#file server migration tools

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These solutions offer security, compliance, documentum structured content management, and much more. However, it is quite often complex in terms of handling by IT. For instance, SharePoint has reached maturity with modern collaboration tools support and a user-friendly interface, easy connectivity with Microsoft 365, and has turned out to be the front runner for most companies in terms of choice. To evaluate the possibilities of Documentum migration, one has to know their capabilities and limitations and make an informed decision.

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SysNotes devlog 1

Hiya! We're a web developer by trade and we wanted to build ourselves a web-app to manage our system and to get to know each other better. We thought it would be fun to make a sort of a devlog on this blog to show off the development! The working title of this project is SysNotes (but better ideas are welcome!)

What SysNotes is✅:

A place to store profiles of all of our parts

A tool to figure out who is in front

A way to explore our inner world

A private chat similar to PluralKit

A way to combine info about our system with info about our OCs etc as an all-encompassing "brain-world" management system

A personal and tailor-made tool made for our needs

What SysNotes is not❌:

A fronting tracker (we see no need for it in our system)

A social media where users can interact (but we're open to make it so if people are interested)

A public platform that can be used by others (we don't have much experience actually hosting web-apps, but will consider it if there is enough interest!)

An offline app

So if this sounds interesting to you, you can find the first devlog below the cut (it's a long one!):

(I have used word highlighting and emojis as it helps me read large chunks of text, I hope it's alright with y'all!)

Tech stack & setup (feel free to skip if you don't care!)

The project is set up using:

Database: MySQL 8.4.3

Language: PHP 8.3

Framework: Laravel 10 with Breeze (authentication and user accounts) and Livewire 3 (front end integration)

Styling: Tailwind v4

I tried to set up Laragon to easily run the backend, but I ran into issues so I'm just running "php artisan serve" for now and using Laragon to run the DB. Also I'm compiling styles in real time with "npm run dev". Speaking of the DB, I just migrated the default auth tables for now. I will be making app-related DB tables in the next devlog. The awesome thing about Laravel is its Breeze starter kit, which gives you fully functioning authentication and basic account management out of the box, as well as optional Livewire to integrate server-side processing into HTML in the sexiest way. This means that I could get all the boring stuff out of the way with one terminal command. Win!

Styling and layout (for the UI nerds - you can skip this too!)

I changed the default accent color from purple to orange (personal preference) and used an emoji as a placeholder for the logo. I actually kinda like the emoji AS a logo so I might keep it.

Laravel Breeze came with a basic dashboard page, which I expanded with a few containers for the different sections of the page. I made use of the components that come with Breeze to reuse code for buttons etc throughout the code, and made new components as the need arose. Man, I love clean code 😌

I liked the dotted default Laravel page background, so I added it to the dashboard to create the look of a bullet journal. I like the journal-type visuals for this project as it goes with the theme of a notebook/file. I found the code for it here.

I also added some placeholder menu items for the pages that I would like to have in the app - Profile, (Inner) World, Front Decider, and Chat.

i ran into an issue dynamically building Tailwind classes such as class="bg-{{$activeStatus['color']}}-400" - turns out dynamically-created classes aren't supported, even if they're constructed in the component rather than the blade file. You learn something new every day huh…

Also, coming from Tailwind v3, "ps-*" and "pe-*" were confusing to get used to since my muscle memory is "pl-*" and "pr-*" 😂

Feature 1: Profiles page - proof of concept

This is a page where each alter's profiles will be displayed. You can switch between the profiles by clicking on each person's name. The current profile is highlighted in the list using a pale orange colour.

The logic for the profiles functionality uses a Livewire component called Profiles, which loads profile data and passes it into the blade view to be displayed. It also handles logic such as switching between the profiles and formatting data. Currently, the data is hardcoded into the component using an associative array, but I will be converting it to use the database in the next devlog.

New profile (TBC)

You will be able to create new profiles on the same page (this is yet to be implemented). My vision is that the New Alter form will unfold under the button, and fold back up again once the form has been submitted.

Alter name, pronouns, status

The most interesting component here is the status, which is currently set to a hardcoded list of "active", "dormant", and "unknown". However, I envision this to be a customisable list where I can add new statuses to the list from a settings menu (yet to be implemented).

Alter image

I wanted the folder that contained alter images and other assets to be outside of my Laravel project, in the Pictures folder of my operating system. I wanted to do this so that I can back up the assets folder whenever I back up my Pictures folder lol (not for adding/deleting the files - this all happens through the app to maintain data integrity!). However, I learned that Laravel does not support that and it will not be able to see my files because they are external. I found a workaround by using symbolic links (symlinks) 🔗. Basically, they allow to have one folder of identical contents in more than one place. I ran "mklink /D [external path] [internal path]" to create the symlink between my Pictures folder and Laravel's internal assets folder, so that any files that I add to my Pictures folder automatically copy over to Laravel's folder. I changed a couple lines in filesystems.php to point to the symlinked folder:

And I was also getting a "404 file not found" error - I think the issue was because the port wasn't originally specified. I changed the base app URL to the localhost IP address in .env:

…And after all this messing around, it works!

(My Pictures folder)

(My Laravel storage)

(And here is Alice's photo displayed - dw I DO know Ibuki's actual name)

Alter description and history

The description and history fields support HTML, so I can format these fields however I like, and add custom features like tables and bullet point lists.

This is done by using blade's HTML preservation tags "{!! !!}" as opposed to the plain text tags "{{ }}".

(Here I define Alice's description contents)

(And here I insert them into the template)

Traits, likes, dislikes, front triggers

These are saved as separate lists and rendered as fun badges. These will be used in the Front Decider (anyone has a better name for it?? 🤔) tool to help me identify which alter "I" am as it's a big struggle for us. Front Decider will work similar to FlowCharty.

What next?

There's lots more things I want to do with SysNotes! But I will take it one step at a time - here is the plan for the next devlog:

Setting up database tables for the profile data

Adding the "New Profile" form so I can create alters from within the app

Adding ability to edit each field on the profile

I tried my best to explain my work process in a way that wold somewhat make sense to non-coders - if you have any feedback for the future format of these devlogs, let me know!

