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REST API Observability for Python

In this blog post we’ll help answer the age old question, “What does this service talk to and what does it say?” We’ll see how to inspect inbound and outbound REST API calls to see what calls are being made and what incoming traffic causes a reaction. This can be pretty handy when you’re taking over maintenance of an existing service, or if your code just isn’t behaving the way you expect.

Looking back at our journey through 2021!

As we step into another year, its time to reflect back on our most memorable moments & milestones that tell the story of Squadcast in 2021. 😇 The last 12 months have been nothing short of a spectacular journey for us as a company. We raised funding (Yaay!🙌), launched an open-source tool called SLO Tracker, helped organizations globally improve their reliability and made on-call shifts in general less stressful. Here’s how our year went by.

2021 Year In Review

Most days at Cycle, we go through the day-to-day grind; checking tasks off our endless to-do list, looking forward, and striving towards our goals. We are focused on the small steps throughout each day: head down, working hard, placing one foot in front of the other. But every once in a while, it is necessary to pause, lift our head up, and look back at how far we have come. So, what have we been up to in 2021? We are always listening to user feedback and continuously seeking to improve our platform.

Part I: A Journey Into the World of Advanced Security Monitoring

Dealing with hundreds of security alerts on a daily basis is a challenge. Especially when many are false positives that waste our time and all take up too much of our valuable time to sift through. Let me tell you how our security team fixed this, as we built security around the JFrog products. First, let me tell you a little bit about our team.

Log4j Vulnerability Alert: 100s of Exposed Packages Uncovered in Maven Central

The high risk associated with newly discovered vulnerabilities in the highly popular Apache Log4j library – CVE-2021-44228 (also known as Log4Shell) and CVE-2021-45046 – has led to a security frenzy of unusual scale and urgency. Developers and security teams are pressed to investigate the impact of Log4j vulnerabilities on their software, revealing multiple technical challenges in the process.

Chaos & Order: Breaking and Fixing Things in K8s Environments With Komodor & Gremlin

You can’t build a CI/CD pipeline and support fast-paced development cycles without considering continuous reliability. On the one hand, this means being rehearsed and prepared for every scenario. On the other, this calls for a contingency plan for when (inevitably) something will go wrong. Join this live event and see how DevOps tools can help you plan for the best and prepare for the worst, as Julie from Gremlin injects chaos into the Bank of Anthos’ system and Rona from Komodor troubleshoots things back into order.

21 Financial KPIs Every SaaS Company Should Be Monitoring

Since the first software-as-a-service (SaaS) company entered the market in 1999, Salesforce, the industry has exploded. Experts are predicting that the industry will exceed $600 billion by 2023 at an 18% compound annual growth rate. In order to play in this highly competitive space, SaaS companies need to have a deep understanding of their financial key performance indicators (KPIs).

How to achieve CIS Compliance with Puppet

Security compliance is the new black. Everyone is talking about it. Everyone is writing about it. Hopefully everyone is doing something about it, but it's a big lift for organizations. Compliance can mean adhering to departmental and company standards; it can mean well-defined regulatory standards like HIPAA, GDPR, and others. Compliance can mean adopting a standardized set of recommended protocols for cyber security. If compliance isn't on your radar right now, it should be.