DevSecOps 2.0
You’re doing DevSecOps, and that’s a good thing. But have you taken it to the next level yet? Are you doing DevSecOps 2.0? In this post, ..
Tuning Your ELB for Optimal Performance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) first introduced Elastic Load Balancing (ELB) in May of 2009. The objective of the service was to provide a method ..
Using AWS Config Rules to Manage Resource Tag Compliance
Amazon Web Services (AWS) introduced AWS Config in 2014 to help users of their services track changes to the configuration of EC2 instances ..
Common AWS Security Threats and How to Mitigate Them
AWS security best practices are crucial in an age when AWS dominates the cloud computing market. Although moving workloads to the cloud ..
Configuring Your ELB Health Check For Better Health Monitoring
Configuring health checks for the AWS Elastic Load Balancer (ELB) is an important step to ensure that your cloud applications run smoothly. ..
Graphite Monitoring for Windows Performance Metrics
For several years now, the tool of choice for collecting performance metrics in a Linux environment has been Graphite. While it is true ..
The History of Monitoring Tools
How have monitoring tools evolved over the years? That’s a big question, and one that few people are capable of answering based on personal ..
How Log Analysis Has Evolved
One way of assessing just how much IT trends have changed over the past several decades is to look at how log analysis tools and processes ..
DevSecOps and Log Analysis: Improving Application Security
As time goes on, more and more organizations are abandoning the outdated waterfall development methodology for more practical and efficient ..
What is Blockchain, Anyway? And What Are the Biggest Use Cases?
Everyone’s talking about blockchain these days. In fact, there is so much hype about blockchains — and there are so many grand ideas ..
Apache Log Analysis with Sumo Logic
The Apache HTTP Server has been a dominant web server since it burst onto the scene in the mid-1990s. If you’re reading this article, ..
Resolving Issues with Your Application Using IIS Logs
If you are like most software developers, your code often doesn’t work the first time you write and test it—and a good portion of your ..
Biggest AWS Security Breaches of 2017
Early on, one of the most common reasons cited for not taking advantage of public cloud computing was security concerns. In general, that ..
Best Practices for AWS Config
AWS Config was introduced by Amazon Web Services in 2014 as an auditing tool to help consumers of AWS resources actively track and monitor ..
AWS Security Best Practices: Log Management
AWS is the leading cloud vendor today, with one out of three companies that operate in the cloud using its services. It’s a safe bet that ..
Kubernetes vs. Docker: What Does It Really Mean?
“Kubernetes vs. Docker” is a phrase that you hear more and more these days as Kubernetes becomes ever more popular as a container orchestration ..
Kubernetes Security Best Practices
Kubernetes is more popular than ever. As a result, securing Kubernetes clusters is now more important than ever. This is not necessarily ..
Kubernetes Logging Overview
Kubernetes is gaining adoption at every type of organization, and has become the leading container orchestration tool. And although Kubernetes ..
AWS ELB vs. NGINX Load Balancer
When building a new application or microservice on AWS, there are several options for handling load balancing in front of the application. ..
Using Containers to Mitigate DDoS Attacks
Containers can be an excellent mechanism for mitigating Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks. However, discussions around the subject ..