Our sources state that there has been a 20% increase in web-skimming attacks since the outbreak of the COVID-19 virus. Recently, we have witnessed some high-profile Magecart attacks including Boom! Mobile, Wisepay, PlayBack Now, and the most recent JM Bullion data breach.
Grafana is probably the most popular visualization software and a Hosted Grafana is provided by MetricFire. Every day, our users have to perform certain actions and most of them are repetitive. For example, you might want to automatically create a bunch of different folders with dashboards in them. This tutorial will show you how to do that with Terraform, which is very popular in the DevOps circles, and how to go even further by using the client library yourself to automate more.
A company’s data warehouse is usually the largest database a company uses when dealing with SCOM data, this means it is often the most expensive to manage and maintain. They can also be a drain on your infrastructure, taking a long time to backup, slowing down reporting, consuming more hardware space and can be very time consuming to recover, if they go down.
Our annual DevOps Pulse identifies and tracks points of interest and emerging trends throughout the tech industry. The 2020 DevOps Pulse was our biggest ever with over 1,000 respondents. This year, we put an emphasis on cloud-native technology adoption and adaptation to architecture, applications, and observability technologies. However, we would be remiss not to trail and track how DevOps pros and their teammates are dealing with the other major events of the year.
Get started with Gremlin's Chaos Engineering tools to safely, securely, and simply inject failure into your systems to find weaknesses before they cause customer-facing issues. Gremlin’s Chaos Conf is always an exciting event, bringing together leaders at the forefront of Chaos Engineering practices. This year was no exception, moving beyond defining Chaos Engineering to more advanced adoption and best practices discussions.
HAProxy 2.3 adds exciting features such as forwarding, prioritizing,and translating of messages sent over the Syslog Protocol on both UDP and TCP, Stats Contexts, SSL/TLS enhancements, an improved cache, and changes in the connection layer that lay the foundation for support for HTTP/3 / QUIC. This release was truly a community effort and could not have been made possible without all of the hard work from everyone involved in active discussions on the mailing list and the HAProxy project GitHub.
Even the most prominent and reliable frameworks are notorious for burning out resources if not configured perfectly. In this post, we are about to take a look at how Ruby, one of the most prominent programming languages and an awesome web application alternative when combined with Rails, manages memory, and how you can make it perform even better. Ruby is a scripting language built for use in web applications and similar stuff.
The idea behind Incident Management is to be ready. Not ready for anything, as that can be an unrealistic expectation, but ready to respond when the unexpected inevitably happens. DevOps teams often create incident playbooks in order to ensure they are as ready as possible to handle situations as they arise. Luckily, there is some amazing documentation on how to do just that from our friends at PagerDuty.
