Imagine your app faces a sudden surge in users. Thousands log in at once. Can your system handle the pressure, or will it crash?

The Domain Name System (DNS) is often described as the address book of the Internet. A and AAAA records map a human-friendly hostname like honeybadger.io to some machine-friendly IP address like 104.198.14.52. Other types of DNS records also exist; in particular, CNAME records are records that map a hostname to some other hostname, thereby delegating IP resolution to the latter.

Testing in production involves evaluating software directly in a live environment as real users. It’s becoming increasingly common.

Understanding embedded analytics dashboards starts with knowing what the term itself means—so let’s break it down. Dashboards are screens or pages that display information in a unified view that makes data easily digestible for end users.

Fivetran Managed Data Lake Service brings automation, governance and reliability to data lakes.

There is a sense of growing maturity in the DevOps market that is also reflected by its evolving tools. For the past some time, I’ve also seen these tools expanding beyond the limited utilities of continuous integration and continuous delivery. They are now seeping into database management, QA automation, and even AI integration in the SDLC. However, I see no deviation in their efficiency that enables teams to transition smoothly from ITOps to DevOps.

Support for pipe syntax in GoogleSQL brings the elegance of piped data flow to SQL queries in BigQuery and Cloud Logging.

This year's Gartner Hype Cycle for Data Management report mentions self-service data management. It’s a game-changer that gives business users the power to work with data without constantly relying on IT, boosting data quality and making data available for analytics and decision-making. But what is it, really? How do you achieve self-service? Let’s take a closer look.

Perforce has been contributing and working in open source for decades now. We understand that open source is the linchpin for technology that supports businesses today. Our approach to open source is not unique to the industry at large or a company of our size (we have around 1,700 employees and 800 are on my team), but questions of our approach to open source became much more visible when we acquired Puppet – which has a really dedicated open-source community and a long history with open source.