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Disclaimers:

I have not used AI in the making of this app and I do NOT support the Vibe Coding mind virus that is currently on the loose. Programming is a form of art, and I will defend manual coding until the day I die.

Any alter data found in the screenshots is dummy data that does not represent our actual system.

I will not be making the code publicly available until it is a bit more fleshed out, this so far is just a trial for a concept I had bouncing around my head over the weekend.

We are SYSCOURSE NEUTRAL! Please don't start fights under this post

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Migrated my google photos to the storage server, all those years of photos, messages, downloads, screenshots amounts to 14GB.

It's really funny how small images can get, especially when they're taken at this level of quality.

although they're not all this potato, here's one of a cat that used to live on the university campus

As a note, your Takeout has metadata in sidecar json files instead of embedded in exif, so you need to fix it, this tool works well:

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Using Distrosea, I had a look at Rocky Linux 9.

Rocky Linux is a Linux distro designed for the VFX industry. It serves as a drop in replacement for Red Hat Enterprise Linux.

Rocky Linux website:

https://rockylinux.org/

Here is a example of an animation studio that uses the distribution.

DreamWorks' migrated their workstations and servers from Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 to Rocky Linux 9 in 2023 and completed the rollout the following year.

DreamWorks Animation website:

https://www.dreamworks.com/about

About RHEL:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux

About Rocky Linux:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rocky_Linux

Here are some reasons DreamWorks Animation moved from Red Hat Enterprise Linux:

- Red Hat dropped the CentOS Linux operating system in 2020. They ended support for version 7 in 2024. 

CentOS was an downstream version of Red Hats main operating system without its branding and support. Rocky Linux fills this void left by CentOS.

DreamWorks used CentOS alongside Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Both their Workstations and server set-ups were migrated to Rocky.

- Red Hat further restricted access to its source code in their Enterprise focused operating system.

- Rocky Linux has become a very popular open source operating system for the VFX industry and features many modern advancements and desktop environment choices such as GNOME, KDE, XFCE, MATE and Cinnamon.

- Like all Red Hat based builds of Linux, Rocky Linux uses the DNF (Dandified Yellow Dog Updater) extension to manage application installations via the Dnfdragora package manager. However it also uses the universal Flatpak extension to install applications from the GNOME software centre.

- DreamWorks animation pipeline uses their recently opened sourced Moon-Ray renderer, which is built on Rocky Linux. The source code is available on GitHub.

The tool supports Linux and Mac OS. Here is a link to the Open Moon Ray installation and compiling on Rocky:

https://docs.openmoonray.org/getting-started/installation/building-moonray/general_build/

It features a set of commands for installing various graphics libraries (for the render tool and Houdini, a character effects development tool), as well as toolsets which can be applied to programs such as Blender.

There are many YouTube videos about the open sourcing of Moon-Ray itself and some showcases of it working.

Rocky Linux is a downstream, complete binary-compatible release using the Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) operating system source code.

Unlike RHEL, Rocky is completely free to use. It is released under the BSD 3-Clause license, which allows free use, modification, and distribution. 

There are no licensing or subscription fees associated. RHEL is a commercial product from Red Hat and requires a subscription license to use.

Rocky's selection of desktop environments can be installed independently in their own disk image file.

Each one can also be tested on a live USB before installation.

Users can also install their desktop environments of choice using the command line.

When running the system on a server (which is the common way of using Linux systems) it will just have the command line interface when a monitor is plugged in. 

Distrosea:

https://distrosea.com/

The latest build is Rocky Linux 10, released in June 2025. The version available to test on Distrosea is 9.

I tried GNOME, MATE, XFCE and KDE.

As this MATE desktop edition didn't come with either Dnfdragora or GNOME Software, I tried installing Blender (an open source animation tool) using the 'sudo dnf install blender' command in the terminal.

However, due to the graphics limitation of the VM, the program couldn't launch.

To install software graphically, you can use GNOME Software Centre that comes on GNOME. This can be used on other desktop environments as well.

A good Linux distribution if you are using graphics heavy applications and need a robust enterprise grade operating system without the cost!

Another Linux distro that is similar is Alma Linux, another enterprise focused operating system that uses the same foundations as CentOS.

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This is an interesting time in the history of Social, on account of, the entire natural order undergirding our conception of social media has imploded and is taking our modern modes of engagement with it. (Which is to say, bearer bonds are paying interest again. Alas!)

It's a very 'open' moment in that way; there's a huge and well-known appetite for a specific kind of thing, but many of the existing systems designed to serve and exploit that appetite are in retreat. Big potential energy reservoirs with limited competition for resources! If you're feeling more poetic- the old world is dying, and the new world struggles to be born.

The challenge, of course, is how to be one of the more successful monsters during the transition. If you play your cards right, they name the new era after you, it's a cushy gig if you can get it.

Many of the initial successor-attempts are trying to learn the lessons of 2005-2020 by emphasizing open protocols; these are common to Bluesky and Mastadon for Twitter refugees, the Matrix protocol for Element and other successors to Discord, and so on. And that's probably one of the more important choices that really are being made right now, in real time. Open, or closed?

Without as much cash flowing through the system, megaprojects and monoliths will be much harder to sustain. That's not necessarily a bad thing! We've gotten used to high-stakes struggles, we're all tangled up with the fates of a small number of huge institutions. Which sucks, right? It brings out the worst in us. Whereas open standards, such as the protocols we achieved for the internet as a whole, make that fight much harder to have at all. It builds a world more ordered towards democratic sensibilities and mutual respect. But there's no easy way to achieve that kind of victory. It takes genius, and good luck, and wisdom, and money, and all the other things.

One of my favorite discoveries from Discord (and, in retrospect, the BBS era) is that I personally really like social environments with a sense of 'place' to them. In my favorite servers, I'll often just hop on an empty voice chat and see if anybody else hops on to say hi, as a way of nucleating conversation. People can come and go at leisure, like being in a particular circle of conversation at a party. It's genuinely like 'hanging out', in a way that can't be replicated by flat and wide platforms like Twitter and Facebook, which in the absence of 'place' become a sort of public-performance status competition by default. Boundaries between small communities often make the difference between being a guy and being a brand; even on Tumblr, it's really more the latter than the former even as we build a sort of proto-community with our mutuals.

