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How Netflix Uses Fault Injection To Truly Understand Their Resilience

Distributed systems such as microservices have defined software engineering over the last decade. The majority of advancements have been in increasing resilience, flexibility, and rapidity of deployment at increasingly larger scales. For streaming giant Netflix, the migration to a complex cloud based microservices architecture would not have been possible without a revolutionary testing method known as fault injection. With tools like chaos monkey, Netflix employs a cutting edge testing toolkit.

What's the Most Powerful Tool in Your Security Arsenal?

Trying to work out the best security tool is a little like trying to choose a golf club three shots ahead – you don’t know what will help you get to the green until you’re in the rough. Traditionally, when people think about security tools, firewalls, IAM and permissions, encryption, and certificates come to mind. These tools all have one thing in common – they’re static.

Getting Started with Elastic Maps Server (Beta)

Elastic Maps Server gives you the ability to use Elastic Maps without needing to have a connection to Elastic Maps Service for the underlying basemaps and vector maps. This is ideal for air-gapped or low-connectivity environments that require locally managed assets. In this video, we walk through how to get started with Elastic Maps Server for your own self-managed Elastic Stack deployment.

How to Take Data Stored in InfluxDB Cloud 2 and Use It in a "Switch" Node within Node-Red

This video shows you how to take data that is stored in InfluxDB Cloud 2 and use it in a "Switch" node within Node-Red. In our example, we read the average house temperature and decide whether or not the heating should be switched on.

Intro To Flyway - Enabling Cross Database Migrations

In this video Solution Engineer Dave Ong will provide you with an insight into Flyway, Redgate’s cross database solution to help you manage database migrations and achieve your DevOps goals. We will look at how you can leverage both versioned and repeatable migrations with both manual and CI/CD deployments that can be unlocked with the power of Flyway.

Nuxeo: Developing resilient services and delivering outstanding customer experiences with Datadog

Joe Quinto and Stephen Bouzan, of Nuxeo, a content services platform, talk about how Datadog helps them stay one or two steps ahead of their customers in identifying and responding to issues–so their customers can focus on building smarter content applications and getting to market faster.

Network Monitoring and Its Best Practices

All networks, no matter how sophisticated, are vulnerable to attack from outsiders. They can also face compromise from poor program integration, outdated software, lagging connections, and insufficient bandwidth. These issues impede the efficiency of your workforce and can frustrate clients who depend on reaching you through reliable communication methods. A technologically advanced network needs constant attention to run at peak efficiency.

Network Performance Monitoring: The Tools and Strategies

In this post, we are going to look at different tools and strategies for Network Performance Monitoring. To follow along with this blog article, make sure to book a demo and sign up for MetricFire's free trial where a lot of our customers are doing network performance monitoring using Hosted Graphite and Prometheus service. These tools are part of MetricFire’s offering.