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Papertrail + Python Logging = Super Powers

Design applications to be modular. It’s a software design best practice. Modular programming is writing multiple independent programs that perform a single function but work together to achieve an overarching outcome. The benefit to this design is the smaller parts can be easily created and tested. New functionality can be slipped into the larger whole without interfering with other functions.

Logging + Trace: love at first insight

Meet Stackdriver Logging, a gregarious individual who loves large-scale data and is openly friendly to structured and unstructured data alike. Although they grew up at Google, Stackdriver Logging welcomes data from any cloud or even on-prem. Logging has many close friends, including Monitoring, BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Storage and all the other Google Cloud services that integrate with them. However, recently, they are looking for a deeper relationship to find insight.

Is it a good time(stamp) for centralized logging?

With almost all deployed software systems consisting of multiple moving parts, it’s hard to find arguments against centralized aggregation of log entries. Deployment technologies like lightweight virtualization, Kubernetes, and serverless computing tend to spread out the components of a system across a large number of runtime primitives. Gaining visibility into the state and history of such systems is as important as ever but can also be more difficult than ever.

Dormakaba Group leverages Logz.io to visualize and resolve production issues faster.

As the team responsible for building the first cloud access control solution, Exivo, the Cloud Development team at Dormakaba EMEA needed a logging solution that could scale throughout their global environment, handle a tremendous amount of throughput, integrate with their API, and remain extremely secure. Logz.io was the perfect fit for these requirements. Watch our latest Customer Perspective to learn how they leverage Logz.io to visualize and resolve production issues faster.

Elastic partners with DDC to offer free election security to 2020 campaigns

We are excited to announce that Elastic will offer free, monitored Elastic Endpoint Security to the 2020 US presidential and congressional campaigns in partnership with Defending Digital Campaigns. Defending Digital Campaigns (DDC) is a non-partisan organization that provides low- and no-cost security products and services to federal campaigns to help defend them from cyberattacks and election interference.

Introducing Splunk App for Quorum

It is imperative for organizations to monitor performance, security and stability of their blockchain integrations. Splunk makes it easy to achieve this observability, not just with blockchain but with all enterprise infrastructure. Our customers have told us this is simply a necessity for getting to production and also makes application development faster. Based on Ethereum, Quorum is an open source blockchain platform built for business and backed by strong partnerships such as J.P.