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At the recent PromCon Online, I gave a review of developments in the space of the Prometheus storage engine, TSDB. In this blog post I am going to recap a bit of the talk and add more insights into what these developments will enable us to do in the future. While the talk contained some of the near-future features, I will be diving even further ahead. You can watch the talk here.

At Taloflow, we’re proud to introduce to you our newest partner, Xosphere. The Xosphere™ Instance Orchestrator™ intelligently manages AWS Spot instances to give your applications 100% reliability at a fraction of the EC2 cost. Customers of Taloflow can use Xosphere in conjunction with Taloflow’s services to seamlessly identify candidates for Spot Management and monitor improvements in EC2 efficiency.

Sysadmin Day 2020 is right around the corner and we’d like to show our appreciation for all the sysadmins out there who keep IT humming along and come to the rescue to resolve critical issues day in and day out. This year, we’re celebrating all week long by hosting an IT Heroes and Homelabs contest. Join the celebration by retweeting our post with the hashtag #SysadminDay #NetdataWin, and we’ll enter you in a drawing to win some Netdata swag!

With open source in our roots, we’re always excited about integrations with tools like OpenVAS, a popular open source vulnerability scanner that Greenbone Networks has maintained since 2009. If you’re not currently using OpenVAS, you can find the project here. OpenVAS contains more than 50,000 vulnerability tests with a community constantly updating its feed to adapt to the ever-evolving security landscape.

When you book a hotel online or with a travel agent, you’ve probably got a wish list that has to do with the size of the room, view, location and amenities. You’re probably not thinking about the technology in the background that makes it all happen. That’s where Hotelbeds comes in. The business-to-business travel technology company operates a hotel distribution platform that travel agents, tour operators, airlines and loyalty programs use to book hotel rooms.

It’s been more than a year-and-a-half since we started using Cypress for our automated functional testing, and it has been well worth the investment. Cypress has now become an essential part of our process to automate regression testing, which helps us ship new releases faster, with increased quality.

While the concept of zero-trust security has many IT organizations thinking in terms of identity, access, and cloud services, zero trust must run on a solid foundation. We should start by talking about the goals of zero-trust security. Zero trust involves creating an environment where each access request is first scrutinized to determine whether it should be allowed.

Feature branch workflows are used to isolate work done on a specific feature in a dedicated branch. This allows all development to be kept away from the team’s common codebase until completion. Essentially keeping the master safe from any risk until it is ready to be merged.

If you are an IT professional, you are technical. You love technology. You love to dabble. You enjoy the thrill that comes from troubleshooting problems and finding a solution. But you probably don’t want to troubleshoot and fix problems all day. There are other interesting things to do. IT can be strategic in helping companies improve their top and bottom line. The complexity of IT continues to increase. The good news is that the need for talented IT staff also continues to grow.

Part I covered our team culture which applies to many different types of work and teams. This part will cover our software engineering best practices that help us stabilize Marathon. Marathon is written in Scala and makes heavy use of Akka Actors and Streams. I probably don’t have to mention that Scala’s type system and its immutable data structures avoid a lot of bugs before we even run unit tests.