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How to Test Salesforce Multi-Factor Authentication

Assuming you have correctly configured the user ids for MFA authentication in Salesforce, end-users should see the following screen when trying to login into the CRM application. The TOTP-based verification code is generated in third-party authenticator apps (Google or Microsoft) on your mobile device when you first scan the QR code or enter the key manually in the app. In this article, we’ll guide you through all the steps you need to set up our Salesforce MFA Web Sensor in your environment.

Full-Cycle Observability With Instana and Lightrun

Understanding everything that happens inside a production environment is a notoriously difficult task. Instana’s solution helps developers and DevOps become aware of problems quickly – problems that are rooted in both infrastructure-level information and application-level information. Lightrun, on the other hand, enables practitioners to drill deeper into line-by-line, debugger-grade information from your production systems – enriching the existing information Instana delivers.

Jaeger Tracing: A Friendly Guide for Beginners

Written by @thetomzach @ Aspecto. In this guide, you’ll learn what Jaeger tracing is, what distributed tracing is, and how to set it up in your system. We’ll go over Jaeger’s UI and touch on advanced concepts such as sampling and deploying in production. You’ll leave this guide knowing how to create spans with OpenTelemetry and send them to Jaeger tracing for visualization. All that, from scratch.

37 minutes to deploy a fullstack app on my new AWS account

Today, I was working on our Terraform Provider, and I noticed that I never tried to deploy an application from scratch on a new and clean AWS account. Meaning, an empty AWS account - with 0 resources created. No VPC, no EC2, no Load Balancer, nothing... just an IAM user to get access to my AWS account programmatically. This post explains what I did and how it took 37 minutes and 33 seconds to literally: 😅 Let's explain all of that!

Load test WordPress + nginx on Kubernetes

Why this combination you ask? Load testing is my passion, and I am partial to Kubernetes. I challenged myself to share a use case that many could relate to, focused on a business critical application. Websites came to mind and WordPress is the world’s most popular website management system. Of course, nginx is the most popular web server so let’s throw that into the mix. And Kubernetes? With more than 50% of corporations adopting Kubernetes in 2021, what better system to run in.

The Growing Importance of Cloud Technology in the Healthcare Industry

The healthcare industry is under pressure more than ever before to reduce costs, increase efficiency, and improve patient care. Cloud technology is proving to be a valuable tool in meeting all of these challenges. In this article, we'll explore the many ways in which it's helping to revolutionize the healthcare industry.
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Is Remote Working a Cybersecurity Risk?

The Covid-19 pandemic had a huge impact on employment. Perhaps one of the most important was the rise in remote working. Some workers chose to work remotely to protect themselves - others were asked to as a part of a plan from their company to help limit the spread of the virus among members of staff.

The Best AWS Elastic Beanstalk Alternatives for 2022

AWS Elastic Beanstalk is an AWS-managed service. It is used by startups, small & mid-sized businesses for web application development. As it comes pre-configured with EC2 server and is efficient at using automatic provisioning of services and resources, handling application code and environment configurations seems easier with this PaaS solution. AWS Elastic Beanstalk is a go-to option for various startups, small & mid-sized businesses.