When I imagine my sort of 'ideal internet of the future', I think it looks something like a more porous, discoverable, and interconnected Discord: individual mixed-media real-time communication platforms with a specific members list and some ad-hoc internal structure to order conversations. But unlike Discord, these servers could look like something 'on the outside' if they wanted to, capable (though not required) by design of something much like a webpage, including links to other such webpages and other forms of discoverability. Temporary visitors would have free access to any curated digital products of that community placed on the page (including rights to copy, but with attribution baked in to the file format), with a smooth and community-defined onboarding from 'visitor' to 'member' that would vary according to the needs of the community in question. A bit like wordpress, these pages would have basic templates for nontechnical users but give you full access to webdev tools if you wanted them; but they would also give users full control over the entire contents of the server iff the users wanted that level of control, up to and including migrating a server to a member's locally-owned machine. The real-time members-only guts of the server would of course be end-to-end encrypted, such that these communities would have real and meaningful self-ownership.

I kind of like this because it creates a very smooth gradient with "IRC chat room" on one end and "Just A Website" on the other, but with the ability to evolve smoothly between them in real time, and with a very easy 'entry point' for novices and normies that could gradually grow towards a professional programming/webdev level of expertise if interest grows. And there's plenty of room for 'open/flat' curation of content in the manner of traditional Facebooky and Twittery social media, but people would be interacting with it through the intermediary of this 'server' abstraction, which would hopefully blunt the worst of the evils- we'd be individuals in private communities, but fictive mini-institutions when exposed to the wider world. And that same functionality could be used for projects like the Internet Archives or AO3 that are oriented towards the preservation of sometimes controversial materials, as cultures and moderators in individual servers changed.

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Best Web Hosting Companies in India 2025

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Prime Features:

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Budget-friendly security

Scalable

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Key Features:

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Main Features:

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Key Features:

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Exclusive customer support named “Guru”

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Based in the US, GoDaddy is a well-established web hosting company that is one of the prominent market players in India. Established in the 90s in the United States, this company has built a strong client base all over the world. With its user-friendly platform and comprehensive tools, clients can easily set up and manage their websites with this web hosting company.

Prime Features:

Outstanding customer support 24/7

Domain registration services

Website Builder

Enhance performance and improve accessibility

These are a few web hosting providers in India that can help you create and manage your websites easily.

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This Week in Rust 534

Hello and welcome to another issue of This Week in Rust! Rust is a programming language empowering everyone to build reliable and efficient software. This is a weekly summary of its progress and community. Want something mentioned? Tag us at @ThisWeekInRust on Twitter or @ThisWeekinRust on mastodon.social, or send us a pull request. Want to get involved? We love contributions.

This Week in Rust is openly developed on GitHub and archives can be viewed at this-week-in-rust.org. If you find any errors in this week's issue, please submit a PR.

Updates from Rust Community

Official

Announcing Rust 1.76.0

This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.77

Project/Tooling Updates

zbus 4.0 released. zbus is a pure Rust D-Bus crate. The new version brings a more ergonomic and safer API. Release: zbus4

This Month in Rust OSDev: January 2024

Rerun 0.13 - real-time kHz time series in a multimodal visualizer

egui 0.26 - Text selection in labels

Hello, Selium! Yet another streaming platform, but easier

Observations/Thoughts

Which red is your function?

Porting libyaml to Safe Rust: Some Thoughts

Design safe collection API with compile-time reference stability in Rust

Cross compiling Rust to win32

Modular: Mojo vs. Rust: is Mojo 🔥 faster than Rust 🦀 ?

Extending Rust's Effect System

Allocation-free decoding with traits and high-ranked trait bounds

Cross-Compiling Your Project in Rust

Kind: Our Rust library that provides zero-cost, type-safe identifiers

Performance Roulette: The Luck of Code Alignment

Too dangerous for C++

Building an Uptime Monitor in Rust

Box Plots at the Olympics

Rust in Production: Interview with FOSSA

Performance Pitfalls of Async Function Pointers (and Why It Might Not Matter)

Error management in Rust, and libs that support it

Finishing Turborepo's migration from Go to Rust

Rust: Reading a file line by line while being mindful of RAM usage

Why Rust? It's the safe choice

[video] Rust 1.76.0: 73 highlights in 24 minutes!

Rust Walkthroughs

Rust/C++ Interop Part 1 - Just the Basics

Rust/C++ Interop Part 2 - CMake

Speeding up data analysis with Rayon and Rust

Calling Rust FFI libraries from Go

Write a simple TCP chat server in Rust

[video] Google Oauth with GraphQL API written in Rust - part 1. Registration mutation.

Miscellaneous

The book "Asynchronous Programming in Rust" is released

January 2024 Rust Jobs Report

Chasing a bug in a SAT solver

Rust for hardware vendors

[audio] How To Secure Your Audio Code Using Rust With Chase Kanipe

[audio] Tweede Golf - Rust in Production Podcast

[video] RustConf 2023

[video] Decrusting the tracing crate

Crate of the Week

This week's crate is microflow, a robust and efficient TinyML inference engine for embedded systems.

Thanks to matteocarnelos for the self-suggestion!

Please submit your suggestions and votes for next week!

Call for Participation; projects and speakers

CFP - Projects

Always wanted to contribute to open-source projects but did not know where to start? Every week we highlight some tasks from the Rust community for you to pick and get started!

Some of these tasks may also have mentors available, visit the task page for more information.

* Hyperswitch - [FEATURE]: Setup code coverage for local tests & CI * Hyperswitch - [FEATURE]: Have get_required_value to use ValidationError in OptionExt

If you are a Rust project owner and are looking for contributors, please submit tasks here.

CFP - Speakers

Are you a new or experienced speaker looking for a place to share something cool? This section highlights events that are being planned and are accepting submissions to join their event as a speaker.

Devoxx PL 2024 | CFP closes 2024-03-01 | Krakow, Poland | Event date: 2024-06-19 - 2024-06-21

RustFest Zürich 2024 CFP closes 2024-03-31 | Zürich, Switzerland | Event date: 2024-06-19 - 2024-06-24

If you are an event organizer hoping to expand the reach of your event, please submit a link to the submission website through a PR to TWiR.

