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ServerlessDays Nashville & the serverless mindset

Whether you help architect serverless applications at work or you’re just getting started in the community, chances are you’ve caught wind of a ServerlessDays event. Each one gathers members of a local community to talk about where serverless technology currently stands and where it’s going. The best part is that they are a true community event, built by and for serverless users.

Optimizing a Golang service to reduce over 40% CPU

10 years ago, Google was facing a critical bottleneck caused by extremely prolonged C++ compilation times and needed a totally new way to solve it. Google engineers tackled the challenge by creating a new language called Go (aka Golang). The new language of Go borrows the best parts of C++, (most notably it’s performance and security features) and combines it with the speed of Python to enable Go to quickly use multiple cores while being able to implement concurrency.

How much does a status page cost?

Keeping your customers informed of the status of your website, application, or service is essential nowadays. If you don’t have a status page to communicate this, you’re missing an opportunity to improve transparency and reduce customer support burden. This is especially true if you are running an online business and your website is your main source of income, a status page is crucial not only for your business but for your customers as well.

Introduction to Helm 3 the Package Manager for Kubernetes

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes (like yum, apt and home brew ) that allows easily package, configure, and deploy applications onto Kubernetes clusters. Helm charts are packages (like debs and rpms) It contains pre-configured kubernetes resources such as ConfigMaps, Deployments ,StatefulSet manifests, PersistentVolumes and editable settings for them.

5.4 Million Customers Risk Credit Card Theft with Khaadi

During research into client side attacks, we recently observed a skimmer loading on the popular Pakistani fashion website, Khaadi. Khaadi is a global brand including seven stores in the UK and the company boasts over 5.4 million followers on social media. Khaadi have faced negative press recently, after an uproar about inhuman workplace conditions in 2017, and narrowingly avoiding going into administration in 2019.

Flip your thinking to find the right incident management KPIs

Setting and tracking key performance indicators based on the right data can help incident management teams reduce the impact of incidents and strengthen the business. But what exactly is the right data? That can be a deceptively tricky question. Incidents are complex, and no two are exactly the same – and your KPIs must reflect this complexity.

Integrating Palo Alto with Logz.io's Cloud SIEM

First things first, why would you want to collect logs from Palo Alto and send them to a Cloud SIEM? There are many reasons. At its core, having a centralized location with a consistent user experience for managing alerts, notifications, and information coming from the technologies securing your environment can provide value in a lot of ways. In this blog, we’ll discuss how to collect, parse, and analyze Palo Alto logs in Logz.io Cloud SIEM, and how it can help secure your cloud workloads.

The GitOps Kubernetes Connection

In the first article in this series, we talked about making Kubernetes essential to your DevOps pipeline. We reviewed CI/CD and DevOps and why their relationship with Kubernetes is so powerful. In this article, I’m going to dive into another term in the application development and management mix: GitOps. We’ll cover what GitOps is, how it affects an organization and how it aligns with Kubernetes.