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Kubernetes Security: 9 Best Practices for Keeping It Safe

Kubernetes dominates the container orchestration market in every way. According to the latest State of Kubernetes and Container Security study, 88% of enterprises utilise Kubernetes to manage a portion of their container workloads. Kubernetes and other orchestration systems have given software deployment and management a new level of robustness and customization. They also brought attention to the current security landscape's shortcomings.

Better Protect your Corporate Data While Ensuring Optimal Service Delivery for your Business Lines

Within an organization, the Network Operations Center (NOC) and Security Operations Center (SOC) teams need to work together to maintain optimal network performance in addition to ensuring both overall security and the availability of IT services for business lines. In the past, these two teams were focused on two separate objectives, using different tools to do so and often running specific processes.

DBAle 38: That's absurd! Does it even pass as database development?

It’s officially National Absurdity Day, although, this could pass as just another DBAle. In the (soya) meat of the episode, our hosts pass the time discussing the frankly absurd database development practices that are somehow still passable in 2021. While the news celebrates the PASS Data Community Summit, and the importance of passwords in data security with Troy Hunt. So, pass yourself a beer, a champers, or a Passoa, and tune in – cheers.

How We Deploy Product Releases at xMatters

With Halloween behind us and the holiday shopping season fast approaching, engineering and product teams know what that means: code freezes! At xMatters, code freezes are a part of our product release process in anticipation of the busiest — and most important — time of the year for many of our customers. But code freezes are just one piece of the puzzle in how we ensure our customers have the most reliable experiences. The way our product releases are designed is much more than that.

How Sabre is using SRE to lead a successful digital transformation

Editor’s note: Today we hear from Kenny Kon, an SRE Director at Sabre. Kenny shares about how they have been able to successfully adopt Google’s SRE framework by leveraging their partnership with Google Cloud. As a leader in the travel industry, Sabre Corporation is driving innovation in the global travel industry and developing solutions that help airlines, hotels, and travel agencies transform the traveler experience and satisfy the ever-evolving needs of its customers.

Mail Assure achieves top result in Virus Bulletin testing

We’re pleased to announce that N-able™ Mail Assure has received a top result in an independent test conducted by the Virus Bulletin, an industry-renowned test laboratory and an important reference for specialists and businesses concerned with computer security. So, what exactly is this test and how did Mail Assure achieve such a great score?

How Snyk, TripAdvisor, and Citibank use Grafana to effectively scale observability

It’s one thing to set up an observability strategy. But what’s it like to introduce and scale observability effectively across an organization? In a wide-ranging conversation at ObservabilityCON 2021, three technical pros from Snyk, TripAdvisor, and Citibank joined Grafana Labs VP Global Solutions Engineering Steve Mayzak and — with more than 75 years experience between them — they shared the triumphs and turbulence in their respective observability journeys.