Updates from the Rust Project

466 pull requests were merged in the last week

add armv8r-none-eabihf target for the Cortex-R52

add lahfsahf and prfchw target feature

check_consts: fix duplicate errors, make importance consistent

interpret/write_discriminant: when encoding niched variant, ensure the stored value matches

large_assignments: Allow moves into functions

pattern_analysis: gather up place-relevant info

pattern_analysis: track usefulness without interior mutability

account for non-overlapping unmet trait bounds in suggestion

account for unbounded type param receiver in suggestions

add support for custom JSON targets when using build-std

add unstable -Z direct-access-external-data cmdline flag for rustc

allow restricted trait impls under #[allow_internal_unstable(min_specialization)]

always check the result of pthread_mutex_lock

avoid ICE in drop recursion check in case of invalid drop impls

avoid a collection and iteration on empty passes

avoid accessing the HIR in the happy path of coherent_trait

bail out of drop elaboration when encountering error types

build DebugInfo for async closures

check that the ABI of the instance we are inlining is correct

clean inlined type alias with correct param-env

continue to borrowck even if there were previous errors

coverage: split out counter increment sites from BCB node/edge counters

create try_new function for ThinBox

deduplicate tcx.instance_mir(instance) calls in try_instance_mir

don't expect early-bound region to be local when reporting errors in RPITIT well-formedness

don't skip coercions for types with errors

emit a diagnostic for invalid target options

emit more specific diagnostics when enums fail to cast with as

encode coroutine_for_closure for foreign crates

exhaustiveness: prefer "0..MAX not covered" to "_ not covered"

fix ICE for deref coercions with type errors

fix ErrorGuaranteed unsoundness with stash/steal

fix cycle error when a static and a promoted are mutually recursive

fix more ty::Error ICEs in MIR passes

for E0223, suggest associated functions that are similar to the path

for a rigid projection, recursively look at the self type's item bounds to fix the associated_type_bounds feature

gracefully handle non-WF alias in assemble_alias_bound_candidates_recur

harmonize AsyncFn implementations, make async closures conditionally impl Fn* traits

hide impls if trait bound is proven from env

hir: make sure all HirIds have corresponding HIR Nodes

improve 'generic param from outer item' error for Self and inside static/const items

improve normalization of Pointee::Metadata

improve pretty printing for associated items in trait objects

introduce enter_forall to supercede instantiate_binder_with_placeholders

lowering unnamed fields and anonymous adt

make min_exhaustive_patterns match exhaustive_patterns better

make it so that async-fn-in-trait is compatible with a concrete future in implementation

make privacy visitor use types more (instead of HIR)

make traits / trait methods detected by the dead code lint

mark "unused binding" suggestion as maybe incorrect

match lowering: consistently lower bindings deepest-first

merge impl_polarity and impl_trait_ref queries

more internal emit diagnostics cleanups

move path implementations into sys

normalize type outlives obligations in NLL for new solver

print image input file and checksum in CI only

print kind of coroutine closure

properly handle async block and async fn in if exprs without else

provide more suggestions on invalid equality where bounds

record coroutine kind in coroutine generics

remove some unchecked_claim_error_was_emitted calls

resolve: unload speculatively resolved crates before freezing cstore

rework support for async closures; allow them to return futures that borrow from the closure's captures

static mut: allow mutable reference to arbitrary types, not just slices and arrays

stop bailing out from compilation just because there were incoherent traits

suggest [tail @ ..] on [..tail] and [...tail] where tail is unresolved

suggest less bug-prone construction of Duration in docs

suggest name value cfg when only value is used for check-cfg

suggest pattern tests when modifying exhaustiveness

suggest turning if let into irrefutable let if appropriate

suppress suggestions in derive macro

take empty where bounds into account when suggesting predicates

toggle assert_unsafe_precondition in codegen instead of expansion

turn the "no saved object file in work product" ICE into a translatable fatal error

warn on references casting to bigger memory layout

unstably allow constants to refer to statics and read from immutable statics

use the same mir-opt bless targets on all platforms

enable MIR JumpThreading by default

fix mir pass ICE in the presence of other errors

miri: fix ICE with symbolic alignment check on extern static

miri: implement the mmap64 foreign item

prevent running some code if it is already in the map

A trait's local impls are trivially coherent if there are no impls

use ensure when the result of the query is not needed beyond its Resultness

implement SystemTime for UEFI

implement sys/thread for UEFI

core/time: avoid divisions in Duration::new

core: add Duration constructors

make NonZero constructors generic

reconstify Add

replace pthread RwLock with custom implementation

simd intrinsics: add simd_shuffle_generic and other missing intrinsics

cargo: test-support: remove special case for $message_type

cargo: don't add the new package to workspace.members if there is no existing workspace in Cargo.toml

cargo: enable edition migration for 2024

cargo: feat: add hint for adding members to workspace

cargo: fix confusing error messages for sparse index replaced source

cargo: fix: don't duplicate comments when editing TOML

cargo: relax a test to permit warnings to be emitted, too

rustdoc: Correctly generate path for non-local items in source code pages

bindgen: add target mappings for riscv64imac and riscv32imafc

bindgen: feat: add headers option

clippy: mem_replace_with_default No longer triggers on unused expression

clippy: similar_names: don't raise if the first character is different

clippy: to_string_trait_impl: avoid linting if the impl is a specialization

clippy: unconditional_recursion: compare by Tys instead of DefIds

clippy: don't allow derive macros to silence disallowed_macros

clippy: don't lint incompatible_msrv in test code

clippy: extend NONMINIMAL_BOOL lint

clippy: fix broken URL in Lint Configuration

clippy: fix false positive in redundant_type_annotations lint

clippy: add autofixes for unnecessary_fallible_conversions

clippy: fix: ICE when array index exceeds usize

clippy: refactor implied_bounds_in_impls lint

clippy: return Some from walk_to_expr_usage more

clippy: stop linting blocks_in_conditions on match with weird attr macro case

rust-analyzer: abstract more over ItemTreeLoc-like structs

rust-analyzer: better error message for when proc-macros have not yet been built

rust-analyzer: add "unnecessary else" diagnostic and fix

rust-analyzer: add break and return postfix keyword completions

rust-analyzer: add diagnostic with fix to replace trailing return <val>; with <val>

