WaKED-CO (Watch of Knowledge on Emergent Diseases COVID-19) is an initiative launched in record time — deployed just a month after developing a prototype — under the leadership of the health service within the Ministry of Armed Forces in France. The project had one core mission: to make it easier to research the literature around the COVID-19 crisis.
Serverless provides benefits far beyond the ease of management…it strongly encourages “useful” engineering practices. Here’s how. It’s hard to determine what can be considered a “good” or “bad” engineering practice. We often hear about best practices, but everything really boils down to a specific use case. Therefore, I deliberately chose the word “useful” rather than “good” in the title.
In my previous Link Analysis blogs, "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 1 - Data Reduction" and "Visual Link Analysis with Splunk: Part 2 - The Visual Part," I used techniques that work well when we have a controlled data set. However, as we know, real data can be messy. When analyzing links in fraud data, the data can be very noisy. Let’s say we want to use IP addresses for link analysis in the Splunk platform. It is not unusual for two people to share an IP address.
Among the many topics that a tech founder CEO can write about in a blog, I always feel that fundraising announcements are the least glorious especially when compared to announcing great achievements such as business growth, new products, or meaningful partnerships. However, funding is a moment when others take notice, it’s a major milestone for the team and an acknowledgement from the market that what we’re building is needed and in-demand.
