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Building an asset attribution system for software security

Asset attribution is an operational necessity for robust digital protection, but hasn't always been easy to achieve. Especially when software state and ownership is unknown, or inconsistent. This blog delves into the historical complexities and challenges of asset attribution for security and engineering teams and explores how Internal Developer Portals like Cortex can help.

Cut Cloud Infrastructure Costs By 5x - Guide For Startups

Managing costs while scaling operations is a challenging balancing act. One significant cost center is cloud infrastructure and its maintenance. This article aims to provide CTOs, VPs, and Head of Engineering with insights on optimizing these expenses. It highlights the benefits of leveraging DevOps Automation Platforms like Qovery to cut up to 5x their Cloud infrastructure costs.

5 Best SOC 2 Compliance Solutions in 2024

SOC 2 compliance is crucial for any company handling sensitive customer data, but the process can be a headache. From managing your infrastructure to rigorous audits and ongoing monitoring, staying compliant demands a lot of time and effort. Thankfully, SOC 2 automation tools can make this process much smoother and faster. In this article, I’ll walk you through five top SOC 2 automation tools that can help you get and stay compliant with less stress.

Deciphering your bandwidth usage to ensure smooth network operations

In a world where businesses require uninterrupted network operations and people rely on applications for their day-to-day activities, understanding bandwidth utilization is critical. Rather than playing whack-a-mole with your bandwidth problems, you can monitor your network’s bandwidth usage and make informed decisions based on clear data. Bandwidth utilization metrics tell you how much data an interface, switch, or router can handle and how much data is currently passing through them.

Jaeger vs. Grafana Tempo: A Comprehensive Comparison for Distributed Tracing

When it comes to monitoring, diagnosing, and optimizing the performance of complex systems today, you can’t really go wrong with tracing tools. And while OpenTelemetry has become the go-to choice for instrumenting apps and collecting traces, there are several other options in the backend that can effectively store, manage, and analyze traces sent by OpenTelemetry. Two of these open-source tools are Jaeger and Grafana Tempo. In this article, we’ll compare and contrast the two.

Why Move from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise? Here are 10 Reasons

Considering moving from Open Source Puppet to Puppet Enterprise? Great! In this article, we'll cover typical use cases for the enterprise version of Puppet, why businesses that moved from Puppet's open source version to Puppet Enterprise made the switch, and how customers drive time to value with Puppet Enterprise faster than Open Source Puppet.