The European Union (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) took effect May 25. Now, businesses that fail to comply with GDPR risk costly penalties – along with potential brand reputation damage and revenue losses.

As a long-time security professional, I’m always interested to hear about how companies like Datadog are keeping up with the changing security landscape. I can recall when the security organization was solely responsible for security, and we were focused on protecting the perimeter of our business. However, with the advent of the cloud, mobile, and web applications, that perimeter has disappeared.

With the proliferation of virtualization and high availability architecture, teams are chasing 99.999% uptime like knights of old hunted unicorns. Many site reliability engineers find more comfort in the Boy Scouts’ motto, “Always be prepared.” Your company’s Git server is mission critical to the daily operations of engineering and everyone they support. How do you create business continuity in the face of unpredictable circumstances?

“Why does the ‘docker logs’ command fail?“, is one of our frequently asked questions. The answer is simple and mentioned in the Docker documentation: “The docker logs command is not available for drivers other than json-file and journald.”

It’s no secret that Kubernetes is the leader when it comes to container orchestration platforms. Since its 2014 release, the open source project has taken the world by storm and become one of the biggest success stories in the open source community.

Picking the right tools to handle the deployment will depend on your environment. Since there are so many ways to deploy to Azure services, we won't be able to get into the weeds, but I will cover enough so that you can hopefully find the right deployment solution for you.

Amazon Elastic Container Service for Kubernetes (Amazon EKS) is a managed service that makes it easyfor you to run Kubernetes on AWS without needing to install and operate your own Kubernetes clusters.