The arrival of generative AI in the software development lifecycle (SDLC) is arguably the biggest shift in coding in decades. For development teams, tools like GitHub, Copilot, and other AI assistants act as a massive force multiplier, automating boilerplate, suggesting complex logic, and significantly accelerating time-to-commit. But as organizations rush to equip their teams, a […]
All Your Monitoring Solutions Are Just Wrong
There are many monitoring solutions available in the market. Some of them are ubiquitous and very popular. However, all of them are simply wrong and put the burden of monitoring on the users. They still use the approach that worked well when we didn’t have multi-tenant applications and hundreds of microservices but is not good […]
Let’s Finally Build Continuous Database Reliability! We Deserve It
Over the past few decades, we have undergone significant transformations, enhancing our ability to improve software delivery and creating new methodologies and frameworks to improve collaboration among teams. Despite these advancements, the existing software development lifecycle (SDLC) is still far from flawless. Teams invest a considerable amount of time in the handover of artifacts, and […]
Oracle Plans to Apply Generative AI to Java and SQL
Oracle is developing a generative AI assistant that uses multiple LLMs to create Java and SQL code. Oracle Code Assist will provide expert, opinionated feedback for code snippets, dependency analysis, error mitigation alternatives, test cases, annotation, summarization and documentation.
The Benefits of a Streaming Database
Streaming databases offer an innovative approach to data processing that combines the familiarity of traditional models with a powerful data transformation engine. This hybrid system provides DevOps and DataOps teams with extremely fast results for complex SQL queries, aggregations and transformations that are impossible or take hours to process in the traditional batch computation model. […]
How Database DevOps Fuels Digital Transformation
In today’s real-time, hyperconnected reality, data is a core driver behind most digital strategies. User data is constantly gathered and shared across various technology backends and platforms—as is system performance data to inform engineers. Data is pivotal for everything, from generating machine learning models, refining user experiences and even supporting new data-centric services. But although […]
SQL Server MDF to NDF Distribution
Do you have massive MDF files on your database? Have you noticed that your SQL Server disk stall metrics for these data files are higher than the storage latency metrics exhibited on the underlying operating system? It could be that your SQL Server data files are being hammered too hard and you don’t have enough […]
Microsoft Expands Azure DevOps Portfolio
Microsoft has made available a bevy of updates to its DevOps portfolio that, collectively, are intended to increase its share of a wave of applications that will be rolled out across the extended enterprise. Additions to the Microsoft DevOps portfolio were announced at the Microsoft Ignite 2021 conference and include DevOps Workflow Generator, a free […]
The Power and Potential of Stored Procedures
One way of saving time when writing code is with stored procedures; prepared SQL code that you can save so the code can be reused over and over again. Stored procedures are a powerful vehicle for speeding up your code and giving you gains in performance. Stored procedures have many benefits—they can be easily modified, […]
Couchbase Revamps DBaaS Based on Document Database
Couchbase Inc. has unfurled a revamped database-as-a-service (DBaaS) platform dubbed Couchbase Capella hosted on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud. Scott Anderson, senior vice president for product management for Couchbase, said that as application development continues to evolve, it’s becoming apparent more organizations prefer to have providers of databases manage those platforms on their behalf. […]