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JFrog’s Security Research team recently disclosed an RCE (remote code execution) issue in Apache Cassandra, which has been assigned to CVE-2021-44521 (CVSS 8.4). This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra.

AWS resource tagging is fundamental for effective cloud cost management. By creating and allocating cost-related tags in AWS, you can organize and manage your resources according to keys and values that make sense to you. This helps you better understand your cloud costs and manage your spending. But proper tagging isn't easy. While AWS provides several useful resources, you may still run into some issues that require more involved solutions.

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth.

Kubernetes has experienced rapid growth over the years, with a recent post from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation reporting a userbase increase of about 67% in just the past year. Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that automates how containers are deployed, how they communicate, and how traffic is routed between them; it also scales configurations for both the containerized workloads and the underlying infrastructure that comprises the cluster.

Modern digital businesses adopt AIOps tools to enable continuous insights across an IT stack. These insights tell the full story of what’s happening behind systems, allowing IT teams to achieve the operational efficiencies and high availability that lead to customer satisfaction. Old siloed monitoring disciplines provide data specific to performance of the digital experience, IT infrastructure, application or network.

The world is still getting used to operating within the cloud. Moving to the cloud is challenging for many organizations. So why do we see a rise in the adoption of multicloud strategies? In this blog, we will explore why this trend is worth considering for your organization, as well as look at the challenges that it brings.

We are pleased to announce today that Shipa, the cloud-native Application as Code platform is now available on the AWS Marketplace. Bringing the power of Shipa to your internal customers on AWS infrastructure has never been easier with click to install from the AWS Marketplace.

Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance. I’ll explain why. With Firefox’s Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer’s website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the site. In this case, I counted 119 requests needed to render the landing page.

If you love Jira then you probably love customization, and we’ve made your integration with Jira Cloud and Jira Server even better with multi-project support! You can now route your incident tickets and follow-up work to remediation teams' Jira projects directly from FireHydrant, saving you valuable time and clean-up work. Let’s take a look at what has changed and some additional use cases unlocked with this integration.

Would your organization benefit from having powerful, yet easy-to-use filters to inspect your nodes? With our latest Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise release, we’ve updated the filters in the user interface to support more advanced queries. SysAdmins, developers, DataOps, and IT managers will all benefit from having access to these powerful filters.