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Using authentication decorators in Flask

Has your team worked on an API and wanted (somehow) to implement more powerful security features? If you are dissatisfied with the level of security in an API, there are solutions for improving it! In this tutorial, I will lead you through the process of creating API endpoints that are secured with authentication tokens. Using these endpoints, we will be able to make requests to the Flask API only for authenticated users.

Load Balance an Infinite Number of Servers And Never Reload HAProxy

Every load balancer you’ll find on the market must deliver performance, reliability, scalability, and security, and do it better than its competitors. Each must solve complex programming challenges that address those needs—choices that will affect the direction of the project for years to come. HAProxy is no different. When evaluating whether you should choose HAProxy or something else, it helps to know how project contributors answered the big, architectural questions.

Introducing Datadog Application Security

Securing modern-day production systems is expensive and complex. Teams often need to implement extensive measures, such as secure coding practices, security testing, periodic vulnerability scans and penetration tests, and protections at the network edge. Even when organizations have the resources to deploy these solutions, they still struggle to keep pace with software teams, especially as they accelerate their release cycles and migrate to distributed systems and microservices.

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What is MTTR? Resolve incidents faster through ops, alerting and documentation

When downtime strikes any distributed software deployment or platform, it's all hands on deck until the lights are green and service is restored. This process, from the recognition of a problem to a deployed solution, has most commonly been defined as MTTR - mean time to resolution. In just the last few years, DevOps and site reliability (SRE) professionals have developed sophisticated new models for how they work and audit their successes. In 2022, MTTR is one of the most widely-used software performance success metrics.

SRE: How the role is evolving

The growth of site reliability engineering (SRE) has demonstrated the need for SRE implementations is here to stay for the foreseeable future. LinkedIn voted SRE jobs as the second most promising positions in the US in 2019, and now as we head into 2022, you can be sure to see the evolution of SRE continue to grow and expand. Below, we’ll get into what SRE is, what SRE engineers do, and how SRE will continue to evolve into the future.

The Question Isn't Whether You're Overspending in the Cloud, It's by How Much

Everyone is doing it. No, I am not talking about the latest Tik Tok challenge… The thing that everybody is doing—every company, that is—is that they are spending more money in the cloud than they need to. In fact, 82% of respondents in our own recent survey admitted that their organizations have incurred unnecessary cloud costs.

Now You can Invoke PagerDuty Rundeck Actions Within the PagerDuty Slack Integration

Last year, we released PagerDuty Rundeck Actions, a PagerDuty add-on product that connects responders to automated diagnostics and remediation for common problems directly in the PagerDuty incident response workflow. After working with our customers and listening to the community, we are excited to announce that PagerDuty Rundeck Actions now integrates with PagerDuty’s Slack integration.

Design Considerations for Software Distribution to Edge & IoT Applications

Make no mistake: You can’t overlook software distribution in DevOps. At risk are the reliability, security and speed of your software releases — and your business itself. This is especially true in enterprises that are releasing across numerous edge endpoints or IoT devices. As your releases’ cadence and payload grow, software distribution challenges multiply, particularly at the edge.