rust-analyzer: add incorrect case diagnostics for traits and their associated items

rust-analyzer: allow cargo check to run on only the current package

rust-analyzer: completion list suggests constructor like & builder methods first

rust-analyzer: improve support for ignored proc macros

rust-analyzer: introduce term search to rust-analyzer

rust-analyzer: create UnindexedProject notification to be sent to the client

rust-analyzer: substitute $saved_file in custom check commands

rust-analyzer: fix incorrect inlining of functions that come from MBE macros

rust-analyzer: waker_getters tracking issue from 87021 for 96992

rust-analyzer: fix macro transcriber emitting incorrect lifetime tokens

rust-analyzer: fix target layout fetching

rust-analyzer: fix tuple structs not rendering visibility in their fields

rust-analyzer: highlight rustdoc

rust-analyzer: preserve where clause when builtin derive

rust-analyzer: recover from missing argument in call expressions

rust-analyzer: remove unnecessary .as_ref() in generate getter assist

rust-analyzer: validate literals in proc-macro-srv FreeFunctions::literal_from_str

rust-analyzer: implement literal_from_str for proc macro server

rust-analyzer: implement convert to guarded return assist for let statement with type that implements std::ops::Try

Rust Compiler Performance Triage

Relatively balanced results this week, with more improvements than regressions. Some of the larger regressions are not relevant, however there was a real large regression on doc builds, that was caused by a correctness fix (rustdoc was doing the wrong thing before).

Triage done by @kobzol. Revision range: 0984becf..74c3f5a1

Summary:

(instructions:u) mean range count Regressions ❌ (primary) 2.1% [0.2%, 12.0%] 44 Regressions ❌ (secondary) 5.2% [0.2%, 20.1%] 76 Improvements ✅ (primary) -0.7% [-2.4%, -0.2%] 139 Improvements ✅ (secondary) -1.3% [-3.3%, -0.3%] 86 All ❌✅ (primary) -0.1% [-2.4%, 12.0%] 183

6 Regressions, 5 Improvements, 8 Mixed; 5 of them in rollups 53 artifact comparisons made in total

Full report here

Approved RFCs

Changes to Rust follow the Rust RFC (request for comments) process. These are the RFCs that were approved for implementation this week:

eRFC: Iterate on and stabilize libtest's programmatic output

Final Comment Period

Every week, the team announces the 'final comment period' for RFCs and key PRs which are reaching a decision. Express your opinions now.

RFCs

RFC: Rust Has Provenance

Tracking Issues & PRs

Rust

[disposition: close] Implement Future for Option<F>

[disposition: merge] Tracking Issue for min_exhaustive_patterns

[disposition: merge] Make unsafe_op_in_unsafe_fn warn-by-default starting in 2024 edition

Cargo

[disposition: merge] feat: respect rust-version when generating lockfile

New and Updated RFCs

No New or Updated RFCs were created this week.

Call for Testing

An important step for RFC implementation is for people to experiment with the implementation and give feedback, especially before stabilization. The following RFCs would benefit from user testing before moving forward:

RFC: Checking conditional compilation at compile time

Testing steps

If you are a feature implementer and would like your RFC to appear on the above list, add the new call-for-testing label to your RFC along with a comment providing testing instructions and/or guidance on which aspect(s) of the feature need testing.

Upcoming Events

Rusty Events between 2024-02-14 - 2024-03-13 💕 🦀 💕

Virtual

2024-02-15 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn

2024-02-15 | Virtual + In person (Praha, CZ) | Rust Czech Republic

Introduction and Rust in production

2024-02-19 | Virtual (Melbourne, VIC, AU)| Rust Melbourne

(Hybrid - in person & online) February 2024 Rust Melbourne Meetup - Day 1

2024-02-20 | Virtual (Melbourne, VIC, AU) | Rust Melbourne

(Hybrid - in person & online) February 2024 Rust Melbourne Meetup - Day 2

2024-02-20 | Virtual (Washington, DC, US) | Rust DC

Mid-month Rustful

2024-02-20 | Virtual | Rust for Lunch

Lunch

2024-02-21 | Virtual (Cardiff, UK) | Rust and C++ Cardiff

Rust for Rustaceans Book Club: Chapter 2 - Types

2024-02-21 | Virtual (Vancouver, BC, CA) | Vancouver Rust

Rust Study/Hack/Hang-out

2024-02-22 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-02-27 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Last Tuesday

2024-02-29 | Virtual (Berlin, DE) | OpenTechSchool Berlin + Rust Berlin

Rust Hack and Learn | Mirror: Rust Hack n Learn Meetup | Mirror: Berline.rs page

2024-02-29 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Surfing the Rusty Wireless Waves with the ESP32-C3 Board

2024-03-06 | Virtual (Indianapolis, IN, US) | Indy Rust

Indy.rs - with Social Distancing

2024-03-07 | Virtual (Charlottesville, NC, US) | Charlottesville Rust Meetup

Crafting Interpreters in Rust Collaboratively

2024-03-12 | Virtual (Dallas, TX, US) | Dallas Rust

Second Tuesday

2024-03-12 | Hybrid (Virtual + In-person) Munich, DE | Rust Munich

Rust Munich 2024 / 1 - hybrid

Asia

2024-02-17 | New Delhi, IN | Rust Delhi

Meetup #5

Europe

2024-02-15 | Copenhagen, DK | Copenhagen Rust Community

Rust Hacknight #2: Compilers

2024-02-15 | Praha, CZ - Virtual + In-person | Rust Czech Republic

Introduction and Rust in production

2024-02-21 | Lyon, FR | Rust Lyon

Rust Lyon Meetup #8

2024-02-22 | Aarhus, DK | Rust Aarhus

Rust and Talk at Partisia

2024-02-29 | Berlin, DE | Rust Berlin

Rust and Tell - Season start 2024

2024-03-12 | Munich, DE + Virtual | Rust Munich

Rust Munich 2024 / 1 - hybrid

North America

2024-02-15 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Back Bay Rust Lunch, Feb 15

