Using LogStream to help with #Log4Shell detection, enrichment, and incident response.

Relive the joys of IT Festivus! Celebrate the most magical holiday of all — the one where we finally get the chance to air IT grievances, boast feats of IT strength, AND win some extremely cool prizes. All in the company of your favorite experts and peers!

On December 9, 2021, a researcher from the Alibaba Cloud Security Team dropped a zero-day remote code execution exploit on Twitter, targeting the extremely popular log4j logging framework for Java. Since then, the trivially exploitable (weaponized PoCs are available publicly) and extremely popular library has reportedly been massively exploited and has gotten wide coverage on media and social networks.

DO YOU NEED TO CONTINUOUSLY PUBLISH AND DISTRIBUTE YOUR SOFTWARE TO SHARE WITH: Then you know what a hassle it can be -- with network bottlenecks, security overhead, and operational challenges managing distribution infrastructure at scale slowing down your releases.

Jason Flint, Senior Manager of Facilities and Crisis Response at PagerDuty joins the stream to chat about how PagerDuty the company uses PagerDuty the platform to meet the needs of an increasingly distributed workforce. His team keeps track of everything from extreme weather events to political unrest that might impact PagerDuty employees.

Learn from Dave Mangot, author, speaker, and consultant, about moving to SaaS from On-Prem in the premiere episode of “Mooving To…” This new series with Thom Duran, Director of SRE at Moogsoft talks about the latest tools, tips, and real-world experiences from top engineers and developers. Moving to SaaS definitely has its advantages, and it’s something Dave has been through several times.

Open Source projects are at the heart of most software that we depend on everyday. Community-supported volunteers work behind the scenes to make open source better for everyone, but it can be a thankless—and penny-pinching—job. Is it sustainable? Join us in a live virtual event with GitHub Sponsors to find out. We’ll showcase leading maintainers in the community and discuss the future of open source sustainability.

Cost analysis and allocation tools like CloudHealth, CloudCheckr, and Cloudability play an important role in many organizations’ FinOps journeys by assisting with keeping Finance informed, enabling forecasting, and driving accountability. These tools may also help provide visibility and direction around long-term purchases like Savings Plans and RIs. But, slicing and dicing your cloud costs is only the tip of the FinOps iceberg: 85%+ of your cloud savings potential lies beyond refining how you buy cloud services. You also need to optimize what you’re actually purchasing.

What do you get when you put a CEO, CTO, and two industry leading experts on a call together? Insights. Retail has been struggling mightily to overcome many challenges in consumer behaviors, supply chains, and inflation. Technology is helping overcome these challenges and provide solutions that benefit the customer.

A Kubernetes sig cluster-api provider for Civo built during the Civo hackathon 2021. This lets you manage your Civo clusters decoratively along side your other Kubernetes clusters simply using `kubectl apply -f myCluster.yaml`