How to monitor Digital Ocean
We are going to show how to monitor DigitalOcean instances using the plugin developed for this purpose. With it we will obtain data from our accounts and droplets.
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Gremlin ALFI Demo - AWS RDS Unavailable - Chaos Engineering
In this demo, we'll share how you can use ALFI (Application Level Failure Injection) to make AWS RDS unavailable. This enables you to learn how your application handles different failure modes. We'll be using the ALFI Latency attack to perform this Chaos Engineering experiment.
DORA Metrics Explained
DORA metrics, also known as Accelerate metrics, are universally lauded as good metrics for tracking Engineering team productivity and software delivery performance. Learn the whats and whys of the four DORA metrics: Deployment Frequency, Change Lead Time, Change Failure Rate and Mean Time to Recovery, and how to use them the right way. LINKS SLEUTH A deploy-based Accelerate Metrics tracker both managers and developers love.
Scale your business faster while ensuring reliability with Sumo Logic and NGINX
See how NGINX paired with Sumo Logic can help you manage your application reliability and benchmark performance across NGINX deployments.
20 Best Software Development Tools in 2021
With the increase in popularity and adoption of software development across the industry, developers and organizations are constantly looking for tools to make their lives easier. The right set of tools can quickly help you get the maximum output each day, but the road to finding your arsenal of the best software development tools is not easy. That’s why we researched for you!
FinOps for Cloud & Container Infrastructure
Cloud financial management (FinOps) begins with bill analysis and cost allocation—capabilities that cloud providers like AWS, Azure, and GCP deliver natively. But, when it is time to truly optimize infrastructure costs, enterprises need to look deeper.
CVE-2021-31440: Kubernetes container escape using eBPF
In a recent post by ZDI, researchers found an out-of-bounds access flaw (CVE-2021-31440) in the Linux kernel’s (5.11.15) implementation of the eBPF code verifier: an incorrect register bounds calculation occurs while checking unsigned 32-bit instructions in an eBPF program. The flaw can be leveraged to escalate privileges and execute arbitrary code in the context of the kernel.
Getting Maximum Performance From Always On Availability Groups
Since Microsoft first introduced the Always On Availability Groups (AGs) feature in SQL Server 2012, there’s been a lot of interest in using AGs for both high availability and disaster recovery (HADR), as well as for offloading read-only workloads.
Can They Really See That Data? Auditing Access Controls Across Environments
"Who has access to sensitive financial data in our organization?" Assuming you have a definition of what "sensitive financial data" means for your organization, can you easily answer this question? If you needed to perform an audit to verify only the appropriate people have access, what actions would you take?
The Future Demands Full Stack DevOps Engineers at the Epicenter
As we wrap up swampUP 2021, I have never felt more excited about being part of the global DevOps community. My greatest takeaway from swampUP 2021, with all of its great presentations and the participation of thousands of our community peers, is that DevOps today finds itself at a historical inflection point. Let me explain.