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Investing in Netdata: a growth story

I’m excited to announce an extension to Netdata’s series A funding in the amount of $14.2M, bringing the total amount of funding to $31M. We’re thrilled to share the news; the additional funding will help us continue building the future of health monitoring and performance troubleshooting. In case you missed it, our mission is to redefine infrastructure monitoring. Our unique approach to building the right solution with and for the community is no easy task.

Get Started with Kubernetes

Brief introduction to understanding Kubernetes basics Kubernetes is a broad platform that consists of more than a dozen different tools and components. Among the most important are: If you use Kubernetes to manage containers, this will require a container runtime, which is the software that runs individual containers. Kubernetes supports a number of container runtimes; the most popular are Docker, containerd, and cri-o.

NoSQL databases: what is MongoDB and its use cases?

Databases like MongoDB, a NoSQL document database, are commonly used in environments where flexibility is required with big, unstructured data with ever-changing schemas. This post explains what a NoSQL database is, and provides an overview of MongoDB, its use cases and a solution for running an open source MongoDB database at scale.

CVE-2020-15598: HAProxy Enterprise Unaffected Due to ModSecurity Hardening Measures!

The OWASP ModSecurity Core Rule Set team has reported a Denial of Service vulnerability in ModSecurity version 3.x that allows an attacker to send a crafted payload that exploits a flaw in how regular expressions are matched within the software. A CVE (CVE-2020-15598) was assigned to this vulnerability and it has been rated with a CVSSv3 score of 7.5 (high).

Automating incident response with Relay and PagerDuty

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in resolving incidents. The latest integration between Relay and PagerDuty eliminates the “digital duct tape” by creating reusable, event-driven workflows to close the loop on incidents faster through Relay’s event-based automation approach.

DevOps Automation Best Practices for Automotive Software Delivery

Some cars today boast more than 300M lines of code! Software has become a key differentiator and influencer on consumers’ buying decisions - with many choosing vehicles as much for their infotainment system and “all that tech” as for the horsepower. DevOps for software embedded in vehicles is not trivial. The automotive industry faces unique challenges when it comes to delivering software -- due to complex testing matrix and deployment processes, and its strict safety, regulation and compliance rules.

How to Reduce MTTR with PagerDuty and Relay

DevOps and SRE teams are under intense pressure to reduce the Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR) in resolving incidents. With the proliferation of cloud services and the increasing complexity of DevOps toolchains, engineers today need to not only learn how to use these services but also troubleshoot them when an incident is raised at 2 AM. Incident response is still manual today – cobbling together runbooks and ad hoc scripts and orchestrating people to respond.