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August 2018

Security Best Practices: Lessons Learned at a High-Growth Startup

Over the past few years, cybersecurity has become an integral part of operating an organization. Yet there are still plenty of small businesses that know very little about security or where to start. Most think they can get away without paying too much attention to security since they’re not a big target and they don’t have much that is worth stealing.

Logz.io Releases Alice The First Observability Bot to accelerate Chat-Ops and Data Insight On-the-Go

Boston and Tel Aviv — August 22, 2018 — Logz.io, the leader in AI-powered log analysis, releases Alice, a new Slack-based ChatOps solution that empowers DevOps teams to easily accelerate collaboration and data exploration in a manner that is flexible and accessible on-the-go. The tool enables DevOps teams to implement a ChatOps approach to logging and monitoring directly within Slack and remain connected regardless of their location.

Serverless vs. Containers

We live in exciting and worrying times. In serverless and containers, we have two amazing technologies that provide productive, machine-agnostic abstractions for engineers to work with. And yet, there seems to be an unbridgeable chasm between the two camps. If you have read anything I wrote in the last two years, you know that I am firmly in the serverless camp. But I was also an early adopter of containers.

Top 7 DevSecOps Tools

CNN recently estimated that in the first six months of 2018, the cryptocurrency market lost approximately $731 million to hackers and theft. One of the most famous software breaches—which caused major panic in the market—involved Cointhumb, a cryptocurrency exchange with more than 1 million users. In this breach, hackers stole around $32 million from customers’ wallets.

Diving Deeper into the Rabbit Hole with Alice - Logz.io's Slack Bot

The adoption of ChatOps — i.e. connecting an organization’s software delivery cycle and day to day operations to chat channels — has grown over the past few years. Facilitating cross-team communication and collaboration, Slack has become the most popular tool for implementing ChatOps-driven work practices.

Diving Deeper into the Rabbit Hole with Alice — Logz.io’s Slack Bot

The adoption of ChatOps — i.e. connecting an organization’s software delivery cycle and day to day operations to chat channels — has grown over the past few years. Facilitating cross-team communication and collaboration, Slack has become the most popular tool for implementing ChatOps-driven work practices.

Monitoring Server Performance

This is the first in a series on server monitoring. The primary focus of these posts is monitoring in a *nix environment. Monitoring servers is important. Whether it be finding an issue in a test environment prior to deploying or debugging an issue in production, we need access to information on our server to be able to tease apart what went wrong.