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The Platform Engineer Role Explained: Who Is a Platform Engineer?

Poorly designed infrastructure leaves your applications and networks vulnerable to cyberattacks and data breaches. This puts the company at significant risk: the average cost of a data breach reached a record high $4.35 million in 2022. This is where companies bring in platform engineers. A platform engineer is a professional who ensures that security protocols and best practices are in place to protect against potential security threats.

Support for Multi-buildpacks released

There are numerous instances where a single buildpack falls short in app building, for instance when working on a NodeJS app with a PHP backend. We are thrilled to announce the global and immediate availability of Multi-Buildpacks for all app sizes, including our Free tier. The Multi-Buildpack feature allows you to: Alongside the introduction of multi-buildpacks, we're expanding support for Add-on buildpacks (such as APT, Static, or the newly introduced FFmpeg buildpacks).

3 Ways Financial Institutions Can Reduce Operational Risk With Automation

The unexpected collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March served as a wake-up call for financial institutions, depositors, shareholders, and regulators alike. If a seemingly-solid bank like SVB can go under almost overnight, everyone has begun to wonder if any financial institution is safe, with banks and regulators worldwide analyzing the continued risk to the entire banking system.

Trust shouldn't start at zero

How often have you heard the phrase “trust is earned” in life? While well-meaning, I think this can actually lead to some strange behaviour at work, especially when you’re on a fast growing team. Startups experience a lot of chaos and unknowns your teams need to navigate, so it’s vital to know you can trust the people around you. As you grow, how you set expectations around trust as people join your team can impact your ability to hire, onboard, ship and ultimately, survive.

Boosting Resilience with Chaos Engineering: Litmus 3.0 & Beyond | Civo TV

Prithvi Raj explores the world of chaos engineering and discusses its security, comparisons between open-source projects, and the latest Litmus 3.0 release. Discover how chaos engineering is not just about inducing failures, but also an essential aspect of building resilient systems across all stages of development.

Understanding Azure Function App Metrics

This article will focus on the metrics side of Azure Functions and features offered by the Azure Portal and then talk about the value of Serverless360. Then about the product that provides beyond the primary feature set in the Azure Portal, which will help you improve the day-to-day operations of your Azure solution. There are many different ways you can manage and operate Azure Functions and features like Application Insights which can also help you with Azure Functions.

Assembly time is where you have the most control of an incident

The FDNY EMS Command responds to more than 4,000 calls per day. They range from car accidents to building fires to cats stuck in trees, and responses vary accordingly. Sometimes they might take hours, sometimes they take just a few minutes. With such unpredictable conditions, the FDNY focuses on improving what they call “response time.” That’s the amount of time between a 911 call being made and emergency responders arriving on the scene. This might sound familiar.

Unlock the Secrets of Kernel Memory Usage

The mem.kernel chart in Netdata provides insight into the memory usage of various kernel subsystems and mechanisms. By understanding these dimensions and their technical details, you can monitor your system's kernel memory usage and identify potential issues or inefficiencies. Monitoring these dimensions can help you ensure that your system is running efficiently and provide valuable insights into the performance of your kernel and memory subsystem.