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It’s a new year, and an especially great time to reflect on the security of your robots. After all, those interested in breaching it are probably doing the same. In previous articles, we discussed ROS security by detailing practical steps for securing your robots on Ubuntu and the challenges the community faces. In this blog post, I’ll give you some strategies, tips and open-source tools you can integrate into your development process today to ramp up the security of your project.

We’ve just released Calico v3.25! This milestone release includes a number of eBPF dataplane improvements designed to deliver an even faster upgrade experience, smaller memory footprint, and shorter eBPF networking object load time speed. But before we get into the details of these changes, let’s welcome and thank our new community problem-solvers who got their first contribution requests merged into our beloved project.

Sensu offers a complete solution for infrastructure monitoring and observability, designed to give you visibility into all of your important infrastructure components, including containers, applications, traditional server closets, and the cloud. Sensu Go is a commercial product based on an open source core that is freely available under a permissive MIT License and publicly available on GitHub.

With Solr 9 the Autoscaling Framework was removed – for being too complex and not terribly reliable – and instead we have Replica Placement Plugins. Unlike Autoscaling, replica placement only happens when you create a collection or add a new replica. Hence the name: it’s about where to place these new replicas. In this article, we’ll look at the available replica placement plugins, what you can use them for and how to use them.

When it comes to centralizing logs to Elasticsearch, the first log shipper that comes to mind is Logstash. People hear about it even if it’s not clear what it does: – Bob: I’m looking to aggregate logs – Alice: you mean… like… Logstash? When you get into it, you realize centralizing logs often implies a bunch of things, and Logstash isn’t the only log shipper that fits the bill.

AWS services have faced many outages in the past and the impact of these outages is well known in the tech world. Multiple AWS services are affected during such scenarios, which drastically impact customers and businesses. When business-critical applications are hosted on AWS, it becomes necessary for businesses to adopt fool-proof methods to avoid outages. An outage can be a wake-up call for enterprises to create business continuity plans and implement a solution to monitor AWS health.

Azure SFTP (Secure File Transfer Protocol) is a service provided by Microsoft Azure that enables you to transfer files securely to and from Azure storage. The service is built on the SFTP protocol, which provides a secure way to transfer files over the internet by encrypting both the data in transit and the data at rest. Azure SFTP allows you to easily automate the transfer of large amounts of data such as backups and log files, to and from your Azure storage account.

As a small business, we at Monitive understand the importance of being mindful of both the past and the future. We've been in the uptime monitoring business for almost 13 years now and we are proud to say that in 2022, we had a decent financial performance. As we value transparency and honesty above all else, we're excited to share our accomplishments with you and also talk about our plans for 2023.

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