When we launched AppDynamics with Cisco Secure Application in early 2021, it was the industry’s first integrated application performance management (APM) and runtime application security offering. We made a bold bet that consolidated monitoring would become increasingly important and provide significant benefits such as improved security capabilities and reduced costs. It was the right bet.

Over the past several years, I've helped numerous customers migrate SQL Server workloads to Azure SQL, including Azure SQL Database, Azure SQL Managed Instance, and Azure SQL Virtual Machines. In this article, I'll explain some of the challenges of optimizing the compute cost for an Azure SQL Database deployment and review how the serverless compute tier can greatly simplify it.

With the proliferation of security SaaS platforms, such as Cloudflare, Proofpoint, and PingOne, enterprises must figure out how to integrate third-party data shipped over the internet into their analytics and SIEM platforms. This requirement to integrate third-party data raises a host of security, infrastructure, and data quality questions. Enterprises can lower risk, and complete projects faster, by using Cribl LogStream Cloud to solve their challenges in managing third-party SaaS platform data.

JFrog’s Security Research team recently disclosed an RCE (remote code execution) issue in Apache Cassandra, which has been assigned to CVE-2021-44521 (CVSS 8.4). This Apache security vulnerability is easy to exploit and has the potential to wreak havoc on systems, but luckily only manifests in non-default configurations of Cassandra.

2021’s slew of Internet outages or disruptions show how connected and relatively fragile the Internet ecosystem is. Case in point: December’s trifecta of Amazon Web Services (AWS) outages, which really brought home the fact that no service is too big to fail: The reality is, the next outage is not if, but when, where, and for how long. Pretending they don’t exist or won’t happen is not only pointless but harmful to your business.

AWS resource tagging is fundamental for effective cloud cost management. By creating and allocating cost-related tags in AWS, you can organize and manage your resources according to keys and values that make sense to you. This helps you better understand your cloud costs and manage your spending. But proper tagging isn't easy. While AWS provides several useful resources, you may still run into some issues that require more involved solutions.

2022, the world is the technological paradise you always dreamed of. Space mining, smart cities, 3D printers to make your own Darth Vader mask… Just a little problem, society is based on digitization and communications and you have no idea about the visibility of distributed networks. Something of vital importance considering the rise of cybercrime. Well, don’t worry, we’ll help you.

Digital transformation is causing the IT ecosphere to evolve, and the evolution is being accelerated by competitive necessity. Enterprises are using digital technology to increase revenue and lower costs. Failure to compete effectively will have devastating consequences. Digital transformation requires that IT evolve from a cost center to a value creator. FinOps and DevOps are processes that include the entire enterprise in value creation.

At the time of writing this post, I have officially been at Honeycomb for one year as a site reliability engineer (SRE). I had shared my initial experiences and impressions in this post and thought it would make sense to check back in now that I’ve had the opportunity to spend time learning about the team, the culture, and the code base more in depth.

Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) is one of the core services of AWS, designed to help users reduce the cost of acquiring and reserving hardware. EC2 represents the compute infrastructure of Amazon’s cloud service offerings, providing organizations a customizable selection of processors, storage, networking, operating systems, and purchasing models.