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A look back at 2019: A road that led us to greater heights!

What a great year 2019 turned out to be for ManageEngine IT operations management (ITOM) solutions! This past year, we introduced new features to help improve the performance of network devices, VMs, applications, etc. for organizations of any size. On the note of organization size, we introduced three new editions this year, each designed to cater to the IT operations management requirements of organizations of different sizes.

Multiple Hacking Groups Attempt to Skim Credit Cards from Perricone MD

During research into Magecart attacks, I recently uncovered malicious code from two hacking groups attempting to steal credit card information on the European e-commerce websites for the science-backed skincare brand Perricone MD (affecting perriconemd.co.uk, perriconemd.it and perriconemd.de). Founded by U.S. celebrity dermatologist Nicholas Perricone, the company generated sales of $86 million in 2014 and are looking to fetch more than $200 million in a rumoured upcoming sale.

Logging Redis with ELK and Logz.io

Redis is an extremely fast NoSQL data store. While it is used mainly as a cache, it can be applied to uses as diverse as graph representation and search. Client libraries are available in all of the major programming languages, and it is provided as a managed service by all of the top cloud service providers. For the past three years, Redis has been named the most loved database by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.

Enable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores Action

A month ago, Skeddly added a Disable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores action. This action is a fantastic way to ensure you don’t leave EBS snapshots around with Fast Snapshot Restores enabled. That will just be a waste of money. Today, I’m happy to announce a new Skeddly action: Enable EBS Fast Snapshot Restores. This new action allows you to enable, and optionally disable Fast Snapshot Restores on your EBS snapshots.

Lessons in Building Well-Formed Scrum and Kanban Teams

In the early days of Amazon, Jeff Bezos set a rule: teams shouldn’t be larger than what two pizzas can feed, no matter how large a company gets. Setting this rule of small teams meant individuals spent less time providing status updates to each other and more time actually getting stuff done. It also allowed team members more time to focus on continuous improvement. PagerDuty, like Amazon, has a strong culture of continuous improvement.