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Exception Perceptions: Gremlin + Chaos Engineering

On this episode of Exception Perceptions, Tammy Butow, Principal SRE at Gremlin and creator of the popular O’Reilly Chaos Engineering Bootcamp, helps us organize our thoughts on Chaos Engineering. Watch the episode, and read more of Tammy’s suggested practical ways to perform Chaos Engineering. Then go and get all of her Chaos Engineering resources.

Stackdriver Trace - Stack Doctor

Welcome to another episode of Stack Doctor. In the last episode, we worked with Stackdriver to set up SLI monitoring for application latency. In this episode, Customer Engineer Specialist, Yuri Grinshteyn, demonstrates what happens to applications with latency issues and how to diagnose and restore your service back to health!

Node.js vs Python for a Beginner's Web App

Learning to build webapps is an exciting process, but it comes with its own set of challenges. As a newer developer, deciding what programming language will bring your big idea to life is a common challenge. There are lots of terrific choices for building webapps on the market. Today, we’ll focus on two of 2019’s most popular options: Node.js vs Python.

For the Users: Customer-Driven Development

“Always design with the customer in mind,” they say. “We listen to our customers,” they say. And they’re right. But why not actually ask the customers what they want and just build what they’re asking for? “We might be driven off-track if we implement what our customers want.” This may come up as an argument to stick to the vision path and never deviate from the roadmap. However, in the end, aren’t we trying to build something for the customers?

New integration offers a consolidated look at your APM alerts

Application monitoring and alerting go hand-in-hand. Alerts point out critical issues in your infrastructure and help you identify and remediate components causing service degradation and disruption. To reduce the complexity involved in managing IT alerts, we’ve developed an integration between our application monitoring tool, Applications Manager, and our alert management solution, AlarmsOne.

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EventSentry v4.0 - Introducing ADMonitor

Since Active Directory is the foundation of all Windows networks, monitoring Active Directory needs to be part of any comprehensive security strategy. Up to version 3.5, EventSentry utilized Windows auditing and the security event log to provide reports on: User Account Changes, Group Changes and Computer Account Changes.

Zero Trust Security: Supporting a CARTA approach with Continuous Monitoring

Learn how to support a continuous adaptive risk and trust assessment (CARTA) approach leveraging accurate Kubernetes flow logs. 5-tuple logging is commonly used to monitor and detect anomalies and produces unreliable data that cannot accurately identify anomalies nor prove enforcement of security policies.