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Aggregate Data with Elasticsearch Data Frames

Ingesting various events and documents into Elasticsearch is great for detailed analysis but when it comes to the common need to analyze data from a higher level, we need to aggregate the individual event data for more interesting insights. This is where Elasticsearch Data Frames come in. Aggregation queries do a lot of this heavy lifting, but sometimes we need to prebake the aggregations for better performance and more options for analysis and machine learning.

Integrating Ansible and Docker for a CI/CD Pipeline Using Jenkins

In this guide, we will use Ansible as a Deployment tool in a Continuous Integration/Continuous Deployment process using Jenkins Job. In the world of CI/CD process, Jenkins is a popular tool for provisioning development/production environments as well as application deployment through pipeline flow. Still, sometimes, it gets overwhelming to maintain the application's status, and script reusability becomes harder as the project grows.

CVE-2020-15598: HAProxy Enterprise Unaffected Due to ModSecurity Hardening Measures!

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team has reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in ModSecurity version 3.x that allows an attacker to send a crafted payload that exploits a flaw in how regular expressions are matched within the software. A CVE (CVE-2020-15598) was assigned to this vulnerability and it has been rated with a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (high).

Experience Everywhere: IWC and Engage

IWC is a Swiss luxury watchmaker that has been creating masterpieces since 1868. Of course, in recent months, and like so many businesses, IWC has had to adapt to the demands of a much more flexible and dispersed workforce. In this environment, IT’s capacity to communicate directly with employees is more important than ever. Fortunately, IWC was already using Nexthink Engage to reach out to its user base. Here, Ramon Hartmann explains how Engage makes a difference at the company, and why it’s superior to all standard modes of internal communication.

EventSentry's tray application "EventSentray"

Tray app that features a system information dialog that shows uptime, hostname, ip address, CPU/Memory/Disk utilization, logged on users, top 3 processes based on current CPU and memory consumption and more. End users can also submit support tickets directly from their desktop, and EventSentry admins can document system activity with notes.

Automating incident response with Relay and PagerDuty

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in resolving incidents. The latest integration between Relay and PagerDuty eliminates the “digital duct tape” by creating reusable, event-driven workflows to close the loop on incidents faster through Relay’s event-based automation approach.

DevOps Automation Best Practices for Automotive Software Delivery

Some cars today boast more than 300M lines of code! Software has become a key differentiator and influencer on consumers’ buying decisions - with many choosing vehicles as much for their infotainment system and “all that tech” as for the horsepower. DevOps for software embedded in vehicles is not trivial. The automotive industry faces unique challenges when it comes to delivering software -- due to complex testing matrix and deployment processes, and its strict safety, regulation and compliance rules.

How to Reduce MTTR with PagerDuty and Relay

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in resolving incidents. With the proliferation of cloud services and the increasing complexity of DevOps toolchains, engineers today need to not only learn how to use these services but also troubleshoot them when an incident is raised at 2 AM. Incident response is still manual today – cobbling together runbooks and ad hoc scripts and orchestrating people to respond.

5 Reasons Why Demand For Colocation Space Is Growing Across Asia Pacific

Demand for colocation space is continuing to accelerate across the Asia Pacific region. According to research by Global Data, data centre and hosting services revenue is estimated to reach around $32 billion by 2023, giving the region an almost 30% share of the overall global data centre market. Let’s take a closer look at what’s driving that growth…