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HAProxyConf 2019 - How HAProxy Helped Me Get "Near Perfect" Uptime by Eric Martinson

PlaceWise Digital is the leading provider of digital services to the shopping center industry, delivering over 200 million digital engagements annually to over 800 shopping center clients throughout North America. In the US alone, the company possesses a nearly 50% market share, yet our infrastructure team is just one: me. In this talk, I’m going to share my experiences using HAProxy to meet the demands of serving millions of visitors on Black Friday, dealing with applications that can’t be clustered, and other technical challenges that we faced and overcame to build a robust and scalable platform.

Logit.io Announce New Dashboard Design

We're happy to announce that we've just launched our newly designed dashboard for our logs & metrics platform, allowing DevOps & security professionals to see their vital metrics quicker than ever before. Our team has been keen to respond to the needs of our users through undertaking dedicated research which informed the creation of this latest update to the platform's design. This new design provides improved real-time feedback to users managing & creating new ELK stacks.

Does Your Team Know What Your Code Is Doing Right Now?

Software development teams are much larger than the engineers that write code. Writing and deploying code are often only the tip of the iceberg. A well oiled software team will often consist of: All of these people need to know something about what the software development lifecycle is producing and shipping, but the level of information can vary dramatically based on a team member's position. Sleuth was built to automatically generate information to satisfy each team member's needs.

The JFrog Platform

Manage your DevOps pipeline from a single pane of glass. The JFrog Platform provides a universal end-to-end solution that integrates with your ecosystem to orchestrate and optimize all key processes in your CI / CD pipeline. Deliver fearless updates from code to the edge in self-managed, on-prem, hybrid, and multi-cloud environments.

Azure Storage Queue vs Service Bus Queue

There are two types of queuing mechanisms supported by Azure. Storage Queues are part of the Azure Storage infrastructure, feature a simple REST-based GET/PUT/PEEK interface, providing reliable, persistent messaging within and between services. Service Bus Queues are part of a broader Azure messaging infrastructure that supports queuing as well as publish/subscribe mechanism, and more advanced integration patterns.

ServerlessDays Nashville & the serverless mindset

Whether you help architect serverless applications at work or you’re just getting started in the community, chances are you’ve caught wind of a ServerlessDays event. Each one gathers members of a local community to talk about where serverless technology currently stands and where it’s going. The best part is that they are a true community event, built by and for serverless users.

Security in Go Modules and Vulnerabilities in GoCenter at GoSF Meetup in San Francisco

Deep Datta from the JFrog Community Team shares his learnings about Go 1.13 introducing important security features to Go Modules including a checksumdb. He explains how this works and provides information on other tools in GoCenter that keep modules secure include vulnerability scanning and Jfrog Xray.

Introduction to Helm 3 the Package Manager for Kubernetes

Helm is the package manager for Kubernetes (like yum, apt and home brew ) that allows easily package, configure, and deploy applications onto Kubernetes clusters. Helm charts are packages (like debs and rpms) It contains pre-configured kubernetes resources such as ConfigMaps, Deployments ,StatefulSet manifests, PersistentVolumes and editable settings for them.