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Serverless Meetup Recap - AWS CloudFormation with Yves Gurcan

Team Stackery has been hosting the PDX Serverless Architecture meetup at our Portland office since June of 2018, although the meetup began the year before. It’s always great to see repeat visitors and new faces, and especially to see our community change over the months. In February, we had an entertaining, dynamic, and knowledgeable speaker in Yves Gurcan.

Connecting Ethereum

ETHDenver connects developers, technologists, cypher punks, coders, crypto-economists, designers and makers to build on Ethereum, making it the perfect place to debut Splunk Connect for Ethereum. The use cases we saw added observability to blockchains like Ethereum mainnet and sidechains in real time. As the event went on, use cases and requests continued to pop up (which you'll see below); the app was used to index not just ethereum mainnet, but also sidechains such as xDai and OST Mosaic.

Understanding Element Waterfalls

Website speed and functionality are incredibly important. They directly affect the experience a user has and if they’ll make a purchase, contact the company or simply return again. Understanding Element Waterfalls can help identify issues such as slow load times and poor rendering which can quickly deter a user and impact their trust in your services. RapidSpike Page Performance Monitors (PPMs) load your web pages in real browsers and record Element Waterfalls in order to help find issues.

Azure API App vs Web App

Azure App Service, one of the most used among the Azure offered Services. When the requirement is to host web applications, REST APIs, and mobile back ends, Azure App Service is the go-to Http- based solution. Apps hosted in Azure App Service can be integrated with on-premises or cloud services. It supports both the Windows and Linux-based environments to run and scale the applications.

IT security: Keep calm and monitor PowerShell

In our last release of the PowerShell security series, we talked about how PowerShell could be leveraged by malicious actors to gain unprecedented access to your organization’s critical assets. From enumerating sensitive domain information and carrying out credential-based attacks to running malicious executables in memory (file-less malware), we shined a light on the potential of PowerShell and why it’s an ideal weapon for cyber attackers today.

How SkySilk Cloud Services uses Grafana dashboards

Stefano Mitchell is a customer support engineer at SkySilk Cloud Services. It’s no secret that there is a correlation between a team having quick access to metrics and swift resolutions. Accurate monitoring metrics displayed in a clear and efficient manner help your teams respond to alerts and issues as they arise in real time. SkySilk Cloud Services, a cloud services provider, uses Grafana dashboards internally to maintain a strong overview of regional system health.

Using AI to Auto-Detect and Remediate Incidents

Today, the number of possible failure modes in cloud and microservices applications are exploding, making it increasingly difficult to gain true observability and take the right action across IT environments. According to Lightstep’s Global Microservices Trends report, 91% of teams are using or have plans to use microservices, but 73% report it is harder to troubleshoot application performance problems due to greater complexity.

Continuous Releases with Travis CI and Sentry

Here at Sentry, we use Travis CI, a continuous integration tool for GitHub that lets us automate our tests and view the results right within each pull request. In this blog post, we’ll walk through a quick example of how to automatically create Sentry Releases with Travis CI when a commit is pushed to your project’s master branch. (Sentry Releases enable some of our best features, like identifying the commits that likely introduced new errors, and much more!)

HTML to PDF API

We are releasing our HTML to PDF REST API to public preview: https://html2pdf.appbeat.io/ We are using this tool internally for generation of various PDF documents. It uses Chrome engine for HTML rendering and creates really nice looking documents. It supports synchronous and asynchronous operation where you can be notified about PDF conversion result via webhook.