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A Day in the Life: Intelligent Observability at Work with DevOps

Thursday morning, and I’ve done some yoga, a ten-minute meditation and am at my desk in my hastily thrown up garden office with a mug of green tea by 08:30am. I’m really not missing the commute to our old HQ (now permanently closed, thanks to the pandemic) in the heart of Seattle and am enjoying an extra few minutes in bed and getting mindful before logging in.

Can AI help redefine the future of finserv?

The last few years has been a time of major disruption in the Finserv sector. Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology has emerged as an important tool for providers of financial products and services to deliver more personalised and more sophisticated services to customers faster. The financial services sector is at the beginning of an exciting journey with AI – a journey that we believe will spark a revolution and redefine financial services.

How to keep your Linux disk usage nice and tidy and save space

Everyone loves a clean, tidy home (hopefully). This also includes your other home – slash home, the Linux home directory. Disk cleanup and management utilities are extremely popular in Windows, but not so much in Linux. This means that users who want to do a bit of housekeeping in their distro may not necessarily have a quick, convenient way to figure out how to get rid of the extra cruft they have accumulated over the years. Let us walk you through the processing of slimming down your home.

Security vs. Compliance: What's the difference?

The first two posts in our compliance blog series focused on managing compliance through automation. In this third post, we take a step back to explore a more foundational — but no less important — topic: What’s the difference between compliance and security? Is compliant infrastructure secure infrastructure? People often talk about compliance and security as though they’re one and the same.

Your Software Is Secure Until It's Not: An Informal And Unscripted Chat On DevSecOps

Join JFrog’s Kat Cosgrove, as she interviews Melissa Mckay, Developer Advocate, JFrog and Seth Vargo, Senior Staff Engineer at Google Cloud - for an interactive discussion about how to thrive with DevSecOps in a world of security threats and breaches. Listen in as they discuss the recent SolarWinds hack, which affected many high-profile Fortune 500 companies and large U.S. federal government agencies. They will also look at how you can overcome the stress, fear and paranoia of releasing something that you think could result in disaster, with some sound experience and knowledge.

Using Puppet to detect the SolarWinds Orion compromise

SolarWinds' widely-used Orion IT platform has been the subject of a supply-chain compromise by an unidentified threat actor. The attack was discovered in December 2020, but it appears to have begun in March 2020 when the attacker used trojan malware to open a backdoor on SolarWinds customers around the world.