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Security and Monitoring with Istio - Take5

Kubernetes can be a great orchestration platform for your microservices but these services can grow complex and difficult to manage. Enter Istio, an integrated way to create a network of your services and manage load balancing, authentication, and more! Join us as we walk you through Istio and several ways it can help you wrangle your applications.

10 Things You Should Avoid in B2B Marketing

As you know, B2B marketing refers to the techniques and practices used by companies to sell their product or services to other organizations and businesses rather than individuals. The most essential thing in B2B marketing is to reach out to the right customers and influence them to purchase. However, in achieving this, there are some pitfalls you would want to avoid.

Setting Up Application Performance Monitoring with the ELK Stack and Logz.io

Application Performance Monitoring, aka APM, is one of the most common methods used by engineers today to measure the availability, response times and behavior of applications and services. There are a variety of APM solutions in the market but if you’re familiar with the ELK Stack or are a Logz.io user, this article describes using a relatively new open source-based solution — Elastic APM.

Whitelist Email Addresses in Outlook ...for Office365 and Outlook Web

TLDR; "If you expect to receive important emails from a trusted email address it is worth whitelisting the address to make sure that emails won't be accidentally blocked by an overzealous email client." Here we provide step-by-step instructions on how to do it in Outlook for Office365 by adding the email address to your safe senders list...

Birds of a Fiber: A look at Falcon, a modern asynchronous web server for Ruby

The GitHub Readme describes Falcon as, "... *a multi-process, multi-fiber rack-compatible HTTP server ... Each request is executed within a lightweight fiber and can block on up-stream requests without stalling the entire server process." The gist: Falcon aims to increase throughput of web applications by using Ruby’s Fibers to be able to continue serving requests while other requests are waiting on IO (ActiveRecord queries, network requests, file read/write, etc).

Scout Visits Cookpad in Japan

The Tokyo Scout team attended Rails Tokyo #37, a Rails focused get-together that is open to any Rails topic. It was hosted at the Cookpad office in Tokyo, which has some of the best Rails engineers in Japan. In this large open area there were tables, a screen for presentations and a large kitchen island. At these Cookpad events, Cookpad provides an extensive meal prepared in house by a chef!!