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The use of serverless computing has become a must nowadays, and some of you may already know a thing or two about Amazon Web Services like Lambda Functions, Step Functions, and other services AWS provides. However, if this is the first time you hear about them – fantastic! In this article, we’ll discuss AWS Step Functions, what they are used for, how to use them, and the advantages or disadvantages that they bring.

One thing that all organizations of any size need to realize is that data breaches only occur when there are not sufficient breach detection tools in place. Simply having a data loss prevention system does nothing unless you are actively using it to identify and stop a data breach from occurring. This is not to say that even with the best secure data solutions that your data is not at risk. Hackers are constantly evolving and adapting their methods, so you should never rest on your laurels.

SSO is often accomplished by using Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP). While LDAP has a variety of use cases, in this post, I’ll focus on authentication — specifically, how to use LDAP authentication for single-sign on (SSO) with Sensu Go. First off, a quick overview of Sensu authentication.

Whether you’re using InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB OSS, the InfluxDB API provides a simple way to interact with your InfluxDB instance. The InfluxDB v2 API offers a unified approach to querying, writing data to, and assessing the health of your InfluxDB instances. In today’s Tech Tips post, we’re learning about how to create and list buckets. Buckets are named locations in InfluxDB where time series data is written to.

Whether you’re using InfluxDB Cloud or InfluxDB OSS, the InfluxDB API provides a simple way to interact with your InfluxDB instance. The InfluxDB v2 API, the read and write portions are available with InfluxDB v1.8+, offers a unified approach to querying, writing data to, and assessing the health of your InfluxDB instances. In today’s Tech Tips post, we learn how to create and list authentication tokens. Tokens provide secure data flow between an InfluxDB instance and its users.

A few days ago, I tried ordering lunch from a local restaurant. I went online, spent time looking at their menu, chose a few items, clicked “submit” and… got an error message. This experience is not unique. Earlier this week, when I tried to read the news, I got a message saying they’re experiencing a technical issue. You can see both messages below: We’ve all experienced such situations, and they can be very frustrating.

Datadog has a long-standing commitment to open standards. Our integrations with OpenMetrics, JMX, and WMI, as well as our implementation of the tried-and-true StatsD protocol, enable you to collect data with the tools and libraries that fit best into your workflows.

Most of us can think of a time when we received a phishing email. In fact, most phishing emails are easy to identify, and automatically go to spam. However, in this ongoing pandemic, hackers are adopting advanced tactics that cleverly conceal their malicious intentions, and fly under the radar by leveraging the victim’s fear, anxiety, or plain negligence.

Everyone knows that web performance is everything for a quality user experience. Web performance affects conversion rates because users quickly form opinions based on a website’s or app’s responsiveness. In this article, we explore the importance of performance to your web application throughout the entire user journey, how to examine your web application performance results, and how to set up your web application monitoring to alert based on performance.

Using open source code makes it easier to build applications, but the freely available nature of open source code introduces the risk of pulling potential security vulnerabilities into your environment. Knowing whether or not customers are actually accessing the vulnerable parts of your application is key to triaging security threats without spending hours fixing an issue that doesn’t affect end users.