Data disasters are practically inevitable, but a planned out backup strategy can combat their damaging effects. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) of the U.S. government is a major organization that recommends sticking to a 3-2-1 backup strategy. Follow the 3-2-1 backup rule to ensure that your data is kept safe.
The demand for cloud services is rising. Databases have been popular tools for a long time. However, the landscape is changing, with cloud databases becoming increasingly popular.
InfluxDB has over a dozen different client libraries to help developers work with time series data in whatever programming language they like best. The Python client library is one of our most popular options. It’s simple to learn, and working with InfluxDB in a language you’re comfortable with helps you get started doing powerful time series analysis quickly.
This is the second post in a 2 part blog series on debugging, monitoring and tracing NodeJS Lambda applications. If you haven’t yet seen part 1, check it out here (it’s a great read!) Now let’s get back into our post with one of the most commonly experienced issues when it comes to Lambda functions, Cold Starts.
MongoDB is one of the most popular NoSQL databases in the world, used by millions of developers to store application metrics from e-commerce transactions to user logins. The MongoDB Enterprise plugin for Grafana — which is available for users with a Grafana Cloud account or with a Grafana Enterprise license — unlocks all of the data stored in MongoDB as well as diagnostic metrics for monitoring MongoDB itself for visualization, exploration, and alerting.
Recently, I was talking to Catchpoint’s High School Summer Interns about what software engineering is all about. They’re spending a week at a time with various Catchpoint departments, and last week was with the Catchpoint Technology Group.
How do you pass context from events that concern Security teams to Development teams who can make changes and address those events? Often this involves a series of meetings and discussion that can take days or weeks to filter down from security event to developer awareness. Compounding the problem, developers generally do not have access to Splunk Core, Cloud or Enterprise indexes used by security teams, and indeed, may use only Splunk Observability for their metrics, traces and even logs.
In previous articles in our Intro to the CLI series, we’ve gone over why to master using the command line, some command line basics and tools, and tips for customizing your CLI shell. In case you missed any, feel free to catch up using the links below. And now, you’re going to learn the basics of shell scripting to automate complex jobs and build entirely new applications!
