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Infrastructure as Craft: Variables vs Locals

As DevOps engineers, we often talk about “infrastructure as code,” but too rarely do we talk about code as a craft. ...

Infra Ops

Remote Infrastructure Management Services With 24/7 Proactive Support for Distributed Systems

Your primary data center hums along in Chicago. A disaster-recovery site sits in Phoenix. Edge nodes are scattered ...

Infra Ops

IT Infrastructure Management Services: Cut Costs by 60% (With 24/7 Coverage)

When a critical server fails at 3 a.m., someone has to wake up and fix it. For most enterprise IT teams, that reality ...

AI Strategy

Escaping the IT Capacity Trap: How to Leverage AI for Incident Management

CIOs today are caught in a paradox. While 47 percent of global CIOs view AI for IT as a critical part of their ...

Google Workspace

4 Google Workspace Security Risks You Can’t Ignore (And How to Fix Them)

Google takes security seriously, with data centers protected by six different layers of physical and digital security.

Google Workspace

The Role of Google Workspace Admins in Strengthening Security: A Checklist for 2025

More than four in five security decision-makers acknowledge the need to improve security measures, according to a ...

Infra Ops

Why Email Is Still the #1 Cyber Threat — and What You Can Do About It

Even with a plethora of communications tools in the workplace, email isn’t going anywhere — and that means it will ...

Google Cloud

Google Launches New Product: Agentspace

In today's fast-paced business environment, it's more important than ever to automate repetitive tasks and free up ...

Cloud

Essential Prerequisites for Deploying LLM Applications in Production

Yes, I know; we’ve all been bombarded with AI presentations, offerings, news, and more over the last year and a half. ...

Infra Ops

Fixing CrowdStrike in VMware ESX vSphere Workaround

We identified a client with CrowdStrike issues on old Windows 10 machines with no local admin account and no access to ...

Infra Ops

An Overview of Understanding Chown and Chmod in Linux

Introduction In the world of Linux, managing file permissions and ownership is crucial for maintaining security and ...

Oracle

Mitigating Long Distance Network Latencies with Oracle Client Result Cache

Recently, Pythian was engaged to investigate the performance of an application that was reported as performing poorly ...

MySQL

How to Migrate Your On-Prem MySQL 8 Database to RDS Using MySQL Shell Logical Backup

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Managed Services

Managing the Performance of Grafana/Prometheus Dashboards using Nginx & Lua

Is your Prometheus performance causing your Grafana experience to suffer? Could you explain which of your tens of ...

Microsoft Azure

Trying out Large Language Models with Azure OpenAI Service

Introduction Language is a cornerstone of human communication, enabling us to express thoughts, share ideas, and convey ...

Database

Patroni – An awesome PostgreSQL HA Solution

Patroni Patroni is a High Availability solution for PostgreSQL using asynchronous streaming replication, Etcd, and ...

Oracle E-Business Suite

Backup Oracle E-Business Suite Running on AWS EC2

I’ve written this article to share my thoughts and ideas regarding backup solutions for Oracle E-Business Suite running ...

Oracle

A Quick-and-Easy Solution for the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Unique Domain Identifier Error

Introduction While working on adding new targets in Oracle Enterprise Manager utility, I encountered an error: Target ...

Oracle

Investigating a Chain of Events Resulting in Occasional Query’s Degraded Performance in Oracle

Introduction A client asked us to verify why an INSERT AS SELECT statement, which was part of a scheduled ETL job ...

Oracle

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

If you are using a remote Oracle database service, such as Oracle’s Autonomous Transaction Processing database, or an ...

Database

Blockchain Technology

BlockChain Technology (Part 1): People from different technical backgrounds have different perspectives on the ...

Microsoft SQL Server

DISTRIBUTED ALWAYS ON

What is Distributed Always ON It is a particular type of availability group that helps access the multiple failover ...

Cloud

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Recently, I was helping a client with their AWS Elastic File Service (EFS), which is a managed NFSv4.1 service, with ...

Oracle

Easy Transition from Screen to tmux

Do you use Screen in Linux? If so, I’m sure you appreciate the importance of functionality it provides. At times, as ...

Oracle

Syft your Linux Fleet Looking for ShellShock, Log4J…and Oracle Java?

What do ShellShock, Log4J, and Oracle Java have in common? ShellShock and Log4J are similar in that they represent ...

Google Cloud

Best Practices for Enterprise Data Platforms on Google Cloud: Part 1

Enterprises recognize that becoming truly data-driven will propel innovation, transformation, and differentiation. ...

Google Workspace

Is Google Workspace Security at the Top of Your Checklist?

The cloud offers a world of flexibility, but it also makes security more complicated. As businesses migrate from ...

Google Workspace

Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Introduction Google Workspace is an ideal collaboration and productivity tool: From Google Drive and Docs, to Sheets ...

Google Workspace

Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: Which is Right for Your Organization?

These days, most businesses don’t have a heterogeneous IT environment—even if it seems like it on paper. You might be a ...

Cassandra

Why your Cassandra cluster scales poorly

Apache Cassandra promises linear scalability and workload distribution, among many other features—and rightly so. ...

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Using Multi-Agent Reasoning for NLP-to-SQL

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Infrastructure as Craft: Variables vs Locals

Remote Infrastructure Management Services With 24/7 Proactive Support for Distributed Systems

IT Infrastructure Management Services: Cut Costs by 60% (With 24/7 Coverage)

Escaping the IT Capacity Trap: How to Leverage AI for Incident Management

4 Google Workspace Security Risks You Can’t Ignore (And How to Fix Them)

The Role of Google Workspace Admins in Strengthening Security: A Checklist for 2025

Why Email Is Still the #1 Cyber Threat — and What You Can Do About It

Google Launches New Product: Agentspace

Essential Prerequisites for Deploying LLM Applications in Production

Fixing CrowdStrike in VMware ESX vSphere Workaround

An Overview of Understanding Chown and Chmod in Linux

Mitigating Long Distance Network Latencies with Oracle Client Result Cache

How to Migrate Your On-Prem MySQL 8 Database to RDS Using MySQL Shell Logical Backup

Managing the Performance of Grafana/Prometheus Dashboards using Nginx & Lua

Trying out Large Language Models with Azure OpenAI Service

Patroni – An awesome PostgreSQL HA Solution

Backup Oracle E-Business Suite Running on AWS EC2

A Quick-and-Easy Solution for the Oracle Enterprise Manager (OEM) Unique Domain Identifier Error

Investigating a Chain of Events Resulting in Occasional Query’s Degraded Performance in Oracle

Round Trip Network Latency Tests for your Remote Database Service

Blockchain Technology

DISTRIBUTED ALWAYS ON

Amazon EFS Top-Talkers

Easy Transition from Screen to tmux

Syft your Linux Fleet Looking for ShellShock, Log4J…and Oracle Java?

Best Practices for Enterprise Data Platforms on Google Cloud: Part 1

Is Google Workspace Security at the Top of Your Checklist?

Best Practices for Hardening your Google Workspace Security

Google Workspace vs. Microsoft 365: Which is Right for Your Organization?

Why your Cassandra cluster scales poorly

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