The importance of remote monitoring

Remote awareness is critical to keeping environments healthy. Monitoring should be able to happen no matter where you are located. At the time of writing this (June 2020), it’s likely that you and your team have been working remotely for several months and will keep working remotely for the foreseeable future. Being able to... Read more

Cecilia Judmann

10 June 2020

Cecilia Judmann

10 June 2020

Join us at the DevOps Enterprise Summit and learn all about database DevOps for enterprises

This year, the DevOps Enterprise Summit London is going virtual. From June 23 to June 25, it will offer three full days of immersive online learning in a collaborative and innovative environment. Expect a world-class line-up of speakers, a packed agenda, and the opportunity to learn about the tools and practices needed to implement... Read more

Matt Hilbert

9 June 2020

Matt Hilbert

9 June 2020

Can the shared development model work without shared environments?

Discussions about the pros and cons of the shared and dedicated development models have been going on for a long time. As far back as 2011 the well-known Microsoft Regional Director and MVP, Troy Hunt, wrote a long and impassioned article on Simple Talk, titled: The unnecessary evil of the shared development database. You... Read more

Continuous Integration vs Continuous Deployment

The terms Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment tend to be combined into the acronym CI/CD, often without any distinction between the two. CI and CD are distinct processes, even if this combining of terms suggests that Continuous Deployment is an extension of Continuous Integration, and the execution of both processes is the responsibility of a single tool. Assuming... Read more