Operations | Monitoring | ITSM | DevOps | Cloud

Don’t you hate it when you see an uncaughtException error pop up and crash your Node.js app? Yeah… I feel you. Can anything be worse? Oh yeah, sorry, unhandledRejection I didn’t see you there. What a nightmare you are. 😬 I maintain all Node.js open-source repos at Sematext. A few of them can help you out with error handling, but more about that further down. Here at Sematext, we take error handling seriously! I want to share a bit of that today.

Data streaming is important for getting insights in real time and reacting to events as fast as possible. Its application is wide, from banking transactions and website click analytics to IoT devices and motorsports. The last example represents a really interesting use case.

In the mid of December, SolarWinds disclosed that the company experienced a highly sophisticated, manual supply chain attack on versions of the Orion network monitoring product released in March – June 2020. The company shared that the attack was most likely conducted by foreign hackers and intended to be narrow, remarkably targeted, and manually executed attack.

Misconfigured resources are a big contributor to compromised cloud security. If you have misconfigured Amazon S3 buckets, for example, malicious actors could access your data, then inappropriately or illegally distribute this private information, putting your company’s security at risk. Policies and regular best practices enforcement are key to reducing this security risk.