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Build a CIS hardened Ubuntu Pro server image on the AWS Console

Learn how to elevate the security of your Ubuntu servers by creating a CIS-hardened Ubuntu Pro AMI using only the AWS web console. Join Canonical Public Cloud Alliance Director Carlos Bravo in this step-by-step tutorial as he walks through the hardening process utilizing the Ubuntu Security Guide (USG) tool to ensure your system's security aligns with industry standards including CIS and DISA-STIG.

Intro to Speedscale

Speedscale is a Y-Combinator backed startup that helps Kubernetes engineering teams build resilient and performant containerized apps. Our production traffic replication platform is a more reliable, cost-effective, and scalable way to test and deliver cloud-native software applications. Unlike other tools, we use agents/sidecars to record and playback sanitized traffic that you see in prod. With Speedscale, engineers can generate load, simulate production conditions, and mock third party backends modeled after real traffic patterns.

Image recognition with Python, OpenCV, OpenAI CLIP and pgvector

In this video you’ll learn how to build an offline face recognition pipeline to find faces on top of complex pictures. The full written explanation is available in the dedicated article The pipeline will use: Python and OpenCV to detect faces within complex pictures Python and an OpenAI CLIP model to calculate the face embeddings PostgreSQL and the pgvector extension to store the embeddings and calculate distance across them.

Building a Forge app in Bitbucket Cloud | Atlassian

Atlassian’s product extensibility framework, Forge, enables customers to extend the native capabilities of Atlassian products, like Bitbucket Cloud, to perfectly meet the needs of their unique organisation. Using Forge, software teams can use the skills they already possess to enhance the native functionality of Bitbucket Cloud to create the perfect DevOps tools for their needs.

OpenTelemetry Webinar: What is the OpenTelemetry API

The next in our series on OpenTelemetry fundamentals, this video is all about the #opentelemetry API, a part of the larger #cncf project to bring open standards to telemetry measuring, monitoring, and reporting. More about SigNoz: SigNoz - Monitor your applications and troubleshoot problems in your deployed applications, an open-source alternative to DataDog, New Relic, etc. Backed by Y Combinator.

Webinar: Still using spreadsheets to track your services? You need a developer portal.

Back by popular demand, Ganesh Datta will cover Developer Portals and why users look to Cortex for running efficient engineering teams. Developer portals have become increasingly important to run an efficient engineering team especially as the number of services or engineers scale. Learn more about why companies adopt developer portals, how to maximize their impact, and how they can help your team reduce the organizational complexity that comes with running a service oriented architecture.

Webinar: Best Practices for Measuring and Growing Developer Productivity

Knowing how productive your development team is is essential to planning your software delivery timeline and releasing high-quality software to the end-user. However, there exist several misconceptions about what developer productivity is and how it can be increased. Developer productivity is not a single metric you can measure, like the number of pull requests each developer in the team is making in a given development time. Instead, it comprises a variety of interconnected aspects that can be measured by different metrics and improved over time.