Addressing compliance requirements for monitoring and logging can be a challenge for any organization no matter how experienced or skilled the people responsible are. Compliance requirements are often not well understood by technical teams and there is not much instruction on how to comply with a compliance program. In this article, we’ll discuss what some of these new compliance programs mean, why they are important, and how you can comply with your logging and monitoring system.

Amazon Elastic Beanstalk allows you to quickly provision the infrastructure needed for an entire application without the hassle of managing the configuration of EC2 instances, Elastic Load Balancers, Auto Scaling, and many other AWS services. Elastic Beanstalk also automatically monitors these resources and provides a simplified view into your application’s health.

In A Comedy of Errors, we talk to engineers about the weirdest, worst, and most interesting application and infrastructure issues they’ve encountered (and resolved) over the years. This week, we hear about Py from Derek Lo, Founder and CEO, and Brian Sweatt, Lead Full-Stack Engineer. Py empowers hiring teams with a suite of products to evaluate technical candidates.

Kubelet TLS Bootstrap, an exciting and highly-anticipated feature in Kubernetes 1.12, is graduating to general availability. As you know, the Kubernetes orchestration system provides such key benefits as service discovery, load balancing, rolling restarts, and the ability to maintain container counts by replacing failed containers. And by using Kubernetes-compliant extensions, you can seamlessly enhance system functionality.

Honeycomb strives to be a fast, efficient tool; our storage back-end satisfies the median customer query in 250ms (and the P90 in 1.3 seconds). Still, every system has its limits, and customers with large datasets know that querying over a long time range, grouping by high-cardinality columns, building complex derived columns, and throwing a quantile or heat map into the mix can lead to some pretty slow queries. If this sounds familiar: good news!