Recently, there has been a string of attacks affecting some ransomware victims who pay their ransom in an attempt to regain access to their encrypted data. These ransom payments are being intercepted by a third party, ironcally turning the ransomware attackers into the second victim. As a result, the original ransomware victims are victimized a second time, as they won’t get their data back since the ransomware attackers never receive the ransom money.

Providing users with the best possible software is always the number one priority. But doing so in a fast-paced, ever-changing technology landscape isn’t a simple task. Learn fundamental deployment methods for continuous delivery.

Different cloud environments can prove to be more fruitful for different teams, based on size, budget, or specific needs. A deeper understanding of each cloud deployment model will allow you to make the most informed decision. Get a crash course on hybrid cloud, community cloud, private cloud, and public cloud models.

Faultless websites, online stores or web apps simply don’t exist. Despite an exemplary infrastructure, duplicated systems and excellent mechanisms, something can always go wrong.We offer you a proven process that you can apply in a crisis situation – adapting it accordingly to your conditions, of course.

In the age of the modern website architecture where websites experience little downtime, slow is the new down. A slowdown on a website has been proven to have a negative effect on conversion rates and end user experience. With that in mind, we’ve updated our uptime monitoring to alert you to slow response times.

We are pleased to share that Uptrends is the latest monitoring service to be added as an integration in StatusHub.

With newest version of AppBeat you can now periodically run Whois for your domain.

Here at Skylight, we love all things open source. Many of us on the Skylight team are open source contributors ourselves. From our own experiences, we know that many people are excited about the idea of contributing to their favorite open source apps, but they don’t always necessarily know where to start.

The general advice I’ve been receiving in the past few years is that in business, it’s almost never a good idea to rewrite the core platform from scratch. Not even Uncle Bob, in his Clean Code video training sessions, recommends it.

This small release introduces custom stages, stage-level configuration overrides, instant rollbacks and a few other refinements for Up the serverless deployment tool.