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Secure containerised Ceph with Ubuntu container images

As we announced at Cephalocon 2023 in Amsterdam, Canonical has started to make container images for Ceph available. We received lots of questions at the booth about what it means to the average Ceph user who has or wants to deploy Ceph on Ubuntu. In this blog post, we will cover the benefits to users who are running containerised Ceph on Ubuntu, and specifically how these images can provide an improved security posture.

The Benefits of Using NFC for Asset Tracking in Government Agencies

As government agencies continue to grow and evolve, the need for effective asset tracking becomes increasingly important. Accurately tracking and managing assets can help agencies save time, reduce costs, and improve overall efficiency. One technology that is gaining popularity in the asset tracking space is Near Field Communication (NFC). In this blog, we will explore the benefits of using NFC for asset tracking in government agencies.

How APM solutions enhance JMeter load testing visibility - Bridging the gap!

As an SRE and DevOps evangelist, I talk to many customers and prospects, most of whom run load and stress testing as part of their application delivery chain, often using JMeter for load testing. Many of them have a misconception: “I have JMeter and I am all set from a performance/ scalability perspective. I don’t need any other tools”.

Coralogix vs. New Relic: Support, Pricing and More

More platform teams owning multi-tenant systems need a full-stack observability solution that aggregates volumes of data into logs, metrics and traces. In tandem, there’s a growing number of major players in the observability industry, including New Relic. This post will compare some key features between Coralogix vs. New Relic. We will also go over what customers are looking for when choosing a complete observability platform.

Tracealyzer 4.8 is coming in June

Tracealyzer version 4.8 will be released in the first week of June, with major optimizations and improvements for Zephyr RTOS, and support for 64-bit target processors (FreeRTOS, Zephyr and SafeRTOS only). In addition, the ESP32 support is upgraded to use the latest TraceRecorder library, supporting all recent versions of ESP-IDF up to v5.2 dev. Snapshot tracing is now primarily supported by the implementation for streaming mode, using the RingBuffer stream port.

How to manage CVE security vulnerabilities with Grafana, MergeStat, and OSV-Scanner

Patrick DeVivo is a software engineer and founder of MergeStat, an open source project that makes it possible to query the contents, history, and metadata of source code with SQL. The security posture of software supply chains has been a significant topic lately. Recent high-profile breaches have shown the importance of managing risks from third party code. Take, for example, the Log4Shell vulnerability (tracked as CVE-2021-44228 — Grafana Labs was not affected).

What to Consider for Monitoring Network Latency

In a perfect world, data would move over the Internet in real time. There would be no delays whatsoever between when one computer sends data out over the network and when it reaches the recipient. In the real world, however, there is always some level of delay when exchanging data over the network. That delay is measured in terms of network latency. Ideally, network latency is so low that no one notices it.

The Subtle Details of Livestreaming Prime Video with Embedded CDNs

Live sports have moved to the internet and are now streaming instead of being broadcast. Traditional streaming protocols have a built-in delay that challenges the experience of a live game. Amazon Prime has found a solution by combining a new protocol with a very distributed CDN.

Traceroute InSession: Catchpoint's effort towards a more reliable network diagnostic tool.

Since its inception in 1988, the traceroute has undergone several variations. You might be wondering, ‘Why so many?’ The answer is simple: achieving traceroute functionality has been a balance between security and utility. Whenever malicious actors exploited firewall and router vulnerabilities, their vendors responded with fixes and solutions which impacted the traceroute algorithms.

5 Immediate Business Benefits of Leveraging Domain-Agnostic AIOps

Legacy systems and point solutions are part of any business. And while they have their history and benefits, it’s critical to find a balance for your organization. IT teams have been acclimated to disparate event management and monitoring tools. Now, with massive and rapidly increasing data flow, this disconnect is slowing and paralyzing IT teams.