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Deploy Friday: E79 The Long and Winding Road towards security compliance

Platform.sh has worked hard to be the most secure, compliant, and dependable business partner possible for our customers. To that end, we're able to provide data processing agreements (DPAs) for European GDPR, German BDSG, Canadian PIPEDA, and the Australian Privacy Act. We have been successfully audited for SOC 3 Type 2 and PCI DSS Level 1 compliance, and we've got more important acronyms in the works.
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The HTTP/2 Landscape in 2021

When the internet first came into existence in 1983, its communication channels didn't exist, and it was just operational enough to be used for research purposes. In 1989, Tim Berners-Lee had the idea to develop a system for the internet using TCP/IP protocols. That public project at CERN introduced HTTP, HTML, World Wide Web (WWW), and a client-server as communication mechanisms. In this post, you'll learn how HTTP protocol works and how new versions brought it to where we are now, with the widely used HTTP/2 in 2021.

Making Artificial Intelligence Real

“We need to be an AI-enabled company.” Replace the “AI” with any technology from history and this comment becomes a common refrain across businesses lured by the promises of new technology and fueled by FOMO (a fear of missing out). As enterprise strategists and former CXOs who have lived through many “technology is the solution, now what was the problem?” conversations, we talk extensively about this issue.

Monitoring network security with Aruba Clearpass, Grafana and Graphite

In this article, we will explore why it is imperative to constantly monitor network security metrics, what Aruba Clearpass is, and how it helps us manage network security. Then we will look at what Graphite and Grafana are and how to analyze metrics with their help. Finally, we will learn how MetricFire can make it easier for us to work with Graphite and Grafana.

Dashboard Fridays: Sample JIRA Health dashboard

Join SquaredUp's Adam Kinniburgh and Tim Wheeler as they showcase this example Jira Health Status dashboard. Offering a quick view of the state of your next release, alongside the health of the Jira project as a whole, this dashboard uses SquaredUp’s Web API and PowerShell tiles to improve on Jira’s native dashboarding capabilities. Tune in to learn how it was made, the challenges it solves, and our top tips for building it yourself.

AWS CloudWatch Alarms - A Startup Guide

While more businesses are moving their apps to the cloud, they must also ensure that cloud-based services such as Amazon Web Services (AWS) and other resources remain available. So, how can you make sure these cloud services aren't turned off? You can accomplish this using a tool like Amazon CloudWatch, which monitors applications. What is AWS CloudWatch will be the subject of this article.

AMA Responses: Icinga Web and Modules

00:10 Why are there some issues and PRs that have not been looked at for some time?

01:34 Are there plans to increase the number of people working on the Director?

01:51 Why is there such a discrepancy between the HA functionality in Icinga 2 versus Icinga Web 2 and its modules? And will this improve in the future?

03:17 Will it be possible to tunnel module traffic with the Icinga traffic? Is something planned for managing for example x509 in a distributed setup?