2024-02-15 | Seattle, WA, US | Seattle Rust User Group

Seattle Rust User Group Meetup

2024-02-20 | New York, NY, US | Rust NYC

Rust NYC Monthly Mixer (Moved to Feb 20th)

2024-02-20 | San Francisco, CA, US | San Francisco Rust Study Group

Rust Hacking in Person

2024-02-21 | Boston, MA, US | Boston Rust Meetup

Evening Boston Rust Meetup at Microsoft, February 21

2024-02-22 | Mountain View, CA, US | Mountain View Rust Meetup

Rust Meetup at Hacker Dojo

2024-02-28 | Austin, TX, US | Rust ATX

Rust Lunch - Fareground

2024-03-07 | Mountain View, CA, US | Mountain View Rust Meetup

Rust Meetup at Hacker Dojo

Oceania

2024-02-19 | Melbourne, VIC, AU + Virtual | Rust Melbourne

(Hybrid - in person & online) February 2024 Rust Melbourne Meetup - Day 1

2024-02-20 | Melbourne, VIC, AU + Virtual | Rust Melbourne

(Hybrid - in person & online) February 2024 Rust Melbourne Meetup - Day 2

2024-02-27 | Canberra, ACT, AU | Canberra Rust User Group

February Meetup

2024-02-27 | Sydney, NSW, AU | Rust Sydney

🦀 spire ⚡ & Quick

2024-03-05 | Auckland, NZ | Rust AKL

Rust AKL: Introduction to Embedded Rust + The State of Rust UI

If you are running a Rust event please add it to the calendar to get it mentioned here. Please remember to add a link to the event too. Email the Rust Community Team for access.

Jobs

Please see the latest Who's Hiring thread on r/rust

Quote of the Week

For some weird reason the Elixir Discord community has a distinct lack of programmer-socks-wearing queer furries, at least compared to Rust, or even most other tech-y Discord servers I’ve seen. It caused some weird cognitive dissonance. Why do I feel vaguely strange hanging out online with all these kind, knowledgeable, friendly and compassionate techbro’s? Then I see a name I recognized from elsewhere and my hindbrain goes “oh thank gods, I know for a fact she’s actually a snow leopard in her free time”. Okay, this nitpick is firmly tongue-in-cheek, but the Rust user-base continues to be a fascinating case study in how many weirdos you can get together in one place when you very explicitly say it’s ok to be a weirdo.

– SimonHeath on the alopex Wiki's ElixirNitpicks page

Thanks to Brian Kung for the suggestion!

Please submit quotes and vote for next week!

This Week in Rust is edited by: nellshamrell, llogiq, cdmistman, ericseppanen, extrawurst, andrewpollack, U007D, kolharsam, joelmarcey, mariannegoldin, bennyvasquez.

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Choosing the Right Control Panel for Your Hosting: Plesk vs cPanel Comparison

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Understanding Control Panels

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cPanel: The Trusted Classic

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Distros:

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Affordability:

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Conclusion

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3.Node.js Modules

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5.Core Modules

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• events (Event Emitter)

• util (Utilities)

• os (Operating System)

• path (Path Module)

6.NPM (Node Package Manager)

• Installing Packages

• Creating and Managing package.json

• Semantic Versioning

• NPM Scripts

7.Asynchronous Programming in Node.js

• Callbacks

• Promises

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8.Express.js Framework

• Routing

• Middleware

• Templating Engines (Pug, EJS)

• RESTful APIs

• Error Handling Middleware

9.Working with Databases

• Connecting to Databases (MongoDB, MySQL)

• Mongoose (for MongoDB)

• Sequelize (for MySQL)

• Database Migrations and Seeders

10.Authentication and Authorization

• JSON Web Tokens (JWT)

• Passport.js Middleware

• OAuth and OAuth2

11.Security

• Helmet.js (Security Middleware)

• Input Validation and Sanitization

• Secure Headers

• Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS)

12.Testing and Debugging

• Unit Testing (Mocha, Chai)

• Debugging Tools (Node Inspector)

• Load Testing (Artillery, Apache Bench)

13.API Documentation

• Swagger

• API Blueprint

• Postman Documentation

14.Real-Time Applications

• WebSockets (Socket.io)

• Server-Sent Events (SSE)

• WebRTC for Video Calls

15.Performance Optimization

• Caching Strategies (in-memory, Redis)

• Load Balancing (Nginx, HAProxy)

• Profiling and Optimization Tools (Node Clinic, New Relic)

16.Deployment and Hosting

• Deploying Node.js Apps (PM2, Forever)

• Hosting Platforms (AWS, Heroku, DigitalOcean)

• Continuous Integration and Deployment-(Jenkins, Travis CI)

17.RESTful API Design

• Best Practices

• API Versioning

• HATEOAS (Hypermedia as the Engine-of Application State)

18.Middleware and Custom Modules

• Creating Custom Middleware

• Organizing Code into Modules

• Publish and Use Private NPM Packages

19.Logging

• Winston Logger

• Morgan Middleware

• Log Rotation Strategies

20.Streaming and Buffers

• Readable and Writable Streams

• Buffers

• Transform Streams

21.Error Handling and Monitoring

• Sentry and Error Tracking

• Health Checks and Monitoring Endpoints

22.Microservices Architecture

• Principles of Microservices

• Communication Patterns (REST, gRPC)

• Service Discovery and Load Balancing in Microservices

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[database-integration]

QuickSight vs Tableau: Which One Works Better for Cloud-Based Analytics?

In today’s data-driven business world, choosing the right tool for cloud-based analytics can define the efficiency and accuracy of decision-making processes. Among the top contenders in this space are Amazon QuickSight and Tableau, two leading platforms in data visualization applications. While both offer powerful tools for interpreting and presenting data, they vary significantly in features, pricing, integration capabilities, and user experience.

This article will delve deep into a comparative analysis of QuickSight vs Tableau, evaluating their capabilities in cloud environments, their support for Augmented systems, alignment with current data analysis trends, and suitability for various business needs.

