The world is changing. The way we do business, the way we communicate, and the way we secure the entPuppet is a software configuration management and deployment tool that is available both as an open source tool and commercial software. It’s most commonly used on Linux and Windows to pull the strings on multiple application servers at once. It includes its own declarative language to describe system configurations.

All Things Open, a conference focused on open source technologies, was held in Raleigh, NC this week and was bursting at the seams with over 4,500 attendees. Grafana Labs’ own Tom Wilkie gave his RED Method: How to instrument your services talk to a standing-room only crowd. We were excited to speak at and sponsor ATO and look forward to next year.

The world is changing. The way we do business, the way we communicate, and the way we secure the enterprise are all vastly different today than they were 20 years ago. This natural evolution of technology innovation is powered by the cloud, which has not only freed teams from on-premises security infrastructure, but has also provided them with the resources and agility needed to automate mundane tasks.

Full-text searches are a marvel of modern computing. In less than a second, search engines can match a query against hundreds of millions of documents. In the early days of search engines, you often had to use specific search operators and terms to get accurate results.

Facing the growing threat of cybercrime, and to answer compliance requirements, more and more organizations are looking at their DevOps and Operations teams to implement security. The term “security”, however, often triggers negative feelings among engineers. The reason for this is that security is associated with siloed, sequential and complicated processes — all roadblocks to fast development and deployment.