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How Droplr Uses Sentry to Debug Serverless Applications

Antoni Orfin, Chief Architect at Droplr, has years of hands-on experience building scalable web applications that serve traffic for millions of users across the globe. His journey started with bare-metal infrastructures. Then, he dove deep into cloud. Today, he’s responsible for making things run smoothly on state-of-the-art serverless architecture at Droplr.

SnapSecChat: The Demand for Security as a Service

Before you roll your eyes at another “as a service” term, listen to what Sumo Logic CSO George Gerchow has to say about it in this latest SnapSecChat video series. The reason why offering solutions “as a service” has become so widespread is because that’s the way it should be done, especially with security.

Logz.io Available on the AWS Marketplace

The AWS marketplace gives users access to a large variety of SaaS and API products that can be easily found, subscribed to and used. One of the biggest advantages for users is the ability to benefit from an easier procurement and payment process — users can use their existing paying terms with AWS, and unify billing across all the AWS services they are consuming, including those offered in the marketplace. Logz.io is now available on the AWS SaaS Marketplace.

How to prepare for and communicate during downtime

The unfortunate reality about running a web service is that every now and again, you’re going to have downtime. Even the best web companies have the occasional blip in service. If downtime is inevitable, then it’s best to plan ahead so that you can be ready. After all, prior preparation prevents poor performance.

SCIPY STACK VS. INFLUXDB AND GRAFANA

Scientific python programmers adore Pandas due to its many functionalities. In particular, for data manipulation and analysis it offers handy data structures and operations for numerical tables and time series. Combined with the rest of the SciPy stack and scikit-learn (e.g. for Machine Learning Analysis), multiple goals can be achieved. When it comes to on-line data analysis, interaction, or simple data navigation by multiple users, the SciPy stack can be stressed to its limits.

GRAFANA AND Flux

The new Flux (formerly IFQL) super-charges queries both for analytics and data science. David gave a quick overview of the language features as well as the moving parts for a working deployment. Grafana is an open source dashboard solution that shares Flux’s passion for analytics and data science. For that reason, they are very excited to showcase the new Flux support within Grafana, and a couple of common analytics use cases to get the most out of your data.