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Modern applications rely on microservices, making it tough to track issues across services. Distributed tracing helps by mapping a request’s journey and pinpointing latency, failures, and dependencies. Unlike traditional monitoring, tracing connects the dots between services, offering deeper visibility. But implementing it isn’t easy—it brings high data volumes, performance overhead, and complexity.

As organizations expand their AWS footprint, maintaining visibility and control over configurations can be challenging. Misconfigurations, unnoticed vulnerabilities, and compliance gaps can create serious security risks. AWS Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) helps teams navigate these challenges by automating security checks, ensuring compliance, and providing continuous monitoring. Here’s what you need to know about AWS CSPM and why it’s essential for securing your cloud environment.

Efficient resource utilization is key to running Kubernetes workloads smoothly. Whether you're troubleshooting performance issues, optimizing resource requests and limits, or keeping an eye on cluster health, the kubectl top command is an essential tool. It provides real-time CPU and memory usage metrics for nodes and pods, helping you make informed decisions about scaling and resource allocation.

In 2022, we wrote about our engineering interview process to make it more transparent and accessible to candidates. A lot has changed since then: we've grown to 80 people across London, San Francisco, and New York, and naturally, our interview process has evolved too. We thought it was time for an update!

Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) is a software development methodology in which applications are built to match the behaviors a user would expect from the software. An evolution of Test-Driven Development (TDD), BDD gathers user stories about how users expect applications to behave, then creates software tests to validate that their applications match this behavior. The BDD methodology utilizes specific language and naming conventions.

Critical infrastructure — including systems vital to energy, water, transportation, communication, healthcare, finance, the military, and more — is the backbone of any nation’s public health, safety, security, and economic stability. As a result of their necessity, these systems are prime targets for sophisticated state-sponsored threat actors, organized cybercrime groups, and even hacktivists interested in drawing the most attention to their cause.