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A Quick Guide to Encrypted Messaging

With it now being so easy to share information, we have a tendency to over-divulge. We check into public places online, tell the world when we’re going on holiday and where, and send and receive risqué photos. However, when it became public knowledge that the NSA, internet service providers, and trusted social media platforms were able to monitor our private messages, the choice to share or not to share was taken away from us.

AWS monitoring 101: Metrics to watch out for

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is one of the most popular public cloud providers today. Over the years, AWS’ services have expanded from cloud computing to application development and security. To retain the reliability, availability, and performance of your AWS instances, an AWS cloud monitoring solution is a must. It’s critical for AWS monitoring tools to collect data from all parts of your AWS service, so that multi-point failure can be easily debugged.

The Key to Keeping Stakeholders Informed during Incident Management

Keeping stakeholders informed and engaged during a service disruption is a critical part of incident management. Now with free stakeholder licenses from Opsgenie, all of the key people in your organization can view service status pages and receive communications for incidents that affect them.

Generating Word Embeddings with Gensim's word2vec

During our Activate presentation, we talked about how to do query expansion by dynamically generating synonyms. Instead of statically defining synonyms lists, we showed a demo of how you could use word2vec to derive synonyms from a dataset. Before we start, check out a useful Solr Cheat Sheets to guide you through Solr and help boost your productivity and save time.

How to Make Kubernetes Work for Everyone

Kubernetes is the de-facto container orchestration standard, used to manage Docker containers in production. With every cloud provider offering Kubernetes services, it is also shaping up to be a standard form of computing infrastructure. At Rancher Labs, we build products and technologies that drive the mass market adoption of Kubernetes.

AWS Service Icon Vector Pack: Part Deux

We’re back with another giveaway, and this time it includes every icon released by Amazon in their AWS Architecture Icon PowerPoint deck. You can find the original deck here. The link below provides an svg file for every service and resource icon provided by Amazon in the PowerPoint file each grouped by the service category. That is a total of over 300 icons for you to use when creating your architecture diagrams, in SVG format so you never have to worry about size or screen resolution.