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User Story: The CloudSploit CloudFormation Scanning API

At CloudSploit, one of our biggest satisfactions is learning more about how our users actually use our product. While we can look at charts, graphs, and usage statistics, nothing beats an actual walkthrough by an enthusiastic user who has incorporated CloudSploit into his or her company’s architecture.

The Importance of Continual Auditing in the Cloud

The concept of “the cloud” is an amazingly powerful and novel solution for many providers and users. The idea of shifting from physical infrastructure to the digital space is an attractive one, especially when consideration is given to the impact of such a migration in terms of economy, ease of access, and ease of use. Due to this alluring nature, many organizations have rushed to adopt cloud-based solutions in recent years, and have garnered a large amount of success.

Email Notifications from Understand.io

Built specifically for Laravel, Understand.io is a very powerful tool used by hundreds of developers to stay on top of their application’s health. In addition to performing live search and analysis on your log data, you can also set up custom alerts. Alerts can be used to automatically send a variety of notifications via email, Slack or a webhook when something important takes place in your application.

Calling for Backup: Introducing Teams

We're excited to announce that Dead Man's Snitch is now easier to use with your entire team. Gone are the days of sharing a single login or using a shared mailing list for alerts. Now, everyone on your team can have their own login and personalized alert settings. Using Slack or PagerDuty and don't need emails? You can now opt out of email alerts as well.

The Crazy Simple Manifesto

Creatives and businesses depend on programmers to fulfil their visions. The problem? Programmers are scarce. There are 230,000 unfilled jobs for programmers in the U.S. alone, and more than 90 percent of the gap is outside Silicon Valley. And, when the vast majority of the world’s great software talent resides in the halls of tech juggernauts — like Google, Amazon and Facebook — giving them an embarrassment of riches, the rest of the world is left behind.

From DigitalOcean to Linode to Google Cloud Platform: the Evolution of healthchecks.io Hosting Setup

In this article I will look at the current hosting setup of healthchecks.io, how it has evolved during the past two years, and what challenges I faced running this small but lively service.

Perhaps your IP-address is already blacklisted but you don't even know...

Are you sure that your domain isn’t currently listed with some anti SPAM-database? We recommend you to check this out! As you can be one of those who accidentally fall into being blocked due to spreading spam, malware, viruses or just having dangerous, illegal or prohibited content (links to such content) hosted on their pages.