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Can Data Lakes Accelerate Building ML Data Pipelines?

A common challenge in data engineering is to combine traditional data warehousing and BI reporting with experiment-driven machine learning projects. Many data scientists tend to work more with Python and ML frameworks rather than SQL. Therefore, their data needs are often different from those of data analysts. In this article, we’ll explore why having a data lake often provides tremendous help for data science use cases.

Dashbird becomes SOC 2 compliant

We are pleased to announce that as of 13th April 2021, Dashbird has successfully completed its SOC 2 Type 2 audit. SOC 2 engagements are based on the AICPA’s Trust Service Criteria. SOC 2 audit reports focus on a Service Organization’s non-financial reporting controls as they relate to the Security of a system. The audit was conducted by Dansa D’Arata Soucia LLP.

Up Close Monitoring with SignalFlow

It’s April, and that means it’s Mathematics and Statistic Awareness month. And in our everyday world of monitoring and observability, both play an ever-increasing role in how we keep track of our environments, both our apps and our infrastructure. Our world is no longer about just pinging the server/app to make sure “It’s alive!”.

Using Telegraf to Collect Infrastructure Performance Metrics

Telegraf is a server-based agent for collecting all kinds of metrics for further processing. It’s a piece of software that you can install anywhere in your infrastructure and it will read metrics from specified sources – typically application logs, events, or data outputs.

Thoughts On the Codecov Breach

It was revealed just a few days ago that US Federal investigators are looking into an intrusion and insertion of malicious code into Codecov. As many readers here will already know, Codecov is a software auditing tool that analyses your source code to check for the amount of test coverage. The intrusion targeted the Codecov bash uploader, which is a script that provides a way to send coverage reports to Codecov.

Building and running FIPS containers on Ubuntu

Whether running on the public cloud or a private cloud, the use of containers is ingrained in today’s devops oriented workflows. Having workloads set up to run under the mandated compliance requirements is thus necessary to fully exploit the potential of containers. This article focuses on how to build and run containers that comply with the US and Canada government FIPS140-2 data protection standard.

InfluxDB's Checks and Notifications System

InfluxDB 2.0’s Checks and Notifications system is likely the most powerful and flexible system available for creating alerts based on time series data. To get the most out of the system, it is helpful to understand the different pieces and how they fit together. After reading this article, you should be able to create precise alerting using the InfluxDB 2.0 User Interface (UI), as well as be able to extend and customize the system to suit your specific needs.

Creating a Culture of DevSecOps

Security is hard to get right in a world of continuous delivery and containers. The increasingly diverse technology landscape and relentless speed of innovation afford us no time to step back and take stock of our risks, and even less time to perform remediation. In the past, we could perform point-in-time security audits, which was OK when our systems were mostly static, save a quarterly release. But that’s not the world we live in today.

Top 3 priorities to enhance customer experience

The retail, banking, telecom, and tech sectors have been trying to prove their love of customer experience (CX) for years. But the COVID-19 pandemic has underscored the need to elevate those vital customer relationships. German shoemaker Adidas is a case in point. In November 2020, it reported strong quarter-over-quarter performance.