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Configuration files can take some time to set up, but after that initial push they are easy to forget about. “If it’s not broken, don’t fix it” is a common approach that many developers take with their configuration files. But when it comes to your continuous integration pipelines, small changes can have huge benefits.

One of my favorite features in Serverless360 is the monitoring calendar. It is something we added in 2022. The feature aims to help give you a view over time about when your business application has experienced problems that would have triggered warnings or errors based on the monitoring you have configured.

ICYMI, the recent release of Sensu 6.7.0 introduced the Sensu Integration Catalog – an open marketplace for Sensu Go. Along with the release, we also hosted a webinar highlighting how the Sensu Integration Catalog unlocks self-service infrastructure monitoring. In the webinar, we talked about the “what and why?” – what problems does the Catalog solve, and why we decided to solve them with a marketplace.

Way back in the early days of the Internet, having an antivirus was the end-all-be-all of cybersecurity. These were admittedly wilder times but in a way, only a few bad actors had the tools and knowledge to threaten and breach corporate IT infrastructures. Times have changed and thanks to the dissemination of information and widespread accessibility to more hacking technology, cyber-attacks have become a very real and tangible menace with potentially devastating consequences.

For a long time, businesses have been using enterprise OEM software licensing to sell their products faster as well as to enhance the features and functionalities of their solutions. These solutions empower companies to provide more value to their customers without bringing in significant investments. And they present a huge portion of the global software market. In the age of the digital workplace, it's advantageous to have a full understanding of how these software agreements work.

We are happy to announce our latest StackPod episode featuring guest Andreas Prins! With over five years of experience in different product management and product strategy roles, Andreas is currently the VP of product here at StackState.

Cloud infrastructure has been on the rise for the last decade. As it's adoption grows, so has the complexity of managing infrastructure, becoming more complex and more prone to user mistakes. This led to a new wave of tools in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space that aim to tackle this issue by treating your infrastructure as you would any other piece of software.

Looking to keep an eye on logs and metrics from AWS or CloudWatch? There are several reasons you might want to build a CloudWatch dashboard somewhere outside of the CloudWatch console: Whatever the reason, we’ve put together a write-up to help you plug into CloudWatch to surface any logs or metrics in one place, for easy alerting and sharing, using the SquaredUp observability portal. You can get your own SquaredUp account, just head over to squaredup.io/get-started to sign-up for a free account.

Moving workloads to the cloud has many benefits, and one that is often overlooked is the opportunity to modernize your network. In a traditional “perimeter-based” architecture, users and devices are authenticated and authorized on a device-by-device basis when connecting remotely via VPN.