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Removing the Bastion Host and Improving the Security in AWS

This article covers the security in AWS and overcoming the classic SSH/RDP jump with a better alternative for all OS.

Updated July 22, 2021

by Miguel Angel Chuecos Piera

· 11,261 Views · 11 Likes

Optimizing Prometheus and Grafana with the Prometheus Operator

Let's discuss cluster monitoring fundamentals and how we can use Prometheus Operator to deploy Prometheus and Grafana to monitor a Kubernetes cluster.

July 20, 2021

by Kevin Taylor

· 5,879 Views · 3 Likes

AWS Data Pipeline vs Glue vs Lambda: Who Is a Clear Winner?

In this article, you will see a comparison between AWS Data Pipeline, Glue and Lambda

July 17, 2021

by Alex Jordan

· 26,555 Views · 2 Likes

Creating an AWS EKS Cluster and Providing Access to Developer

Create an AWS EKS Cluster and give logging/debugging access to the developer's EC2 who does not have access in AWS Console or are not added as an IAM user.

July 16, 2021

by Vikas Agrawal

· 10,324 Views · 3 Likes

How Did I Process Half a Million Transactions in AWS Lambda Within Minutes?

In this article, I’ll walk you through the architecture of processing big records files within AWS services.

July 16, 2021

by Mohamed Latfalla

· 15,139 Views · 9 Likes

The Ultimate Guide to Amazon RDS Database Notifications

This article is about an interesting feature of AWS RDS, which is Event Notifications.

July 15, 2021

by Vasanth Kumar Makam

· 7,780 Views · 3 Likes

4 Key Observability Metrics for Distributed Applications

What to watch with your cloud applications- in this post, we'll cover areas your metrics should focus on to ensure you're not missing key insights.

July 12, 2021

by Michael Bogan

CORE

· 12,276 Views · 2 Likes

Confused by AWS Storage Options? S3, EBS, EFS Explained

It's easy to muddle over the specifics of AWS' storage options. So here, we cover AWS S3, EBS, and EFS to see when to use which one.

Updated July 11, 2021

by Gilad David Maayan

CORE

· 273,316 Views · 28 Likes

EC2 Instance Types: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

Let's explore EC2 instance types and choose ones that offer the best price-performance combo. Let's discuss the best practices for AWS cost optimization.

July 1, 2021

by Vito Clover

· 7,695 Views · 3 Likes

Schedule Pipelines in Azure DevOps Using Cron Expressions

This article helps you with an easy way to trigger pipelines using Cron Expression or Jobs in Azure DevOps. A step-by-step tutorial is helpful for beginners.

June 30, 2021

by Ganesh Hegde

CORE

· 28,332 Views · 1 Like

How to Setup MuleSoft Runtime Fabric on Self-Managed Kubernetes With AKS

This article will walk you through the step-by-step instructions of setting up the Runtime Fabric on self-managed Azure Kubernetes Service aka AKS.

June 28, 2021

by Ranjeet Bhoyar

· 22,972 Views · 3 Likes

How the Capital One Breach Could Have Been Avoided With Application-Layer Data Encryption

Capital One discovered a data breach within their Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud infrastructure in July 2019. How could it have possibly been avoided?

Updated June 26, 2021

by Wias Issa

· 9,252 Views · 3 Likes

Practical Guide to SRE: Incident Severity Levels

Incident severity levels are a measurement of the impact an incident has on the business. Classifying the severity of an issue is critical to decide how quickly and efficiently problems get resolved.

June 25, 2021

by nancy chauhan

· 14,485 Views · 5 Likes

Implementing Zero Trust Architecture on Azure Hybrid Cloud

The article discusses implementing NIST's Zero Trust Architecture while migrating to MS Azure, and using tools and services offered on Microsoft Azure.

June 24, 2021

by Ajit Bhingarkar

· 9,586 Views · 5 Likes

Understanding Open Telemetry and Observability w/ Splunk's Spiros Xanthos

Splunk's VP of Observability breaks down what the future of data and OpenTelemetry look like on the Dev Interrupted Podcast.

June 22, 2021

by Dan Lines

CORE

· 15,820 Views · 5 Likes

From Architecture to an AWS Serverless POC: Architect's Journey

Solution architecture for a financial services client onboarding user journey and patterns to design and develop a Python microservice deployed as an AWS serverless application.

June 9, 2021

by David Shilman

CORE

· 10,482 Views · 8 Likes

AWS Applications Deployment Basics: Setup NGINX

In this post, we will setup NGINX and use it as a reverse proxy in the AWS cloud.

June 6, 2021

by Jawad Hasan Shani

CORE

· 22,385 Views · 4 Likes

Reference Architecture: Deploying WSO2 API Manager on Microsoft Azure

I will be discussing how to deploy the WSO2 API Manager on the Azure cloud, and what are different Azure workloads can be used in the solution.

June 6, 2021

by Joy Rathnayake

· 15,191 Views · 1 Like

Deploy an ASP.NET Core Application in the IBM Cloud Code Engine

Turn your ASP.NET application into a serverless engine.

June 6, 2021

by Deepak Rai

· 10,060 Views · 2 Likes

Route53 With a Private Hosted Zone

A few easy steps to get familiar with Route53 using Private Hosted Zone in AWS. Route53 is an AWS service that provides a mapping between domain names and IP addresses.

June 3, 2021

by Giridhar LV

· 10,849 Views · 2 Likes

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