Tag: Cloud and infrastructure
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Introducing blockchain node engine: Fully managed node-hosting for Web3 development
Posted on December 8, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Blockchain is changing the way the world stores and moves its information. Building on our commitment to help Web3 developers build and deploy new products on blockchain-based platforms, today we're thrilled to announce Google Cloud's Blockchain Node Engine. By Amit Zavery, James Tromans.
Tags frontend-and-mobile product-and-design business-and-emerging-tech cloud-and-infrastructure
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Five ways to harden your Linux server with Ansible
Posted on December 7, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Automation allows you to apply compliance and security policies consistently across your servers, verify compliance, and remediate servers. By Ricardo Gerardi.
Tags cloud-and-infrastructure security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd
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Ten essential cloud DevOps tools for AWS
Posted on December 6, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Building, testing, and monitoring applications in the cloud is a unique challenge. While many organizations have embraced a DevOps methodology, their DevOps machine is still not at the level of maturity they might like it to be. According to a recent survey, 53% work on a team with a 'low level' of DevOps based on maturity factors. By Dave Armlin.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure devops-and-ci-cd frontend-and-mobile
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Six common mistakes to avoid in RESTful web API design
Posted on December 5, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
There are methods to improve API design — like following RESTful practices. But time and again we are seeing customers unknowingly program minor inconveniences into their APIs. To help you avoid these pitfalls, here are six of the most common mistakes we have seen developers make while creating the API — and guidance on how to get it right. By Varun Krovvidi,Geir Sjurseth.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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How to create an amazon product search API with data collectors
Posted on December 3, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
How to scrape data from amazon.com with Bright Data's data collectors, and create a product search API that you can deploy to the web and monetize it. By Oskar Petr.
Tags architecture-and-apis cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design frontend-and-mobile
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NoSQL, NoMQ: Palo Alto networks' new event streaming paradigm
Posted on December 2, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Palo Alto Networks eliminated the MQ layer for a project that correlates events in near real time, using an existing database instead of Kafka. By Cynthia Dunlop.
Tags data-and-analytics leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design
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Don't know what to monitor? L.E.T.S. Start with 4 Metrics!
Posted on December 1, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
"We paid for a bunch of tools but we don't know what we should be looking at. There are tons of charts that don't seem to mean anything!" Software monitoring, how does it work? By Jeremy Hicks.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure product-and-design architecture-and-apis frontend-and-mobile
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Microsoft says it's just too difficult to effectively disrupt ransomware
Posted on November 30, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The company details its new approach to combatting cyber crime as the underground industry drains $6 trillion from the global economy. By Connor Jones.
Tags leadership-and-career security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure miscellaneous
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NGINX ingress controller hardening guide
Posted on November 27, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length short
This guide describes, what of the different configurations described in those guides is already implemented as default in the nginx implementation of kubernetes ingress. By @kubernetes.github.io.
Tags devops-and-ci-cd security-and-privacy cloud-and-infrastructure architecture-and-apis
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NGINX WAF and Kubernetes WAF options (App Protect vs. open-appsec)
Posted on November 26, 2022, Level intermediate Resource Length short
Until 2022, NGINX supported the well-known ModSecurity open-source WAF solution and OWASP Core RuleSet Signatures. However, following Trustwaves End-of-Life notice about ModSecurity, and possibly related also to the acquisition of NGINX by F5, NGINX announced in May 2022 that it will end of life ModSecurity, leaving NGINX open-source with no open-source security solution. By Christopher Lutat.
Tags security-and-privacy devops-and-ci-cd cloud-and-infrastructure
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Service exhaustion floods — HTTP/HTTPS flood, HTTP pipelining, and SSL renegotiation DDoS attack
Posted on November 25, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
On 1 June 2022, a Google Cloud Armor customer was hit with a Distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack over the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) protocol that reached 46 million requests per second (RPS), making it one of the largest ever recorded Layer 7 DDoS attacks reported this year. By Debashis Pal.
Tags security-and-privacy product-and-design cloud-and-infrastructure leadership-and-career devops-and-ci-cd
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Stepping into the Metaverse: How retailers can prepare
Posted on November 22, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Retail is changing so fast that even this advice is reaching its expiration date. Soon, a presence in the metaverse will be an absolute necessity, and retailers stranded in today's e-commerce environment will be left behind. By Alexandre de Vigan.
Tags miscellaneous leadership-and-career cloud-and-infrastructure