ScriptDOM library in the past, for example, to build a homegrown linter. Or you can use the library to build your own formatter with the correct set of rules.Try It OutHead over to TSQL Visualizer and paste in some TSQL. My main goal was to build Editor, Tree and Fragment panels with a three-way sync: when you click somewhere, it highlights the position in the other two.About the ProjectFull transparency:…

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Organizations under pressure to cut cloud costs often reach for discount programs first as the simplest lever. It feels like a win to commit to reserved capacity or enterprise agreements because it lowers the rate paid per unit of compute or storage. However, this approach conceals a dangerous trap. When discounts are secured before workloads […]

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Over the past few months, I have debated starting a new blog to discuss our ALS journey. I realized we were writing about ALS on the Data on Wheels blog, CaringBridge, Facebook, and LinkedIn. I also created videos on YouTube. Adding another blog would only clutter the message. So, I decided not to move forward.What changed? At the Walk to Defeat ALS, my wife, Sheila, created some business cards with all those links. It was cluttered. About the same time, I completed the hand off of the Data on Wheels blog to my daughter, Kristyna. She made some changes to…

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Qovery has added multiple artificial intelligence (AI) agents to its DevOps automation platform that, in addition to responding to natural language prompts and executing complex operations, also anticipates the next step in a workflow. Company CEO Romaric Philogène said the AI DevOps Copilot family of AI agents automate a range of tasks, including provisioning environments, […]

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In the world of modern software development, speed is king. Teams are under constant pressure to release features, fix bugs and stay ahead of competitors. Yet, as development velocity increases, so does the risk of introducing vulnerabilities — an inconvenient truth that security teams have been sounding alarms about for years.  This tension between speed and […]

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Site reliability engineering (SRE) has become an emergent niche practice invented at Google to become a foundation of contemporary enterprise performance worldwide. With the continued growth of microservices, a multi-cloud infrastructure and continuous deployment pipelines adopted by organizations, the operational surface area has increased to the extent that human personnel cannot monitor and manage it in real time. The effectiveness […]

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