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Icinga 2.10.2 bugfix release

With the TLS connection improvements there was also another bug with hanging TLS connections unveiled. Turns out, this has been sitting there since 2.8.2 and not only affects JSON-RPC cluster connections but also HTTP request sessions, as being used inside the Director kickstart wizard for example. Tom is working on a fix for Director 1.6 in order to support older Icinga 2 versions too.

When Every Minute Matters

Human trafficking is a $150 billion dollar criminal industry that denies freedom to over 40 million people globally—and it happens in every country in the world. Polaris is an organization dedicated to ending human trafficking and restoring freedom to survivors. For over a decade, Polaris has operated the U.S. National Human Trafficking Hotline.

Honeycomb and Rookout: An Integration That Finds the Dots to Connect

You probably know that Honeycomb is the most flexible observability tool around. Its powerful high-cardinality search makes working with real raw data quick and easy. But as you may have learned through hard experience, fetching those dots can still be quite a challenge.

Exploring Nordcloud's Promise to Deliver 100 Percent Alert-Based Security Operations to Customers

We are a multi-cloud managed services provider (MSP) that works strictly with Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP) and Microsoft Azure. We’ve been working with enterprise public cloud leaders in Europe since 2012 and our goal is to provide fully managed public cloud transformation to our customers.

AWS ReInvent: Serverless, Stackery, and Corey Quinn of LastWeekInAWS

Welcome savvy builder. If you’ve made it to our corner of the Internet and headed to re:invent, you are in the right place. We want you to leave Las Vegas with the savvy to choose how and when to apply the growing menu of serverless capabilities to your initiatives. To help you, we’re sending our serverless-first engineers to Las Vegas with three goals.

PPS Spike Every 110 Seconds on AWS EC2

I don’t know what to say about this post… I found something weird while investigating PPS on EC2. It seems to correlate with CPU credits on t1/t2/t3 instances, but is consistently inconsistent in presentation. It only shows up when you track the stats yourself, because Cloudwatch doesn’t show the 1-second granularity needed to see these numbers.

Five cybersecurity best practices to follow in 2019

Research by Cybersecurity Ventures predicts ransomware alone will cost businesses around the world more than $11.5 billion in 2019. What’s worse, this same study also predicts businesses will experience a cyberattack every 14 seconds by 2019, up from once every 40 seconds in 2016. So what can you do to mitigate the increasing threat of cyberattacks? Here are five IT security best practices that can help.