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Why (And How) Software Companies Should Pivot To Cost-Conscious Innovation

Investors have fallen back in love with profitability. This followed an almost two decade love affair with top-line revenue growth. The growth-at-all-costs paradigm enabled what I call cost-agnostic innovation: If it brings in more customers and revenue, build it — no matter how much it costs. When cash is abundant, investors can afford long-term risk, and cost-agnostic innovation works.

[Live Webinar] Achieving Multi-Datacenter High Availability with HAProxy ALOHA and GSLB

HAProxy ALOHA is a load balancer that’s ideal for companies in search of high performance and ease of use. It comes as either a hardware appliance or a virtual appliance and provides load balancing of TCP, UDP and HTTP traffic, DDoS protection, and active-active clustering. One of its newest features is the ability to distribute traffic across multiple datacenters or regions through global server load balancing(GSLB).

Cilium - eBPF Powered Networking, Security & Observability

In this session by Raymond de Jong, Senior Solutions Architect at Isovalent, you'll discover how Cilium with eBPF increases networking performance while providing identity and application-aware security and visibility for your cloud-native workloads. We will also look at Hubble; Cilium's fully distributed networking and security observability platform, and how eBPF enables deep visibility into the communication and behavior of services and networking infrastructure in a completely transparent manner.

Learn how our Chief Troublemaker transformed infrastructure troubleshooting.

When no available tool could help Costa Tsaousis identify his own infrastructure problem, he invented one that could. Netdata’s founder, CEO, and Chief Troublemaker tells how his invention went viral, how the Netdata Way transforms monitoring and troubleshooting, and how he plans to keep Netdata free, forever.

What is IaC?

I recently had a wonderful opportunity to contribute to the Computer Weekly Developer Network (CWDN) ultimate series on “Infrastructure as Code” that collected articles and overviews from vendors and experts operating in the IaC space to form a formidable reference on all aspects of IaC. My contributions were to offer some insight into our architecture that has been designed to monitor infrastructure that has been deployed as code automatically and without tedious manual configuration.

Leading provider of digital, cloud and advisory services reduced time-to-resolve issues by 1400% with VirtualMetric

A leading provider of innovative digital and cloud services, part of the Microsoft ecosystem, chose VirtualMetric to get critical insights and complete visibility over their cloud environment. With 38,000 professionals in 24 countries, the company is specialized in cloud and application services, managed services, analytics, AI and helps companies to implement the latest technologies to various industries, leveraging the Microsoft platform.

Announcement: RepliByte - an open-source tool to synchronize your cloud databases and hide sensitive data

After weeks of hard work, we are super excited to announce RepliByte - an open-source tool to synchronize your cloud databases from one place to the other while hiding sensitive data 🛡

April/2022 - CVE-2022-22965: Spring4Shell Remote Code Execution Mitigation

Recently, a Remote Code Execution vulnerability was discovered in the Java Spring Core library. This vulnerability allows attackers to execute arbitrary code on affected systems. You can find more information on that vulnerability in the announcement on the Spring Blog. While HAProxy Enterprise, HAProxy ALOHA, and other products within the HAProxy Technologies portfolio are not impacted by this (they do not use the Spring Core library at all), you can use our products to mitigate the attack.