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Break out your buzzword bingo cards, it’s time to talk about SASE or Secure Access Service Edge. Pronounced “sassy,” SASE has become one of the hottest topics in networking and security over the last three years. The basic idea is great: all your security and network services are on one platform. The problem comes when you get into the specifics. When does a set of services go from “not SASE” to “SASE”?

Azure Advisor analyzes your configurations and usage telemetry and offers personalized, actionable recommendations to help you optimize your Azure resources for reliability, security, operational excellence, performance, and cost. Azure Advisor is a free service and can be accessed via the GUI on the Azure portal where recommendations are collated and can be manually examined. Azure Advisor makes recommendations for potential improvements in several areas, including.

Service ownership, a DevOps best practice, is a method that many companies are pivoting towards. The benefits of service ownership are varied and include boons such as bringing development teams much closer to their customers, the business, and the value being delivered. The “build it, own it model” has tangible effects on customer experience, as developers are incentivized to innovate and drive customer-facing features that delight.

Welcome to another month of What’s New in Sysdig in 2022! I’m Joshua Ma, a Customer Solutions Engineer based out of sunny Los Angeles. I joined the Customer Success team at Sysdig five months ago. After having my first taste of K8s, containers, and Falco at the North America KubeCon/CloudNativeCon in 2019, I haven’t looked back since!

Innovation in DevSecOps must keep pace with the speed of the dynamic, volatile modern cybersecurity environment. Yesterday’s solution worked beautifully…yesterday. What has it done for me today? Continual iteration and speed are paramount, but they’re not without risks. As a SaaS provider, how do you know that the latest evolution of your product works at scale? How do you know that it works at all?

Efficiently retrieving Kubernetes metrics is the beginning of cluster performance optimization. Cluster metrics such as logs and resources descriptions are crucial as they map the health of your cluster. There’s a Kubernetes tool called K9s that lets you access your Kubernetes cluster metrics swiftly using short keys. K9s prioritizes aesthetics and performance as it displays its contents and functions in an aesthetically pleasing UI.

In every workplace, most work gets done at the most cluttered desks. Yet the business also requires an orderly front office to run efficiently. It’s much the same with your DevOps pipeline environments, as the rough and tumble process of innovating code must ultimately produce cleanly released applications. Continuous integration means that developers perform many builds each day, but few of those builds will advance to production repositories.

Technology is the catalyst that propels business innovation. It’s the means of ridding inefficiency, delay, and inconsistency from business processes. Technology is the essential element of success for virtually every business in every industry. That’s why technology excellence ranks at the top of every business leader’s list of priorities. Maintaining the level and quality of technology service you need to be competitive comes with many challenges.

In this issue of the Calico Community Spotlight series, I’ve asked Burak Tahtacioglu from ParkLab Technology to share his experience with Kubernetes and Calico Open Source. Let’s take a look at how Burak started his Kubernetes journey, and the insights he gained from Calico Open Source. Q: Please tell us a little bit about yourself, including where you currently work and what you do there. I am a Sr. Software Developer in our Developer Experience team.

Back in May of this year, Verizon published its 15th annual Data Breach Investigation Report (DBIR) for 2022 which states that 82% of breaches involved the human element, whether it is the user of stolen credentials, phishing, misuse, or an error, people are the biggest contributors to security incidents and breaches. The past several months has also resulted in numerous phishing attacks via corporate email and SMS text messages.