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Log4j Log4Shell Vulnerability: All You Need To Know

On December 9, 2021, a researcher from the Alibaba Cloud Security Team dropped a zero-day remote code execution exploit on Twitter, targeting the extremely popular log4j logging framework for Java. Since then, the trivially exploitable (weaponized PoCs are available publicly) and extremely popular library has reportedly been massively exploited and has gotten wide coverage on media and social networks.

What does a DevOps Engineer do? We analyzed 29 job postings to find out.

Introduction As all companies become software driven, DevOps is becoming an important practice in enterprises and startups across the world. DevOps is about bringing velocity to delivering tech products and services, so you can delight customers and meet business goals. To achieve this velocity, development (dev) and operations (ops) teams work closely together across the software lifecycle - from planning to release. And this has led to a new role in engineering teams - DevOps Engineer.

Gartner Hype Cycle 2021: The Status of I&O Automation

In today’s lightning fast digital age, I&O leaders across the globe are finding themselves under increasing pressure to find new and innovative ways for improving efficiency, optimizing costs and delivering fast, quantifiable and sustainable value. In order to achieve these goals, these leaders must not only be willing to adopt cutting-edge technologies, but be strategic about what tools in particular they choose to pursue and how they should prioritize them in terms of potential ROI.

Metric Correlations using unlimited data for monitoring and observability

Correlate your monitoring metrics to make even better decisions about how to handle incidents in your infrastructure using our Metric Correlations. You can now select an unlimited amount of time to troubleshoot all of your monitoring metrics. Netdata’s free, open-source monitoring agent works with Netdata Cloud to help you monitor and troubleshoot every layer of your systems to find weaknesses before they turn into outages.

Kroger Uses JFrog Xray for Software Security and License Compliance

Kroger leverages the JFrog platform to give developers visibility into their software vulnerabilities and make informed decisions on what to fix. See how Kroger has implemented secure DevOps processes with automated vulnerability scanning and open-source software (OSS) license compliance capabilities to support their development and security teams.

Mooving To SaaS from OnPrem

Learn from Dave Mangot, author, speaker, and consultant, about moving to SaaS from On-Prem in the premiere episode of “Mooving To…” This new series with Thom Duran, Director of SRE at Moogsoft talks about the latest tools, tips, and real-world experiences from top engineers and developers. Moving to SaaS definitely has its advantages, and it’s something Dave has been through several times.

Is Arm the future of cloud computing?

The Arm architecture dates back to Acorn Computers’ BBC Micro in 1981. The BBC Micro was a conventional machine, yet it ran nearly twice as fast as its contemporaries, such as the Apple II. About the same time, research on a microprocessor design based on the Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) demonstrated that simple chip designs could easily outperform the current high-end 32-bit offerings.