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Amazon ECS allows you to easily run containers in AWS in units called tasks. Groups of identical tasks are called services, and groups of services running on the same infrastructure are called clusters. Since it is critical to the health of your application, properly monitoring ECS is a top priority for most teams. In this blog post, we will go over how Blue Matador monitors ECS tasks automatically and without configuration.

Few things have more potential for causing stress within software teams than a defective build cycle. Each of us remembers the first time in our careers when our code broke the build. For many of us, there’s still a sigh of relief at each step in the process when nothing blows up. In a perfect world, where we’d all write flawless code with 100% test coverage, builds would be stressless, boring affairs.

October is the month of spooky scares, so it makes sense that National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is also recognized at this time—after all, what’s more scary than, for example, having someone phish for your personal information and using said info to ruin your credit or losing your password to hackers so they have access to your bank account?

If there is still a reason why you have a post-it covering the webcam of your laptop, if you have not yet had the audacity to delve into the deep web despite all the mysteries they say it contains, if you only enter the Internet in incognito mode, sitting in your armchair with a blindfold: then you’re worried about one thing: safety. Today, in our blog, we will discuss Web browser security. Which are the safest? Is there life beyond Google Chrome?

Despite a rocky year in the global economy, global venture deal volume grew by over 9.3 percent in the third quarter of 2019, up nearly 9.9 percent from Q3 2018, according to Crunchbase. The year 2018 was a banner year for dollar volume: startups raised $130.9 billion, which surpassed the epic year of 2000, according to Pitchbook.

A core tenet of managed services is the ability of an MSP to support multiple clients, in various locations, all without ever leaving your desk. While this approach is more efficient and profitable than dispatching engineers out to client sites to deal with every support ticket that comes in, there’s a catch. The challenge is when you become good at doing managed services in this way, you don’t have much of an excuse to visit your client sites at all.

Informatica is an enterprise cloud data management company, which means they have a full suite of products that focus on data integration and data management. In fact, they are a leader in 5 different magic quadrants including Enterprise Integration Platform as a Service, Data Quality Tools, and Master Data Management Solutions.