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Configuring Data Loss Prevention

Redacting PII (DLP): Speedscale can be configured to redact personally identifiable (PII) or other sensitive information (PII) from traffic via it's data loss prevention (DLP) features. This redaction happens before data leaves your network, preventing the Speedscale service from seeing the data at all. However, the overall shape or structure of the data is retained in order to facilitate useful testing against systems.

What is Service Catalog Observability and How Does It Work?

A service catalog gives teams a shared view of their systems—what services exist, who owns them, how dependencies are structured, and the SLAs that guide expectations. It’s an important part of development infrastructure because it helps everyone speak the same language about services. Service catalog observability builds on that foundation.

Snowflake Pricing In 2025: Your Usage And Cost Guide

Snowflake’s scalable architecture, minimal latency, advanced analytics, simplified data handling, flexible pay-as-you-go model, and always-on security make the data cloud a top choice for many businesses. You can also purchase Snowflake resources on demand or upfront. But if you struggle to control your Snowflake costs, you’re not alone. With the help of this guide, you’ll know how to manage your Snowflake costs better.

Puppet Control Repository: Your Source of Truth for Infrastructure Management

Learn the fundamentals of Puppet's Control Repository with Margaret and Tony in this comprehensive walkthrough. See how Control Repos serve as your single source of truth for managing configuration across your entire infrastructure, driving collaboration and standardization while simplifying code deployments.

Behind Megaport's Network Automation Platform

We’ve teamed up with the Heavy Networking podcast to take you under the hood of Megaport’s resilient, software-driven network. Luke Gollan, Network Automation Engineer at Megaport, joins Heavy Networking hosts Ethan Banks and Drew Conry-Murray to unpack what happens when you click “provision” in the Megaport portal.

DevOps Guide to Monitoring in Serverless Applications

Serverless computing helps teams move faster by removing the need to manage servers. Code runs only when needed, scaling up or down automatically. For DevOps engineers, this means quicker deployments and less infrastructure work. But serverless also brings new challenges. Functions run for short periods, making it hard to track errors, performance, and costs.

FireHydrant 4-Minute Demo

Get a quick walkthrough of the FireHydrant platform. FireHydrant is the all-in-one incident management platform that helps teams resolve incidents up to 90% faster — and prevent them from happening again. From flexible alerting and powerful automation to retros and AI insights, it brings clarity and control to every step of your response.

How to make Netflix reliable: Address low-hanging fruit

Reliability doesn’t have to be fancy and dramatic. Kolton and his team dramatically improved Netflix reliability by focusing on low-hanging fruit. FULL TRANSCRIPT: My first holiday peak at Netflix, where my VP of engineering came to me and he said, "Kolton, what do you think the chance we make it through the holiday peak without an outage is?"  I thought about it for a minute and I said, "50/50.".