Understanding Cloud-Based Analytics

Cloud-based analytics refers to using remote servers and services to analyze, process, and visualize data. It allows organizations to leverage scalability, accessibility, and reduced infrastructure costs. As businesses migrate to the cloud, choosing tools that align with these goals becomes critical.

Both QuickSight and Tableau offer cloud-based deployments, but they approach it from different perspectives—QuickSight being cloud-native and Tableau adapting cloud support over time.

Amazon QuickSight Overview

Amazon QuickSight is a fully managed data visualization application developed by Amazon Web Services (AWS). It is designed to scale automatically and is embedded with machine learning (ML) capabilities, making it suitable for interactive dashboards and report generation.

Key Features of QuickSight:

Serverless architecture with pay-per-session pricing.

Native integration with AWS services like S3, RDS, Redshift.

Built-in ML insights for anomaly detection and forecasting.

SPICE (Super-fast, Parallel, In-memory Calculation Engine) for faster data processing.

Support for Augmented systems through ML-based features.

Tableau Overview

Tableau is one of the most well-known data visualization applications, offering powerful drag-and-drop analytics and dashboard creation tools. Acquired by Salesforce, Tableau has expanded its cloud capabilities via Tableau Online and Tableau Cloud.

Key Features of Tableau:

Rich and interactive visualizations.

Connects to almost any data source.

Advanced analytics capabilities with R and Python integration.

Strong user community and resources.

Adoption of Augmented systems like Tableau Pulse and Einstein AI (through Salesforce).

Comparative Analysis: QuickSight vs Tableau

1. User Interface and Usability

QuickSight is lightweight and streamlined, designed for business users who need quick insights without technical expertise. However, it may seem less flexible compared to Tableau's highly interactive and customizable dashboards.

Tableau excels in usability for data analysts and power users. Its drag-and-drop interface is intuitive, and it allows for complex manipulations and custom visual storytelling.

Winner: Tableau (for advanced users), QuickSight (for business users and simplicity)

2. Integration and Ecosystem

QuickSight integrates seamlessly with AWS services, which is a big plus for organizations already on AWS. It supports Redshift, Athena, S3, and more, making it an ideal choice for AWS-heavy infrastructures.

Tableau, on the other hand, boasts extensive connectors to a vast range of data sources, from cloud platforms like Google Cloud and Azure to on-premise databases and flat files.

Winner: Tie – depends on your existing cloud infrastructure.

3. Performance and Scalability

QuickSight's SPICE engine allows users to perform analytics at lightning speed without impacting source systems. Since it’s serverless, scalability is handled automatically by AWS.

Tableau provides robust performance but requires configuration and optimization, especially in self-hosted environments. Tableau Online and Cloud offer better scalability but may incur higher costs.

Winner: QuickSight

4. Cost Structure

QuickSight offers a pay-per-session pricing model, which can be highly economical for organizations with intermittent users. For example, you only pay when a user views a dashboard.

Tableau follows a user-based subscription pricing model, which can become expensive for large teams or casual users.

Winner: QuickSight

5. Support for Augmented Systems

QuickSight integrates ML models and offers natural language querying through Q (QuickSight Q), allowing users to ask business questions in natural language and receive answers instantly. This is a great example of how Augmented systems are becoming more mainstream.

Tableau, through its parent company Salesforce, is integrating Augmented systems like Einstein Discovery. It provides predictions and AI-powered insights directly within dashboards.

Winner: Tableau (more mature and integrated AI/ML features through Salesforce)

6. Alignment with Data Analysis Trends

Both platforms are aligned with modern data analysis trends, including real-time data streaming, AI/ML integration, and predictive analytics.

QuickSight is riding the wave of serverless architecture and real-time analytics.

Tableau is advancing toward collaborative analytics and AI-driven insights, especially after Salesforce’s acquisition.

Tableau Pulse is a recent feature that reflects current data analysis trends, helping users get real-time alerts and updates without logging into the dashboard.

Winner: Tableau (more innovations aligned with emerging data analysis trends)

7. Collaboration and Sharing

In QuickSight, collaboration is limited to dashboard sharing and email reports. While effective, it lacks some of the deeper collaboration capabilities of Tableau.

Tableau enables shared workbooks, annotations, embedded analytics, and enterprise-level collaboration across teams, especially when integrated with Salesforce.

Winner: Tableau

8. Data Security and Compliance

Both platforms offer enterprise-grade security features:

QuickSight benefits from AWS's robust security and compliance frameworks (HIPAA, GDPR, etc.).

Tableau also supports a wide range of compliance requirements, with added security controls available through Tableau Server.

Winner: Tie

9. Customization and Extensibility

Tableau offers superior extensibility with support for Python, R, JavaScript API, and more. Developers can build custom dashboards and integrations seamlessly.

QuickSight, while customizable, offers fewer extensibility options. It focuses more on ease-of-use than flexibility.

Winner: Tableau

10. Community and Support

Tableau has one of the largest user communities, with forums, certifications, user groups, and an active marketplace.

QuickSight is newer and has a smaller but growing community, primarily centered around AWS forums and documentation.

Winner: Tableau

Use Case Comparison

Use CaseBest ToolAWS-Native WorkloadsQuickSightComplex Dashboards & VisualizationsTableauOccasional Dashboard ViewersQuickSightAdvanced Analytics and ModelingTableauTight Budget and Cost ControlQuickSightCollaborative Enterprise AnalyticsTableau

The Verdict: Which Works Better for Cloud-Based Analytics?

Choosing between QuickSight vs Tableau depends heavily on your specific business needs, existing cloud ecosystem, and user types.

Choose QuickSight if you’re already using AWS extensively, have a limited budget, and need fast, scalable, and easy-to-use data visualization applications.

Choose Tableau if you need rich customization, are heavily invested in Salesforce, or have data analysts and power users requiring advanced functionality and support for Augmented systems.

In terms of data analysis trends, Tableau is more in tune with cutting-edge features like collaborative analytics, embedded AI insights, and proactive alerts. However, QuickSight is rapidly closing this gap, especially with features like QuickSight Q and natural language queries.

