Punjab to Hire Ex-Servicemen as Monitoring Officers in PEF Schools

Open Source Isn't a Business Model Choice Anymore. It's the Only Option.

A few weeks ago, on the sidelines of an event at La Felicita (Station F), I got into a conversation with the CEO of Aiven about open-source business models.

• Open-source is no longer a business model choice, but the only viable option.
• Companies like MongoDB, Elastic, Redis, and HashiCorp relicensed to restrict community access.
• ZizkaDB offers an alternative by running inside customers' own cloud environments.

2h ago ·dev.to

Database Reliability: The SRE Approach to Keeping Data Safe

The Backup That Wasn't We had backups. Daily snapshots to S3. Perfectly configured. Never tested. When we needed to restore after a data corruption incident, we discovered the backups had been…

• Weekly restore test script checks for backup failures and data discrepancies
• PostgreSQL replication monitoring alerts when lag exceeds thresholds
• Key dashboard panels track active connections, query latency, and disk usage

2h ago ·dev.to

I'm teaching an introductory 12 week course on Quantum Oracle Engineering

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IBM Could Be a Massive Winner as the Encryption Reset Becomes Urgent

IBM (NYSE: IBM) may have a multiyear opportunity hiding inside the shift to post-quantum security. The upside depends on whether IBM can turn its technical credibility and enterprise footprint into…

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