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What is the difference between SSL vs. TLS? Which Gives Your Website the Best Protection?

One of the most important considerations if you're seeking maximum security for your website is using encryption protocols. You have two choices: SSL (secure sockets layer) and TLS (transport layer security). These commonly used protocols encrypt internet communications and protect sensitive website data from malicious attacks. Let's cover the key differences between SSL and TLS and point you in the right direction for choosing the best protocol for your website.

Site24x7 integrates with Zoho Directory for a simple, secure, and native user access management

User management poses a significant challenge to business and IT teams alike. Privacy and compliance regulations necessitate restricted access to critical production environments along with any IT tools used within the organization. When personnel transition to new roles, organizations, or departments that no longer require access to production environments, it is imperative that business and IT teams swiftly remove their permissions to avoid any issues that could arise during audits.

InfluxDB 3.0 vs ADX

Over the past few years, time series is one of the fastest growing database categories in the world. As more and more organizations realize how critical time series data is to their operations, more database options entered the market. InfluxDB has been the leading time series database for years, and with the release of InfluxDB 3.0, it remains at the vanguard of the time series world.

Monitor your OpenAI usage with Datadog

OpenAI is an AI research and development company whose products include the GPT family of large language models. Since the introduction of GPT-3 in 2020, these models’ fluent and adaptable processing of both natural language and code has propelled their rapid adoption across diverse fields. GPT-4, ChatGPT, and InstructGPT are now used extensively in software development, content creation, and more.

Checkly Unveils Innovative CLI Uniting Monitoring and Testing Through a Monitoring as Code Workflow

Checkly, the leading provider of monitoring solutions powered by a monitoring as code (MaC) workflow, has announced the general availability of its new, innovative command line interface, the Checkly CLI. This enables a revolutionary workflow that transforms the way testing and monitoring are done, bringing a new level of efficiency and effectiveness to the industry similar to the impact that Infrastructure as code (IaC) had on infrastructure resources.

Checkly's New Look for a New Era

We're thrilled to unveil our new branding and website, reflecting our commitment to providing engineers with the best monitoring as code (MaC) platform for modern software stacks. Our rebranding efforts signify a new era for Checkly and highlight our commitment to continuous innovation and dedication to enabling a MaC workflow for you and your teams.

Building MJML email templates with Gulp

This is the second post in the series about building email templates with MJML and deploying them on AWS. In the previous post, we learned about MJML and Handlebars.js for creating cross-browser email templates with dynamic content. In this post, I will show you how you can script the building process of MJML emails and prepare them for upload on AWS. Let's do a quick recap. In the previous post, I created a simple mail template in MJML.