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Five reasons to choose Log360, part 5: Integrated compliance management

So far in this blog series, we’ve seen how Log360 is simple to get up and running, allows you to receive a central view of multiple environments, provides deep auditing capabilities across these environments, and comes with advanced security features to deal with all manner of security incidents. In the concluding post of this blog series, we’ll look at another highly essential component of SIEM solutions: integrated compliance management.

How the k6 Load Testing Tool Is Leveraging Grafana

Like Grafana Labs, my company, Load Impact, is built on open source. When we set out to build the k6 load testing tool, we knew we wanted to offer a purely open source stack. We’ve done performance testing for the better part of the past 15 years. When we looked at the market a couple of years ago, we saw a lot of both commercial and open source tools, and they were mostly either too simple or too complex. Additionally, there was nothing designed specifically for developers.

Squared Up 4.3 is now available for download!

We are delighted to announce the availability of Squared Up version 4.3, continuing our approach of bringing you frequent updates to the product. Version 4.2 was released just two months ago, and 4.1 two months before that. Each new release brings bug fixes, quality improvements and in this case some cool new features too. For a demo of these new features take a look at the webinar 'Squared Up – v4.3 Release'.

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RDProtector: Automatically blocking malicious IPs from RDP with EventSentry

The recently discovered BlueKeep RDP vulnerability reminds us yet again (as if needed to be reminded) that monitoring RDP is not a luxury but an absolute necessity. Many organizations still expose RDP ports to the Internet, making it a prime target for attacks. But even when RDP is only available internally it can still pose a threat – especially for large networks.

Upload Source Maps to Rollbar

In production, the most important advantage of using a build tool like webpack is a smaller size and thus improved overall application performance. Although beneficial for our users, the bundled and minified code is harder to debug for developers as the code they have written doesn't map 1:1 to error stack traces. Multiple tools for minifying, bundling and transpiring JavaScript modules can generate source maps along with the resulting code.

Kubernetes and the Data Layer

Once you get your head around the concept of containers, and subsequently the need for management and orchestration with tools like Kubernetes, what started off as a weekend project suddenly starts to raise more questions than answers. Kubernetes removes much of the complexity of managing the interaction between applications and the underlying infrastructure. It is designed to let developers focus on the applications and solutions rather than worrying about the complexity of the hosting platform.

If You Build It, They Won't Come: 5 Big, Scary and Costly e-Commerce Site Mistakes

If You Build It, They Won’t Come: 5 Big, Scary and Costly e-Commerce Site Mistakes In the 1989 flick Field of Dreams, Kevin Costner turns his Iowa cornfield into a baseball field because a voice tells him: if you build it, he will come. The “he” in question is his late father, and the movie has a magical, uplifting ending that makes us want to dream again (and possibly, play baseball or eat some corn).

Calculating MTTR: An Evolution Driven by the Rise of DevOps

The shift to cloud computing and the DevOps revolution have fueled some important changes in the way we think about software development and monitoring. It has delivered huge benefits to the companies that have fully embraced the approach. In fact, the DevOps Research and Assessment (DORA) 2018 industry survey found a new small group of “elite” performers that are deploying code far more often and having a far better mean time to resolution (MTTR) than the next closest group.

AMP vs. PWA - All You Should Know

The world of mobile phones is growing at a higher pace by changing the face of digital publishing. Such a rapid change is figured out from Google as it has led to the development of new handful technology which is designed for delivering faster and richer mobile experiences to the users. This is related to the Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) by Google and Progressive Web Application (PWA).

Useful tools to manage your application's secrets

When you build and deploy an application, chances are that you need to store some form of secrets. These are typically things like credentials for 3rd party systems and database credentials. As an ASP.NET Core developer, Microsoft provides you with an easy way to store secrets like these in your development environment, namely the Secret Manager.