by Azalio tdshpsk | Jul 31, 2026 | Cloud
In late-July 2026, the following update and enhancement was made to Azure SQL: Regex-based dynamic data masking (DDM) extends the built-in DDM feature with pattern‑based masking to hide sensitive data like emails, phone numbers, and identifiers—centrally
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jul 31, 2026 | Cloud
Microsoft has had a narrow escape from total embarrassment: A security company uncovered a critical vulnerability that could have compromised all Azure Cosmos DB databases — both those of customers and Microsoft’s own. Google subsidiary Wiz found a flaw in the...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jul 31, 2026 | Cloud
For a long time, I thought of observability as something mainly owned by backend, platform or site reliability teams. Frontend engineers built the interface, handled browser behavior and called APIs. When something failed deeper in the system, another team looked at...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jul 31, 2026 | Cloud
OpenAI has cut API prices for its GPT-5.6 Terra and Luna models by 20% and 80%, respectively, while also reducing the number of usage credits the models consume in ChatGPT Work and Codex, in an effort to effectively increase the amount of AI work enterprise...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jul 31, 2026 | Cloud
JetBrains is warning of a critical security vulnerability in its TeamCity DevOps platform that could allow unauthenticated attackers to execute arbitrary operating system commands on vulnerable servers. “If exploited, this vulnerability may allow an unauthenticated...
by Azalio tdshpsk | Jul 31, 2026 | Cloud
A few years ago, I sat in a postmortem that I still think about. We’d had a production incident where a routine deploy had quietly shipped with the wrong configuration, and it took us longer to notice and roll back than anyone was comfortable admitting. But when we...
