Today, speed, reliability and automation are critical from a software development point of view. Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) form the backbone of modern DevOps practices, enabling faster and more frequent delivery of high-quality software to the teams. Among many such tools is GitHub Actions — a powerful, flexible and native CI/CD platform that is integrated directly within GitHub. In this article, we will look at how to use GitHub Actions to enhance your CI/CD pipelines, reduce operational overhead and create an automation and collaboration culture. Why GitHub Actions for CI/CD? The reason GitHub Actions is distinguished from other CI/CD tools like…
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Application programming interfaces (APIs) are the backbone of modern applications. However, failures — whether from third-party outages, network issues or rate limits — can cause major disruptions. While traditional testing falls short in preparing teams for these real-world issues, something more is needed to build a truly resilient system. Most companies often make common engineering mistakes when adopting technology, generation after generation. Jacob Caddy, senior technical product manager at Ambassador, stresses the great need for controlled failure simulations to build resilience and ensure services can handle downtime, slow responses and breaking changes. “It is about intentionally introducing faults into a system…
Thank you to everyone who contributed to this month’s T-SQL Tuesday! Here’s a roundup of the posts. The post T-SQL Tuesday #186 Roundup – Managing Agent Jobs appeared first on SQLServerCentral.
Disclaimer: this post is not sponsored by Redgate For those who’ve missed it, the new version of SSMS is now generally available. It’s a big new version and it now uses Visual Studio 22 behind the scenes, so it’s now installed through the Visual Studio Installer.Anyway, I’m a big fan of Redgate SQL Prompt as it enables my to quickly format code and it also has better autocomplete features. Officially, the latest version of SQL Prompt supports the preview version of SSMS 21. But what about the new GA version?I installed SSMS 21, imported existing settings from my old version…
I had a suggestion from somone on a place where AI helps them and I decided to try it. The person had an AI summarize their work and if the result wasn’t the intention of the author, then they know know their writing wasn’t clear.This post looks at how that worked for me.This is part of a series of experiments with AI systems.Checking an EditorialI wrote an editorial on database Devops that was published recently. I decided to have a few AIs summarize this and see if the result was what I intended. First up, Claude, with a simple prompt:…
As Matthew McConaughey runs around an airport wishing he had used an AI agent to book his flight, we could be forgiven for assuming that the technology is now a well-understood and integral part of everyday life for most people. Of course, that’s not true. In reality, it’s quite far from the truth, even for businesses, but that is not to say that things aren’t going that way. In the future, many of our decisions will be handled by agents, or at least heavily informed by them. But in areas where we want more control, we will likely retain decision-making power,…
Red Hat today at AnsibleFest 2025 previewed support for the Model Context Protocol (MCP) developed by Anthropic within Ansible Lightspeed, a set of generative artificial intelligence capabilities based on large language models (LLMs) specifically trained by Red Hat and IBM to automate IT tasks.Any LLM or associated AI agent will soon be able to invoke AAP to execute a playbook. Additionally, IT teams can make use of Ansible policy enforcement based on Open Policy Agent (OPA) framework to establish guardrails for any AI agent or LLM accessing MCP.Red Hat also previewed a customizable dashboard for the Ansible Automation Platform (AAP) that…
The Company Cerbo is a high-growth healthcare SaaS company, doing our part in the medical market to support holistic lifestyles and personalized medicine. Our software – Cerbo EHR – is a cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) and patient portal software system. Healthcare offices across the country – and some around the world – use Cerbo for almost everything they do in their day-to-day operations. Cerbo originally started as a developer’s nights-and-weekends project. And has grown into one of the leading EHR systems for functional or “root cause” medicine and membership- or cash-based clinics. Because of our unique origins, we often approach…
NVIDIA in partnership with JFrog and Dynatrace are working toward integrating DevOps tools with a platform for building artificial intelligence (AI) agents.At the COMPUTEX conference in Taiwan this week, NVIDIA added a validated design for building AI agents to the NVIDIA Enterprise AI Factory, an application development platform based on the NVIDIA Inference Microservices (NIM) framework that leverages containers to provide access to reusable services.Additionally, NVIDIA also added NVIDIA AI Blueprints to make it simpler for developers to build avatars, otherwise known as smart AI teammates.At the same time, JFrog revealed that its platform for managing software artifacts will be…
NB: This position is based at our Dutch office in Haarlem. You must be eligible to work in the EU. No VISA sponsorship offered. We are looking for a skilled PHP Laravel Developer to join our international development team of 12 PHP developers. The ideal candidate will have a strong foundation in PHP, experience with the Laravel framework, and a passion for delivering high-quality, scalable web applications. You will work on projects involving the migration of legacy code to Laravel, back-end development, API integration, and database management. Job profile PHP Developer You will be involved in all parts of the…