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Shipping Terraform Logs with the Logz.io Provider & API

Logz.io has deepened its partnership with Hashicorp over the last few months. Recently, we announced our integration with their service mesh, Hashicorp Consul. Simultaneously, we have worked on and completed an integration with their infrastructure orchestrator (a.k.a, infrastructure-as-code or IAC), Terraform. IACs take manual configurations and treats them as, well, code (along with procedures, build guides, run books, etc.).

How to Reduce Your AWS Costs

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a comprehensive cloud computing platform, providing an array of services to manage a business’s data infrastructure to help it grow and expand. With the wide range of services provided, it has multiple options to provide you with an elastic approach to optimize your costs. However, many users struggle with controlling their expenditure due to a variety of factors. Getting a complete understanding of how to reduce your AWS operational costs may be a daunting task.

Manage Splunk On-Call Using Terraform

HashiCorp’s Terraform has emerged as a powerful tool for managing infrastructure as code. Teams can fully describe an application’s infrastructure needs such as physical machines, VMs, containers and more using configuration files. This allows the application infrastructure to be version controlled, reducing human errors during deployments.

What You Need to Know About Serverless Security

Developers at Airbnb, BBC, Netflix, and Nike all share something in common: They’re using serverless computing to ship new products and features faster than ever. And they represent a growing trend. As businesses compete to quickly deliver customer value, a whopping 60% of enterprises have already adopted, or are planning to use, serverless architectures.

Managing Remote Teams: 3 Steps to Success

At times, directing projects in multiple locales from a desktop or laptop feels like conducting an orchestra in the dark. Coordinating with diverse, remote teams of developers producing software on an agile schedule of continual updates and releases can be especially nerve-wracking. At Sleuth, we’re crushing the remote-work challenge because, in 20 years of managing from afar, we’ve learned a thing or two — actually three — about how to do it right.

Empowering Digital Transformation Through Network Automation

2020 has seen a real acceleration in the adoption of new digital business models. At Capacity Europe last week, PCCW Global’s VP of Digital Innovation Marketing, Neil Templeton, took to the virtual stage to explain how network automation is helping businesses embrace digital transformation. “Since March and the onset of COVID 19, we’ve seen an accelerated pace of change with businesses and their move to digital transformation.

FTP and SFTP: What's The Difference?

In the Information Age, data is currency. Controlling the flow of information and more importantly, protecting it has increasingly become a focal point for companies who want to remain competitive in modern markets. Improving data efficiency, integrity, and security is often how companies separate themselves from their peers. We present two of the most common methods for data transfers: FTP and SFTP.

Accelerate Your APIs by Using the HAProxy Cache

The age of rendering most of a web page’s contents on the server and then delivering it as a colossal HTML file is fading into the past. Modern web frameworks like Angular, React, and Vue push towards creating components instead—individual elements on the page that fetch their data in the background and poll for asynchronous updates—which can be reused across your site.