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It’s remarkable how many systems can manage unexpected performance demand, scaling resources and continuing operations. Yet truly unexpected demand can still apply enough stress to a system that it crashes. Here, we’re going to examine two failures that resulted from a single corporate controversy.

Data quality is fairly simple nomenclature to describe the state of the data being processed, analyzed, fed into AI, and more. But this modest little term belies an incredibly critical and complicated reality: that enterprises require the highest level of data quality possible in order to do everything from developing product and business strategies, and engaging with customers, to predicting the weather and finding the fastest delivery routes.

GitHub Actions is a powerful continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) platform that allows developers to automate build, test, and deployment pipelines. Workflows automatically build and test code whenever an event occurs, such as a pull request or a deployment of merged pull requests to production. Best of all, you can use it without leaving the comfort of your own repository!

In this article, Julie Kent discusses using associations in Rails when the underlying data model spans multiple databases. We didn't even know Rails could do this!