Apache Ignite is a computing platform for storing and processing large datasets in memory. Ignite can leverage hardware RAM as both a caching and storage layer to serve as a distributed, in-memory database or data grid. This allows Ignite to ingest and process complex datasets—such as those from real-time machine learning and analytics systems—in parallel and at faster speeds than traditional databases supported by only disk storage.

As healthcare and life sciences organizations move to digitize their operations and automate their workflows, they are encountering new challenges related to HIPAA regulations, which dictate how patient information should be collected and stored.

SRE is a practice adopted by best-in-class companies all over the world. As a software reliability platform purpose-built for SREs, Blameless strives to practice what we preach and utilizes SRE best practices daily to cultivate a culture of resilience. However, this wasn’t always the case.

July 06, 2020 The development of container-based microservice architectures is being accelerated in the cloud, as leading cloud service platforms are delivering targeted solutions for these workloads. One such solution is Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS), which offers the most popular container orchestration platform–Kubernetes–in a managed-service model.

The Splunk Security Research Team has been working on Kubernetes security analytic stories mainly focused on AWS and GCP cloud platforms. The turn has come now for some Azure Kubernetes security monitoring analytic stories. As outlined in my "Approaching Kubernetes Security — Detecting Kubernetes Scan with Splunk" blog post, when looking at Kubernetes security, there are certain items within a cluster that must be monitored.

REST vs SOAP are both means of accessing web services. Many different companies use them for a variety of purposes and operations. Despite this, there is considerable confusion between the two and their distinct functions. How can you know when to use REST vs. SOAP? At least 83% of APIs use REST, while another 15% use SOAP. Although REST is by far the most common, SOAP is still a viable option due to certain advantages and possibilities it offers.