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In case you missed it, for several hours on December 7, 2021, AWS's us-east-1 region had an outage impacting multiple AWS APIs, taking out various websites across the internet. According to our own monitoring at OnlineOrNot, the outage started at 2021-12-07 15:32 UTC and began to recover well at 2021-12-07 22:48 UTC (with minor signs of life for a few minutes around 2021-12-07 20:08 UTC). Had we relied solely on AWS to update their status page before reacting, we would have been waiting a while.

In the first part of this series, we outlined the basic steps you need to take in order to begin setting up a developer environment, installing your first app, and making use of the first commands. In this installment, we’ll aim to answer the most common questions about what was installed, how it works, and how the various pieces interact with each other. Additionally, this post will lay out all the different components that are involved in the overall lifecycle of a Mattermost app.

ITAM and ITSM are two of the most ubiquitous terms used in the ITOps domain. However, the use cases and working methodologies are completely different. These are two ways to manage the IT operations of an organization, focusing on two distinct aspects: One focuses on managing all hardware and software assets, and the other, delivering IT services most efficiently.

Automation has become the backbone for businesses wanting to stay afloat in the highly competitive markets today. Managed Service Providers (MSPs) are among those reaping heavily from IT automation processes. The benefits MSPs obtain from IT automation include lower costs, reduced errors, and increased productivity. With automation, MSPs can acquire better data, become more reliable, and scale their operations.

It wouldn’t be Cybersecurity Awareness month without some spooky-themed blogs with language focused on Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt (FUD). Luckily, it’s the end of November now, and this isn’t that kind of blog, but what was true in October is still true today. I won’t tell you that you need to be afraid of bad actors infiltrating your security defenses and wreaking havoc in your infrastructure. Why? Because you are likely stressed enough already. Don’t you think?

Perhaps because so few of us have been able to travel recently, or perhaps because wanderlust is just good fun, we’ve been wondering as to where the best place to live is as a DBA. And not just where pays the most, or where the opportunities are, but where would truly be the best place to live day-to-day. Some of the findings might surprise you! If you live in any of the places mentioned, we’d love to hear about your experience of living there in a comment below.

In this article, we’re going to explore key reasons why companies need status pages. We’ll also dive into the components of an accurate status page that does its job well. This will make it easier for you to set up your own status page, even if you’ve never done it before.

Calico is the industry standard for Kubernetes networking and security. It offers a proven platform for your workloads across a huge range of environments, including cloud, hybrid, and on-premises. Calico has had a high-quality, production-ready, performant, eBPF data plane option for some time! However, although many users are deploying it in production and benefitting, we still sometimes see users who don’t know that Calico has an eBPF data plane or feel confident deploying it, and.

The JFrog Security research team continuously monitors popular open source software (OSS) repositories with our automated tooling, and reports any vulnerabilities or malicious packages discovered to repository maintainers and the wider community. Most recently we disclosed 11 malicious packages in the PyPI repository, a discovery that shows attacks are getting more sophisticated in their approach.

The two words, “Enterprise Architecture”, elicit various reactions and have no standard definition in the dictionary or technical manual— everything from “we tried that and it’s too much work” to “we need that!” to “what does it mean to have an effective EA practice”. Trial and error also taught us it’s possible (even easy) to do Enterprise Architecture incorrectly!