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Automated App Discovery - CloudHedge Discover

Using Application X-Ray, CloudHedge's Discovery tool automatically discovers Windows IIS and Linux applications within minutes instead of days or weeks. Post discovery process, the tool showcases all the relationships and dependencies between services, processes, and hosts which are necessary for containerization on a user-friendly dashboard. CloudHedge’s Discover tool supports enterprise Windows and Linux operating systems right from Windows 2003, Java, .Net, PHP, Python, JBoss, TomCat type of applications.

How to Be a Financially Conscious Site Reliability Engineer

Site reliability engineers (SREs) are the glue between “Dev” and “Ops,” ensuring that software engineering expertise is applied to operations challenges. SREs naturally focus on making systems more reliable, efficient, and scalable. If you’re an SRE yourself, you’re already deeply familiar with these ideas.

Serverless from Scratch

Openfit is a new fitness streaming service by Beachbody that streams hundreds of thousands of hours of video to tens of thousands of users each month with a 100% serverless architecture. From development to testing and production workloads, Reza Javidi (Director of DevOps & SRE) shares best practices his teams have developed for scaling and securing serverless workloads—both in terms of traffic and development velocity.

A Technical Analysis of the Capital One Hack

The recent disclosure of yet another cloud security misconfiguration leading to the loss of sensitive personal information made the headlines this past week. This particular incident came with a bit more information from the indictment of the accused party, allowing us to piece together the revealed data and take an educated guess as to what may have transpired leading up to the loss of over 100 million credit card applications and 100 thousand social security numbers.