While creating a Docker image, one of the most important decisions to make is what base image to use. In this post I’ll compare three kinds of base images for you.

As the Coronavirus crisis unfolds and all of us struggle to understand its implications and to adapt, many thoughts come to mind on many different levels – personal, business related, philosophical. This event is definitely a game changer, in the near future for sure – and many say in the long run as well.

Cost-efficiency is one of the main pillars of the Serverless Well-Architected framework. Read-intensive applications can save money and improve efficiency by using cache systems. AWS Lambda’s internal memory could be used as a caching mechanism. A Lambda container remains alive after an invocation is served, even if it stays idle for some time. Whatever was loaded in the container’s memory will remain there for the next invocations.

The most common integration type for AWS API Gateway is with Lambda functions. The API service can integrate with virtually any other service that accepts HTTP requests, though. This opens up possibilities to use the API Gateway as a proxy to database queries, without any compute layer such as a Lambda function. The direct integration between API and database is perfect when Lambda serves only as an intermediator.

In this article I’m going to show you three quick and easy ways to enrich your AWS log data in Sumo Logic using fields. Fields is a feature of Sumo shipped in 2019 as part of our Kubernetes monitoring solution and is how the fluentd pipeline adds Kubernetes metadata like service and pod to each log event. It’s also really handy for enriching each log event from AWS with fields.

If you started reading this post thinking I would explain why you should go for ROS when building robots, think again. To be fair, that topic deserves a post of its own. But for this article, I’ll be using Go in the context of Golang. As in the Go programming language. As in the one designed by Google with an adorable Gopher for a mascot. Specifically, we will talk about ROS client libraries for the Go programming language; their features, their advantages, and what gaps still remain.

Everyone knows the existential question: If a tree falls in the forest, and nobody is there to hear it, does it make a sound? Leading-edge customer service management today has produced a corollary: If a network problem is fixed before the customer even suspects there’s an issue, did it even happen?

New distribution partnerships will support increased demand for InfluxDB across the region SAN FRANCISCO — April 29, 2020 — InfluxData, creator of the time series database InfluxDB, today announced its expansion into the Asia-Pacific (APAC) region through new strategic partnerships. Digital China and Hyundai BS&C will be the exclusive value-added distributors of InfluxDB in China and South Korea, respectively. The company also teamed up with Intellify, a reseller in Australia.

It’s only taken me two years, but I’ve finally answered a question that I was asked by Derek King – “Can we use ML to detect botnets?” Thanks Derek, that was a pretty heavy question to be asked in your first week at Splunk, especially when you have no Splunk experience… You can judge the results here using the Botnet App for Splunk.

Recently, my colleagues Ryan Kovar and Lily Lee created TA-covidIOCs, which is a Splunk TA designed for ingesting IOCs related to COVID-19. Per usual, I immediately saw this as an opportunity to hitch a ride on their coattails and benefit from their hard work. The product of this effort is a Splunk Phantom playbook uncreativly titled, "COVID-19 Indicator Check." The playbook is a simple, self-contained set of actions that takes MD5 file hashes, IPs, domains, and URLs as input.