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Leon Adato takes a lighthearted and personal look back at 2024, reflecting on the standout moments and trends that caught his eye throughout the year. In his signature off-the-cuff style, Leon shares his unique perspective on the past year’s highlights.

Azure VNet flow logs significantly improve network observability in Azure. Compared to NSG flow logs, VNet flow logs provide broader traffic visibility, enhanced encryption status monitoring, and simplified logging at the virtual network level enabling advanced traffic analysis and a more comprehensive solution for modern cloud network management.

One of the most critical gaps in traditional Large Language Models (LLMs) is that they rely on static knowledge already contained within them. Basically, they might be very good at understanding and responding to prompts, but they often fall short in providing current or highly specific information.

I attended Amazon Web Services re:Invent conference. This is AWS's annual user conference, which takes over most of Las Vegas for a week. There’s a lot to do and take in—customer stories galore, new tech, learning different use cases, and all the walking. But you’re here to hear what I learned, so I’ve broken it down into sections. Enjoy!

The NIS2 Directive is the European Union’s enhanced framework for cybersecurity, targeting essential and important entities. It fosters a proactive approach to managing risks, safeguarding critical infrastructure, and ensuring organizational resilience against cyber threats. The NIS2 Directive introduces new requirements and obligations in four overarching areas.

There are around 2.2 billion active Apple devices worldwide, representing 48% of the entire smartphone market. Today, the modern workforce is no longer dominated by a single operating system but spans multiple OSs, each requiring its own management and monitoring strategies. That’s where this article can help. We’ve listed the 10 best Apple MDM software based on genuine user reviews from G2 and Capterra.

Do you enjoy escaping quotes inside strings? I sure don’t, and I really appreciate the flexibility CFEngine provides with 3 different quoting characters (", ', ` ). Let’s take a look. This came up in the post show discussion for The agent is in, episode 39.

Password protection is the first line of defense to maintain the security of your network and its shared resources. With password-protected sharing, you control who can access your files, printers, and other devices within your network. This approach ensures that only authorized users with valid credentials can connect to your shared content, adding a layer of defense against unauthorized access.

Pinecone is a vector database that helps users build and deploy generative AI applications at scale. Whether using its serverless architecture or a hosted model, Pinecone allows users to store, search, and retrieve the most meaningful information from their company data with each query, sending only the necessary context to Large Language Models (LLMs). By providing the ability to search and retrieve contextual data, Pinecone enables you to reduce LLM hallucinations and enhance data security.

Etcd plays a critical role in your Kubernetes setup: it stores the ever-changing state of your cluster and its objects, and the API server uses this data to manage cluster resources. As your applications thrive and your Kubernetes clusters see more traffic, etcd handles an increasing amount of data. But etcd’s storage space is limited: the recommended maximum is 8 GiB, and a large and dynamic cluster can easily generate enough data to reach that limit.