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Essential Metrics for Kafka Performance Monitoring

Apache Kafka is an open-source distributed streaming system that has grown in popularity and usage across the technology industry. Originating from LinkedIn and now part of the Apache Software Foundation, Kafka provides a robust and scalable platform. It’s uniquely designed with an architecture that includes both a storage layer and a compute layer.

International Inconsistencies: How Cybersecurity Preparedness Varies Across Countries

Part three of a four-part series covering Ivanti’s latest research. Get the full series: An organization’s culture and training programs have a significant influence on security preparedness, but our research shows both are inconsistent at the country-to-country level. As we’ve seen in the previous posts in this series, employee demographics and their willingness to report security risks are hidden threats to your cybersecurity posture.

Red Flag Reluctance: The Risk to Cybersecurity

Part two of a four-part series covering Ivanti’s latest research. Get the full series: Keeping an organization safe means getting near-real-time information about security incidents or breaches. But new research shows some employees are less inclined than others to report red flags, which puts your business at risk. Will your employees get in touch quickly if they have a security concern?

Which Gen Is Most Tech-Savvy? A Workforce Dilemma

Part one of a four-part series covering Ivanti’s latest research. Get the full series: According to new cybersecurity research by Ivanti, the employees who are the most tech-savvy aren’t necessarily the ones we’d presume, demographically speaking. Why is that? And what are the issues it creates for an enterprise?

Zenbleed vulnerability fix for Ubuntu

On 24 July 2023, security researchers from Google’s Information Security Engineering team disclosed a hardware vulnerability affecting AMD’s Zen 2 family of microprocessors. They dubbed this vulnerability “Zenbleed” (CVE-2023-20593), evoking memories of previous vulnerabilities like HeartBleed and hinting at its possible impact.

Configuring Python StatsD Client

Building and deploying highly scalable, distributed applications in the ever-changing landscape of software development is only half the journey. The other half is monitoring your application states and instances while recording accurate metrics. There are moments when you wish to check how many resources are being consumed, how many files are under access by the specialized process, etc. These metrics provide valuable insights into our tech stack execution and management.

What are Prometheus Functions?

Prometheus is a platform for real-time systems and event monitoring and alerting. The Prometheus project is free, open-source, and available on GitHub. Originally developed at SoundCloud, Prometheus became a project of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation in 2016, alongside other popular frameworks such as Kubernetes. The core of the project is the Prometheus server, which acts as the system’s “brain” by collecting various metrics and storing them in a time-series database.

The Best Cloud Infrastructure Automation Tools

The past decade has seen a drastic growth in the adoption of public cloud. One of the primary reasons for this is its cheaper infrastructure and ease of scale. With such rapid adoption of public cloud, the need for infrastructure automation also arises. This is because teams want to quickly provision infrastructure and automate tasks that previously took weeks in the case of traditional data centers, down to minutes in the public cloud.