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8 Business Benefits of Ephemeral Environments

In today's rapidly evolving world of software development, ephemeral environments have emerged as a game-changer. These disposable, isolated instances for development, testing, and deployment purposes are revolutionizing the way applications are built and delivered. Let's explore the 8 business benefits of ephemeral environments and how they can accelerate development and deployment processes.

How telco companies can reduce 5G infrastructure costs with open source

5G has the potential to revolutionise the telecommunications industry, offering high speed and connectivity for a wide range of devices ranging from radio access networks (RAN), user equipment (UE), and core networks. However, the high costs associated with 5G infrastructure have been a significant blocker for adoption, hindering innovation and growth in this area. This blog discusses the primary challenges faced in the telecom industry and how open source technologies are helping to resolve them.

How To Enable QUIC Load Balancing on HAProxy

HTTP/3 is the latest generation of the HTTP protocol, and its ability to serve applications over QUIC offers several advantages for user experience, including reduced latency, improved reliability, and faster page loading as a result of fixing the head-of-line blocking issue in previous versions of HTTP. Both HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise offer support for using HTTP/3 over QUIC, although the steps for enabling QUIC in HAProxy and HAProxy Enterprise are different.

6 Key Factors to Consider When Choosing a Website Platform

Choosing the right website platform is an important decision for anyone looking to establish a solid online presence. In fact, choosing the wrong website platform has exposed brands to issues like security breaches, poor mobile responsiveness, and terrible load speeds. To buttress the last point, Google research showed that 32% of users would leave your website if it experiences poor load speed. In other words, they want a good user experience.

What is NetFlow Analyzer?

In today’s interconnected world, network administrators face the daunting task of managing and securing complex networks. To effectively monitor network traffic and optimize performance, they require comprehensive insights into the data flows within their infrastructure. NetFlow Analyzer is an analytics tool that monitors network traffic flow. It leverages the ability of flow technologies to offer visibility in real time.

A holistic approach to securing Spark-based data engineering

Apache Spark is an open-source toolkit that helps users develop parallel, distributed data engineering and machine learning applications and run them at scale. In this webinar, Rob Gibbon – product manager, and Massimiliano Gori – senior information security lead, will survey the state of big data security best practices and outline both high level architectures and pragmatic steps that you can take to secure your Spark applications – wherever they may be running.

Understanding the network edge and edge networking

Generally speaking, a network ‘edge’ is the boundary between two separate networks - where one network ends and another begins. Edges are important, primarily from a security standpoint as they define the jurisdictions owned by different parties, and ‘the edge’ has become a more popular topic of conversation recently through trends which see network resources moved from centralised locations to network edges to make them closer to the end user.