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Best Planning Tools for Students

Whether you’re a freshman just getting started in student life, or a senior preparing to enter the workforce in a few months, it’s never too early to begin honing your time-management skills. Trust us, as a team who frequently hires new software developers right out of school, having a foundational understanding of project management can go a long way.

Using Machine Learning for Root Cause Analysis

From a security breach to a complete system outage, when an incident occurs and your network or service is impacted, it’s typically the result of a chain of events. A problem with one service has impacted another service, and so on until finally, you’re facing a problem that’s compromising availability and damaging your customer experience. In the event of a serious incident, your team’s immediate response is to focus on identifying the root cause and restoring service.

Find Where N+1 Database Queries Affect Your Application

One of the Scout’s key features is its ability to quickly highlight N+1 queries in your application that you might not have been aware of, and then show you the exact line of code that you need to look at in order to fix it. In this video, we will use a Ruby on Rails application as an example, but the same concepts apply to other popular web frameworks.

Is That Bot Really Googlebot? Detecting Fake Crawlers with HAProxy Enterprise

Detect and stop fake web crawlers using HAProxy Enterprise’s Verify Crawler add-on. How your website ranks on Google can have a substantial impact on the number of visitors you receive, which can ultimately make or break the success of your online business. To keep search results fresh, Google and other search engines deploy programs called web crawlers that scan and index the Internet at a regular interval, registering new and updated content.

An Introduction to Kubernetes and Its Uses

It's easy to get lost in today's continuously changing landscape of cloud native technologies. The learning curve from a beginner's perspective is quite steep, and without proper context it becomes increasingly difficult to sift through all the buzzwords. If you have been developing software, chances are you may have heard of Kubernetes by now. Before we jump into what Kubernetes is, it's essential to familiarize ourselves with containerization and how it came about.

What is Docker Monitoring?

We have come a long way in the world of computing. From having computers that fill up entire rooms or buildings while performing relatively basic actions to having complex machines that literally fit in our pockets and palms, this advancement has been nothing short of breathless. With an emphasis placed on speed and efficiency, computers and the applications running on these computers have been tailored to ensure optimal use of resources, be these resources hardware or software resources.

Three Ways Agencies Can Improve Cloud Security and Performance

The Federal Cloud Computing Strategy (FCCS) makes it clear government agencies have significant responsibilities for protecting cloud-hosted data. The FCCS states the need for agencies to develop their own governance models and create service level agreements to ensure they’ll have continuous access to log data and prompt notification from their cloud service provider if there’s a breach.

Enriching data with GeoIPs from internal, private IP addresses

For public IPs, it is possible to create tables that will specify which city specific ranges of IPs belong to. However, a big portion of the internet is different. There are company private networks with IP addresses of the form 10.0.0.0/8, 172.16.0.0/12 or 192.168.0.0/16 scattered in every country in the world. These IP addresses tend to have no real information for the geographic locations.

Correlation Analysis: A Natural Next Step for Anomaly Detection

Over the last decade, data collection has become a commodity. Consequently, there has been a tremendous deluge of data in every area of industry. This trend is captured by recent research, which points to growing volume of raw data and growth of market segments fueled by that data growth.