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5 Best Security Practices for Tomcat Servers

Tomcat servers are widely used application servers for today’s development architectures, popular for hosting Java based applications. Below is a guide on best security practices for security your Tomcat Server environment. Banner grabbing is the process of gaining information from computer systems including services, open ports, version, etc. When sending a server host request via telnet command, you pass along the server name, port, and version.

Panguin Tool - Ace at Search Engine Optimization

Panguin SEO Tool is one of the best free Search Engine Optimization tools available in the market. It shows you the impacts and effects of all Google algorithm updates on your website. To earn more views by Search Engine Optimization, it is very important to learn what has affected your website in the past and caused you fewer views. Panguin directly shows what could’ve caused it so it can be easily resolved.

How to avoid one of the biggest critical incident headaches (no aspirin required)

You probably know this situation all too (painfully) well . . . A critical incident has hit. You get the alert and the race is on! First headache up on deck – coordinating all the stakeholders. You call, you email, you text – some people are available, some are not. Some might be sleeping, or just getting up in a completely different time zone.

Switching to the Cloud: Any Change Is Going to Be Challenging, Even If It's for the Better

At Skeddly we’re focused on bringing you the best in AWS help tutorials, AWS scheduler services, and AWS backup services. However, from time to time we like to reach out to other leaders in the AWS space to help you, our blog readers, stay on top of the latest developments and news within the AWS ecosystem. Today Skeddly had the opportunity to speak with a few of the bright minds behind Keyhole Software, a cutting edge technology company with an impressive amount of AWS experience.

Who's Better at Downtime Communication: IT or Marketing?

In her CIO online post, “6 Blunders to Avoid When Dealing with End Users,” Mary Brandel discusses some of the mistakes IT professionals make when interacting with end users. In short, the article calls attention to some common limitations within IT staff when communicating with customers. This isn’t a matter of intelligence or willingness.

Increase Visibility with Configuration Monitoring

Network devices underpin every modern infrastructure environment with the switches and routers of your environment representing the roads information needs to travel on to reach its intended destination. And if switches and routers are the roads, picture configuration files as the traffic lights, they direct, protect and support the flow of information.

Using a Status Page in your Incident response process

A status page is a communication tool that allows you to display the current working status of your various services - whether fully functional, partially degraded, severely affected, etc. The nomenclature of the service status can be defined by you. On the status page, you can also access & update the uptime and incident history data for all your internal facing or customer impacting components.

CLI vs GitKraken GUI Speed Test

The typical workday for a developer using Git involves a variety of different tasks. Between generating new SSH keys, cloning Git repositories, viewing commit diffs, creating pull requests, and on and on. But do you ever sit back and think about how much time you’re spending on each of these seemingly smaller tasks? Trust us, it adds up. The concept for the GitKraken Git GUI was born from this very frustration.

Instrumenting Lambda with Traces: A Complete Example in Python

We’re big fans of AWS Lambda at Honeycomb. As you may have read, we recently made some major improvements to our storage engine by leveraging Lambda to process more data in less time. Making a change to a complex system like our storage engine is daunting, but can be made less so with good instrumentation and tracing. For this project, that meant getting instrumentation out of Lambda and into Honeycomb.