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As enterprises grapple with the evolving landscape of security threats, the need to safeguard internal networks from the broader internet is increasingly important. In environments with restricted internet access, it can be difficult to manage software updates in an easy, reliable way. When managing devices in the field, change management and compliance policies can introduce even more complexity to the update process. You can solve these challenges using snaps and the Snap Store Proxy.

“Are your customers, partners and employees complaining about how slow your applications are running?" If you are not worried about the answer to this question, stop reading now.

The border between the management of telecommunications networks and the services that they support and the management of IT infrastructures and the applications that they support has always been a porous one. One might say that they are like two dialects of the same language rather than different languages. Nonetheless, these areas, whether characterised by technology or practice, are different and have, for the most part, been served by different vendors and products.

As we’ve talked about before, our app is a monolith: all our backend code lives together and gets compiled into a single binary. One of the reasons I prefer monolithic architectures is that they make it much easier to focus on shipping features without having to spend much time thinking about where code should live and how to get all the data you need together quickly. However, I’m not going to claim there aren’t disadvantages too. One of those is compile times.

$575 million was the cost of a huge IT incident that hit Equifax, one of the largest credit reporting agencies in the U.S. In September 2017, Equifax announced a data breach that impacted approximately 147 million consumers. The breach occurred due to a vulnerability in the Apache Struts web application framework, which Equifax failed to patch in time. This vulnerability allowed hackers to access the company's systems and exfiltrate sensitive data. ‍

SQL Monitor is an essential tool for DBA teams worldwide, providing real-time monitoring of SQL Server and PostgreSQL performance. With SQL Monitor, you can easily track deployments, errors, and other events on the timeline. This feature, called annotations, allows you to quickly identify the root cause of performance issues and take corrective action. SQL Monitor’s timeline is a powerful tool that helps you stay on top of your database performance and keep your systems running smoothly.

Step Function added support for testing individual states . Which lets you execute individual states with the following: And returns the following: With the TestState API, you can thoroughly test every state and achieve close to 100% coverage of a state machine. So, does this eliminate the need for Step Functions Local ? Can we do away with end-to-end tests as well? If not, where should this new API fit into your workflow, and how should you use it?

It is essential to configure log rotation for Docker containers. Log rotation is not performed by default, and if it’s not configured, logs on the Docker host can build up and eat up disk space. This guide will teach us how to set up Docker log rotation. Logs are an essential piece of telemetry data. Logs can be used to debug performance issues in applications.

You might be thinking “building HTTP API docs from scratch? in 2024? wtf?”, and you’re probably right. After all redoc has been around since 2016, and there are hundreds of “generate beautiful documentation from your OpenAPI spec” startups around, some even use AI now. To be honest, I didn’t even know it was possible to do-it-yourself when I started looking into it.