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StackStorm 2.9.3/2.10.3

In the last couple of weeks StackStorm has published back-to-back releases. 2.10.2 is a traditional patch release from StackStorm, and you’ll find some of the highlights below. 2.10.3 and 2.9.3; however, are releases to address CVE-2019-9580. I want to thank Barak Tawily and Anna Tsibulskaya: the researchers who discovered and submitted a patch for the issue.

How to Optimize Your WordPress Site for Speed

Site speed is critical to providing an optimal user experience and Google rankings. WordPress is an optimal platform for websites because of its flexibility. About 33% of all websites are built on it. Because of its popularity, there are a variety of technologies, frameworks and plugins available to site owners. While the flexibility is great, it also provides an overwhelming number of choices.

What ITIL 4 means for you and your team

As every company becomes a software company, your role as an IT professional is evolving from supporting the business to differentiating the business. You’re now enabling change and technical innovation to drive competitive advantage. To keep up in this world, it’s time for IT teams to move toward agile approaches that value ease of use, collaboration, and delivering value.

Elasticsearch Mapping Exceptions - The complete guide

As Elasticsearch is gradually becoming the standard for textual data indexing (specifically log data) more companies struggle to scale their ELK stack. We decided to pick up the glove and create a series of posts to help you tackle the most common Elasticsearch performance and functional issues. This post will help you in understanding and solving one of the most frustrating Elasticsearch issues – Mapping exceptions.

Kubernetes Security-Are your Container Doors Open?

Container adoption in IT industry is on a dramatic growth. The surge in container adoption is the driving force behind the eagerness to get on board with the most popular orchestration platform around, organizations are jumping on the Kubernetes bandwagon to orchestrate and gauge their container workloads.

How Sumo Logic Maps DevOps Topologies

A few years ago, our UX team created personas for Sumo Logic. The intention with the personas was to capture the mindset of our different users and to create a common vocabulary throughout our organization. A salesperson could walk into a room with a marketing professional and a designer, and say that she’d just gotten off the phone with a Melinda, and everyone internally would know who Melinda is and how she feels when using Sumo Logic.

EAM: A cost-effective alternative to APM

As with all our Application Performance Management (APM) blogs, we'd like to first append this with a few caveats. Firstly, we’re big fans of APM. For too long enterprise monitoring efforts have focused too heavily on infrastructure - and it was APM that first flipped this paradigm on its head. Secondly, we are by no means an APM tool – and whilst we’ll go into our differences later - we simply share the vision that applications should be put at the heart of your IT monitoring strategy.