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Segment vs Rudderstack vs alternatives in 2021 - Go Data Warehouse-first?

For marketing and product teams in 2021, using a customer data platform (or CDP) to pipe and clean data from their websites and web apps to various other services have become a widely used industry standard. More specifically, Segment's adoption has skyrocketed in startups and later stage companies and I predict their growth to continue across enterprises with their acquisition into Twilio.

Bad guys are watching for new openings in your cloud, are you?

You see the headlines, and perhaps, ‘thank goodness it wasn’t us’ flickers through your mind. An overly permissive web server exposes 100 million+ consumer credit applications, or an S3 bucket leaves hundreds of millions of user records open to the public. A nightmare scenario for any CISO and their cloud security team!

Run the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller Outside of Your Kubernetes Cluster

Run your HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller in External mode to reduce network hops and latency. Traditionally, you would run the HAProxy Kubernetes Ingress Controller as a pod inside your Kubernetes cluster. As a pod, it has access to other pods because they share the same pod-level network. That allows it to route and load balance traffic to applications running inside pods, but the challenge is how to connect traffic from outside the cluster to the ingress controller in the first place.