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The business value of frequent deployments: Faster time to market

In this series, we’ve been exploring the different layers of business value you can gain from deploying software more frequently. We’ve already looked at the hard costs you can save, and the valuable developer time you can recoup. But that’s not the end of the story. Not by far. Picture an iceberg. The top,... Read more

5 things to look for in a third-party monitoring tool

A key finding from Redgate’s last State of Database Monitoring Survey of over 2,500 IT professionals was that 79% of respondents reported using either a third-party or in-house monitoring tool. It’s notable because it was an increase of 10 percentage points from the same survey the previous year – and the satisfaction rate with... Read more

What are the biggest challenges organizations face in their digital transformation efforts?

As part of a recent Redgate Summit which focused on digital transformation and data modernization, I was fortunate enough to be able to interview Pramod Sadalage, a Director at Thoughtworks. There, and I’m quoting here, he enjoys the rare role of bridging the divide between database professionals and application developers. He’s usually sent in... Read more

The ten habits for highly successful compliant database DevOps

Database DevOps has come of age. Now seen as a key technical practice which can contribute to the successful implementation of DevOps, it stops the database being a bottleneck and makes releases faster and easier. Conversely, perhaps, the automation and audit trails it introduces can help to protect personal data within databases and make... Read more

The business value of frequent deployments: Recouped time

The first post in this series introduced the idea of the different layers of value that your business can gain from frequent deployments and focused on the hard costs you can save. We’re looking at the role the database plays here because it’s the most complicated part of the process and it’s difficult to... Read more

How a Viking Princess defeated ChatGPT

In the first of a series of articles about how ChatGPT and other AI tools like DALL-E will change the way we work with words, code and images, we put ChatGPT through its paces and find out how intelligent it really is, and what its limitations are when it meets someone from over a... Read more

The business value of frequent deployments

We’ve written a ton of content about how to unlock the value of frequent deployments for your database as well as applications, from improved coding patterns to strategies for architecting smaller deployments. But the multi-million-dollar question for you and your business is something else entirely: what is the real business value of frequent deployments?... Read more

How do your DevOps plans really measure up?

Digital transformation seems to be on the to-do list of every organization at the moment. Alongside it, DevOps is one of those buzzwords that gets lumped in, with some vague intention of having things automated. If you’re championing a DevOps implementation in your organization, or wish to see where your current processes measure up... Read more

Moving to Tech: A Marketer’s Story

If four months ago you had asked me about Vacuums, Containers and Blobs, I would have thought you were referring to household items. And now? Well, I still can’t tell you the intricate details or mechanisms of Vacuums, Containers or, er, Blobs, but I at least understand their function within the IT and software... Read more

Enabling digital transformation – and data modernization – with DevOps

I don’t need to highlight the impact of the last few years on the world and its businesses. Companies that once completely dismissed the idea of remote working now embrace online offices, with many now operating fully remotely. Externally, the marketplace is shifting too, and opportunities for creating and realizing value can be found... Read more

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