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Building bridges across clouds: the PayPal approach to unified business communication

Learn how PayPal solved multi-cloud connectivity challenges using HAProxy to build Meridian, achieving 24% latency reduction and seamless integration across AWS, GCP, and Azure with overlapping IP spaces. HAProxy is the company behind HAProxy One, the world’s fastest application delivery and security platform, and HAProxy, the most widely used software load balancer. Leading platforms and cloud providers trust HAProxy to simplify, scale, and secure modern applications, APIs, and AI services in any environment.

Taming Your Dynatrace Bill: How to Cut Observability Costs, Not Visibility

Dynatrace is a powerhouse for application performance monitoring and business analytics. But for many organizations, its power comes with a significant challenge: as applications scale across complex hybrid environments and diverse tech stacks, the sheer volume and variety of logs, metrics, and traces sent to the platform can explode, leading to staggering and unpredictable costs.

Early preview: Auto-translation in Mattermost channels

In this demo, we’re showcasing an early prototype of channel-based auto-translation in Mattermost — designed to break down language barriers in global operations. Watch how users can seamlessly read messages in their preferred language across any channel, enabling inclusive, multilingual collaboration in real time. Note: This is an early prototype demo. The capability has not yet been released in Mattermost but is on our roadmap for the near future (release date TBD).

Zero Trust Starts with Zero Blind Spots

Zero Trust is more than a buzzword in today’s cybersecurity playbook, it’s a strategic imperative. Federal agencies, defense operations, and civilian infrastructure providers are all under mounting pressure to deploy Zero Trust Architecture (ZTA) frameworks that are not only compliant but truly effective. But there’s a problem: Zero Trust can only succeed if it’s built on real-time, actionable insight. That means eliminating blind spots.

Throughput Upgrade (With Train Illustrations!)

URLs) receive spiky traffic:. The Healthchecks open-source project includes a fully functional, tested and type-annotated ping handler written in Python. On self-hosted Healthchecks instances, when you send an HTTP request to a ping URL, a Django view collects and validates information from the request, then uses Django ORM to update a Check object in the database and insert a Ping object in the database. This approach is good for tens to low hundreds of requests per second, depending on hardware.

From legacy to security: Ivanti Connect Secure

When I took on leading the Network Security Group (NSG) at Ivanti in October 2024, it was a bit like a homecoming for me. You see, I spent almost two decades overseeing the development of these products before moving on to other responsibilities at Ivanti. NSG is responsible for building and maintaining Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and Neurons for ZTNA, among other solutions.