If you’re just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you’ve probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in the day-to-day life of an SRE but may seem foreign to outsiders. So, what are the differences between these abbreviations? Well, one of […]
0 CommentsYou can migrate any workload from an on-premises environment to AWS. The key to a successful migration to AWS is a well-thought-out plan, informative tools, prior migration experience, and a quality implementation. Every step along the way, you can use AWS’s years of experience to build your organizational, operational, and technical capabilities so that you […]
0 CommentsCheckmarx, a provider of a platform for testing application security, this week disclosed it has discovered a malicious instance of a PyPi repository for Python code that has been downloaded more than 70,000 times. Tzachi Zorenshtain, head of supply chain security, said this discovery represents another instance where cybercriminals have made available a malicious copy […]
0 CommentsWe’re living in the age of accelerated consumption and delivery. You can get a seemingly infinite selection of products delivered to your door within two days, for free, from thousands of miles away. You can access an endless variety of services online within mere seconds: Movies, music, games, education and even health care. These modern […]
0 CommentsAs an IT professional with decades of experience at every level of technology and organizations—from cell phone prototyping to banking enterprise architecture, from entry-level to CTO—I can state definitively that I have spent an inordinate amount of time dwelling on and dealing with security. And I know I’m not alone. This is a common theme. […]
0 CommentsEncore has made generally available a namesake backend development engine for rapidly building scalable distributed IT environments across multiple cloud platforms. Fresh off raising $3 million in seed funding, Encore CEO André Eriksson said the Encore platform analyzes source code to eliminate the need to manually configure, connect and set up portable cloud computing environments. […]
0 CommentsThe extent to which software supply chains may be compromised in the wake of a security breach disclosed by GitHub may include thousands of organizations. GitHub has revealed that unauthorized parties compromised OAuth user tokens maintained by Heroku, an arm of Salesforce that provides a platform-as-a-service (PaaS) environment, and Travis CI, a provider of a […]
0 CommentsI’m an engineer, not a security professional. I’ve worked at several startups over the years and have discovered ways to shift my engineering mindset to include a security focus and to incorporate security into my coding practice. I’ve found that when you work with others, an engineering organization can significantly contribute to API security. But […]
0 CommentsQuali has added a control plane to its Torque platform to give DevOps teams the ability to consistently provision and orchestrate infrastructure across a heterogeneous distributed computing environment. Amir Rosenberg, vice president of product for Quali, said the control plane allows DevOps team to centrally manage the provisioning of infrastructure via reusable blueprints accessed via […]
0 CommentsThe interest in Web3 is heating up. We’ve seen major excitement around blockchain and new Web3 protocols that are poised to reinvent the web as we know it. But it’s hard to hide the skepticism and the suspicion that there are ulterior motives behind large cryptocurrency coin fundraisers. There’s no doubt that there are benefits […]
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