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DIY Tool Website Greenworks Hacked by Self-Destructing Web-Skimmer

Whilst researching recent client-side attacks our security team observed a highly-sophisticated self-cleaning and self-destructing skimmer on the popular hardware tool website Greenworks. The hack was first spotted by RapidSpike’s Client-Side Security Scanner on June 8th, and at the time of writing, the hack is still live on www.greenworkstools.com/.

New in Prometheus v2.19.0: Memory-mapping of full chunks of the head block reduces memory usage by as much as 40%

The just-released Prometheus v2.19.0 introduces the new feature of memory-mapping full chunks of the head (in-memory) block from disk, which reduces memory usage and also makes restarts faster. I will be talking about this feature in this blog post.

Best practices for database performance optimization

Proactive database performance monitoring is essential to maintain resource utilization and system performance. As data volumes grow, it is critical to monitor databases properly to deliver a seamless enduser experience, and lower IT infrastructure costs. Pinpointing database issues as they occur can assist in faster troubleshooting, and keeping the health of the application intact. Without monitoring, database outages may go unnoticed, and lead to loss of business reputation and profit.

Reduce Monitoring Costs: How to Identify and Filter Unneeded Telemetry Data

To understand what’s going on in their environment, DevOps teams usually ship some combination of logs, metrics and traces—depending on which signals they’re hoping to monitor. Each data type will expose different information about what is happening in a system. However, not all of that information will be helpful on a day-to-day basis, which can rack up unnecessary data storage costs. That should require users start to filter telemetry data across their observability stacks.

THE CTO PERSPECTIVE | Application Modernization: Root Cause Changes

Welcome to The CTO Perspective – discussions on the most current issues in IT Operations. In this talk: Changes in software and infrastructure are the main cause of outages in the modern IT Stack. How do you embrace change without compromising service quality and availability?

Access commit data for each release with Sentry and Heroku

Heroku is a fully managed, container-based, cloud platform for deploying and running modern apps. Heroku takes an app-centric approach to software delivery and integrates with today’s most popular developer tools and workflows. One of today’s (and yesterday’s and tomorrow’s) most popular developer tools is Sentry.