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Monitor Salesforce's Real-Time Events with Splunk

In 2019 Salesforce announced the general availability of Real-Time Event Monitoring (RTEM) which includes 19 different events that help monitor & secure your Salesforce data. Real-Time Event Monitoring stores events for 6 months as Salesforce Big Objects and streams events via Salesforce’s Streaming API in near real-time.

Simpler Navigation in AppSignal: A Story About Refactoring Design

AppSignal users will immediately notice that we’ve updated our product navigation. The new navigation is simpler, cleaner, and improves usability for (power) users. Let’s dive into these changes, along with some background on our philosophy of designing for developers.

Embedded systems: the advent of the Internet of Things - Part II

This is the second part of the two-part blog series covering embedded Linux systems and the challenges brought about by the proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In Part I, we surveyed the embedded ecosystem and the role Linux plays within that space. This blog takes you on the next step in the journey, where we explore the most demanding challenges facing manufacturers of tightly embedded IoT devices.

How to deploy multiple EC2 instances in one go using Terraform

Infrastructure as Code tools like Terraform provides greater support for automation, especially when dealing with multiple resources in a complex cloud infrastructure. In this blog, learn how Terraform can make your life simple by launching multiple instances in one-go. If you are new to Amazon AWS and need to create or launch multiple resources in one go, then nothing is better than using Terraform count. The Terraform count argument allows you to launch as many resources as you wish, of the same kind.

What You Can Learn About Cyber Security from the Biggest Breaches in History

It feels like cybersecurity is dominating the newsfeeds, doesn’t it? There is a reason. Cyberattacks and cybercrime have risen dramatically in the last five years. 2020 broke all records in terms of data loss and the number of cyberattacks. Between 2019 and 2020 ransomware attacks alone rose by 62%, the same year that the World Economic Forum identified cyberattacks and data theft as two of the biggest risks to the global economy.

A Developer focused CI/CD pipeline for Kubernetes

As Kubernetes becomes the key target environment across many organizations, it automatically becomes an essential topic for developers. However, Kubernetes was created for operations and, unless you spend a considerable amount of time learning and specializing yourself, it is still challenging to use. Developers should rather focus on delivering applications instead, and a developer or application-focused platform is needed to enable that.

How to Protect Against Ransomware Attacks

Business leaders today are being pushed toward the rapid adoption of technology, especially in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic – so much so that the term ‘digital transformation’ became a major trend. While tech is vital to the success of forward-thinking companies, many investments made in the name of digital transformation are revealed to be purchases that were “technology for the sake of technology”.

Continuous integration for .NET applications

.NET is a popular open source, cross-platform development framework for building fast and scalable full-stack applications for the web, desktop, mobile, and the cloud. This flexibility makes.NET a leading platform for developing enterprise web applications and makes.NET development one of the most in-demand skills on the market.