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Every day we discover new vulnerabilities in our systems, cracks in the fence the adversaries take advantage of to get into your organization and wreak havoc. Understanding what you have in your environment (e.g., types of devices, systems equipment, etc.) is very important in order to make sure the controls in place are working and more importantly, keeping up with the threat landscape.

We are excited to announce a new integration to help developers add partner solutions to their serverless applications. AWS recently released Lambda Extensions to allow Lambda to augment the Function invocation lifecycle. Extensions from AWS, AWS Lambda Ready partners, and open source projects are useful for a wide range of use cases. For example, Extensions simplify a development workflow by automatically instrumenting Lambda functions or deploying operational tools without needing code changes.

As a researcher interested in teamwork and team effectiveness, March 2020 was a fascinating moment for me. Around the world, knowledge workers at organisations large and small were suddenly forced to work from their homes. As we scrambled to get a read on the effect this was having inside Atlassian, we also commissioned an international, multimodal study to capture and make sense of the impact on individuals and teams across a range of industries as they grappled with these extraordinary changes.

Work remains work, regardless of the location. Working remotely has become the new normal, but some organizations have started to return to their office workspaces, albeit with a minimal workforce. Though going back to work may not be as difficult as adapting to remote work instantly, certain operational challenges are unavoidable; for example, monitoring workspace infrastructure is nothing new, but managing different locations simultaneously has yet to become customary.

We know that tuning your SCOM alerts can be a time consuming and arduous task! That’s why the release of Easy Tune 2.0 bring with it not only, new improved features and functionality, but also a more user friendly, customer-focused portfolio of tuning packages. Our new suite of tuning products is designed to suit any business from low-budget SMEs to large scale enterprises, with endless tuning requirements.

Linux is one of the most popular and widely used open-source operating systems in the world today. It provides the key advantage of stability, compatibility, security and customization. Since Linux servers are the backbone of an organization’s IT infrastructure, a sudden change in the CPU usage or memory can adversely affect the performance of applications.

The emergence of GitOps has been an interesting and important recent development in the Infrastructure as Code (IaC) space.

Companies are leveraging the power of Kubernetes to accelerate the delivery of resilient and scalable applications to meet the pace of business. These applications are highly dynamic, making it operationally challenging to securely connect to databases or other resources protected behind firewalls.

Given the increasing complexity of network architecture and IT infrastructure, application performance management (APM) solutions have become a critical element in the toolbox of IT managers, DevOps, and developers. And, for good reasons. APM can pay handsome dividends in terms of quickly resolving bandwidth constraints, availability issues, and enhancing the credibility of your business.

We continue with our series of articles on containers. First, we started with creating our own images with Docker Build and saw how to run them with Docker run. But today we will learn what Docker Compose is and start our journey into the world of container orchestration. Up to now we have managed containers manually and separately, which for some specific test may be valid and functional. But when the number of containers to manage starts growing, this method becomes infeasible.