Conclusion

Both QuickSight and Tableau are excellent platforms in their own right, each with its strengths and limitations. Organizations must consider their long-term data strategy, scalability requirements, team expertise, and cost constraints before choosing the best fit.

As data analysis trends evolve, tools will continue to adapt. Whether it’s through more intuitive data visualization applications, AI-driven Augmented systems, or better collaboration features, the future of analytics is undeniably in the cloud. By choosing the right tool today, businesses can set themselves up for more informed, agile, and strategic decision-making tomorrow.

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SEO Depends on Site Health—And That Includes Cron Monitoring

When it comes to SEO, we often focus on content creation, keyword optimization, link building, and user experience. But beneath all of that lies a foundation that’s often ignored: site infrastructure and automation reliability. One of the most critical but overlooked components is cron job monitoring.

Cron jobs are automated tasks that power many behind-the-scenes SEO operations. When they silently fail, your site may still appear to function, but your SEO could be taking a serious hit. That’s why monitoring cron jobs with tools like WebStatus247 isn’t optional—it’s essential.

🛠 What Are Cron Jobs and Why Do They Matter for SEO?

A cron job is a time-based task scheduler in Unix-like systems. Web servers use cron jobs to automatically execute scripts at specific intervals—every hour, day, week, or custom frequency.

Here’s how they directly impact SEO:

Sitemap Automation: Keeping your sitemap updated and notifying search engines ensures faster indexing.

Cache Management: Clearing expired cache files helps maintain site speed.

Broken Link Checks: Regularly removing dead links improves crawlability and user trust.

Scheduled Content Publishing: Timely content updates signal fresh activity to search engines.

Image Optimization: Automatically resizing or compressing new uploads to maintain fast load times.

Without cron jobs doing these tasks, your site can gradually lose technical integrity—hurting everything from crawl budgets to page speed scores.

⚠️ Real-World Scenarios Where Cron Job Failures Hurt SEO

🔄 Sitemap Never Updates

Let’s say your sitemap.xml file hasn’t updated in weeks because the cron job failed. Google doesn’t know you’ve added 20 new blog posts. These pages stay unindexed—missing out on traffic, impressions, and ranking potential.

🧱 Broken Links Go Undetected

You have a cron job that runs a script to identify broken internal links. One day it silently fails. You continue publishing content, unaware that dozens of pages now link to 404 errors. Google starts lowering your site's quality score.

⏳ Sluggish Load Times

Your database cleanup cron job fails. As junk data builds up, your queries slow down and page load speed drops. This affects your Core Web Vitals, which are now a direct ranking factor in Google.

🕒 Missed Content Scheduling

You queue up posts for the next week—product updates, blog articles, promotional pages. But the publishing cron job crashes. Your audience sees no updates, and Google sees an inactive site.

✅ Why You Must Monitor Cron Jobs—Not Just Set Them

Setting up a cron job isn’t enough. They can:

Fail due to coding errors

Be interrupted by server issues

Get blocked by firewalls or security plugins

Conflict with other scripts

Be disabled during hosting migrations

And most importantly: they don’t usually alert you when something breaks. This is where WebStatus247 steps in.

🧩 How WebStatus247 Helps With SEO-Focused Cron Monitoring

WebStatus247 Cron Job Monitoring gives you full control and visibility over your automation stack. Features include:

🛑 Failure Detection: Get notified if a scheduled task doesn’t run or crashes.

📅 Custom Monitoring Intervals: Track hourly, daily, or even by-the-minute jobs.

📬 Real-Time Alerts: Receive instant alerts via email or SMS when things go wrong.

📈 Logging and Dashboards: View detailed logs to troubleshoot quickly and prevent repeat issues.

🔒 Secure Status URLs: Use simple HTTP or webhook pings for status confirmation.

By integrating this tool, you make sure your SEO tasks—especially technical SEO jobs—run like clockwork.

🔍 Technical SEO + Cron Jobs: A Perfect Pair

SEO experts and digital marketers know that technical SEO is just as critical as content. Google rewards websites that are fast, accessible, and technically sound.

Monitoring your cron jobs means you're doing the following:

Maintaining sitemap freshness

Avoiding broken or outdated links

Ensuring content freshness

Improving uptime and stability

Keeping page speed fast and lean

If you run backups, link audits, caching tasks, or image optimization via cron, these all contribute indirectly—but powerfully—to your SEO edge.

🧠 Final Thoughts: Don't Let Silent Failures Kill Your Rankings

SEO isn’t just about what's visible—it's also about the systems that support your site. If your background tasks aren’t monitored, they can quietly fail, and your rankings may drop before you even realize there’s a problem.

✅ WebStatus247 ensures that never happens.

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TV Derana’s (Ada Derana) partners with Workflowlabs to transform its news broadcasting operations

Workflowlabs proudly announces a successful collaboration with TV Derana’s flagship and Sri Lanka’s only 24×7 news  channel “Ada Derana ”. This strategic partnership represents a significant milestone in enhancing TV Derana’s news broadcasting capabilities.

In this transformative project, Workflowlabs introduced a suite of cutting-edge tools, including:

Nitro Video Servers: Enhancing video processing reliability, ensuring uninterrupted broadcasting.

Karthavya QuickEdge Automation: Streamlining operations, improving workflow efficiency, and minimizing manual intervention. Timely content delivery is now seamless.

Fusion MAM (Media Asset Management): A unified platform for easy storage, retrieval, and organization of media assets.

Cobalt Transcoder: Effortlessly converts media files to various formats, supporting a wide range of video codecs.

Dell-EMC Storage and Networking: Scalable, high-performance all-flash storage and high-speed core networking.

Notably, this collaboration achieved flawless project execution with zero downtime during migration a testament to Workflowlabs and TV Derana’s unwavering commitment to exceptional service and viewer experiences.

We extend our heartfelt gratitude to our esteemed partner, Metaliv Media Labs, for their pivotal role in the seamless execution of this project.

As TV Derana continues to lead in the Sri Lankan media landscape, Workflowlabs remains a trusted partner, propelling them toward technological advancement and growth. Originally Published at - Workflowlabs (TV Derana & WorkflowLabs Partner for End‑to‑End News Broadcast Overhaul)