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Scaling Argo CD Securely in 2022

Last updated 2/22/2022 Argo CD is used by some of the largest and most secure companies on earth with sensitive and very important workloads. In 2022, it’s all the more critical to make sure Argo CD is running securely within your organization. As Argo continues the process of CNCF graduation, additional security audits and improvements to project security are underway.

Why Reliability Engineering Matters: an Analysis of Amazon's Dec 2021 US-East-1 Region Outage

In the field of Chaos Theory, there’s a concept called the Synchronization of Chaos—disparate systems filled with randomness will influence the disorder in other systems when coupled together. From a theoretical perspective, these influences can be surprising. It’s difficult to understand exactly how a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to a devastating tornado. But we often see the influences of seemingly unconnected systems play out in real life.

Podcast: Break Things on Purpose | Carissa Morrow: Learning to be Resilient

Being new in tech an be intimidating! Thankfully, folks like Carissa Morrow are shining examples of how to come into tech from the ground up. Carissa began with a career shift and just started coding, went through the Boise Codeworks bootcamp, and made the jump to tech. Carissa talks about the resilience it took in her early days, and how those experiences reinforced her attitude on continually learning.

Malware Civil War - Malicious npm Packages Targeting Malware Authors

The JFrog Security research team continuously monitors popular open source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling to avert potential software supply chain security threats, and reports any vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community. Most recently we disclosed 25 malicious packages in the npm repository that were picked up by our automated scanning tools.

Why Kubernetes Is Worth Learning

Learning Kubernetes (K8s) can be intimidating. There are so many great tools to increase your use of K8s, it’s confusing to know where to begin. You learned how to walk by first learning to crawl. In the same way, to effectively integrate K8s into your software infrastructure, you need to build a foundation一a foundation of knowledge where you understand the capability of K8s and how it can improve your organization’s operations.

Logic App Schema Validation: DateTime Restrictions

I recently published a post regarding BizTalk Schema Validation: DateTime Restrictions on my personal blog. Still, I was curious to see if we have the same capability in Logic Apps Standard and Consumption. And by doing that, see how compatible these two technologies are regarding XML Schemas and validations.

Solving Shared Cost Allocation With Telemetry-Driven Cost Organization

If you’ve ever been in charge of your company’s cloud cost, you likely understand how painful it can be to accurately allocate shared cloud spend. In fact, in the 2021 State of FinOps report, “dealing with shared costs” was the second most common challenge faced by FinOps. Today, I’m excited to share that we’ve taken a huge step toward alleviating that pain.

Episode 3: Mooving to... Stability: The Role of Catastrophic Failure in Software Design

In this episode of Mooving to… Stability: The Role of Catastrophic Failure in Software Design, we had the opportunity to chat with Jeff Atwood, yes that Jeff Atwood of, Coding Horror, Stack Overflow, and Discourse (Chief Happiness Officer). Jeff started writing 911 software in Boulder, Colorado for a small company, which was a crash-course in writing code for software that has real consequences. With this unique and deep perspective, B.J.

Your guide to the key steps of capacity planning and management

If you’re going to move assets to Azure – or any public cloud, you’re going to need some help. As a cloud consulting firm with a top-notch infrastructure performance monitoring application, we help enterprises navigate obstacles on the path to the cloud all the time. We’ve also felt the pain of sizing and pricing in our cloud journey, too. That’s why we created Galileo Cloud Compass (or GCC as we sometimes call it).

6 Simple Steps to an Easy Cloud Migration

If you’re going to move assets to Azure – or any public cloud, you’re going to need some help. As a cloud consulting firm with a top-notch infrastructure performance monitoring application, we help enterprises navigate obstacles on the path to the cloud all the time. We’ve also felt the pain of sizing and pricing in our cloud journey, too. That’s why we created Galileo Cloud Compass (or GCC as we sometimes call it).