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Avoid committing “crimes against Observability” and get your Observability practice off the ground the right way.

Community guest post by Yuri Shkuro, creator and maintainer of Jaeger, and Michael Haberman, Co-Founder & CTO of Aspecto If you deal with distributed applications at scale, you probably use tracing.

Use Observability-Driven Development to build end-to-end tests 98% faster with OpenTelemetry and trace-based testing.

New Datadog Security Labs post by Researcher Andy Giron just dropped! https://lnkd.in/eBEbzBN9 Lots of insight on threat detection of C2 via "chat platforms"

How save costs on AWS SQL Athena? Cost of using AWS SQL Athena is killing you?

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Amazon Athena is an interactive query service that makes it easy to analyze data in Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) using standard SQL. Athena is serverless, so there is no infrastructure to manage, and you pay only for the queries that you run on datasets at petabyte scale. You can use Athena to query […]

Simple task queue using Redis Streams with support for worker heartbeats and recovery of abandoned tasks.

According to a recent Thoughtworks radar, “the industry is increasingly gaining experience with platform engineering product teams that create and support internal platforms.” They caveated this with a piece of advice: “When creating a platform, it’s critical to have clearly defined customers and products that will benefit from it rather than building in a vacuum.” …

Moving SciPy to Meson meant finding a different Fortran compiler on Windows, which was particularly tricky to pull off for conda-forge. This blog tells the story about how things looked pretty grim for the Python 3.12 release, and how things ended up working out just in the nick of time.

BlueSky now has a public web view allowing you to share posts without needing the app or to log in e.g. https://bsky.app/profile/xkcd.com/post/3kh6eemzraw27

Slack built a highly scalable and reliable service for executing cron jobs. Here are 7 points you must know to understand the entire process: ✅ Slack's…

Cloudflare is participating in the AS112 project, becoming an operator of the loosely coordinated, distributed sink of the reverse lookup (PTR) queries for RFC 1918 addresses, dynamic DNS updates and other ambiguous addresses.

Many people are confused about routing security terms like “Bogons” and “Martians”, so let’s dig into what they mean, where they came from, and the difference between them. My thoughts flash back to August 2006, at the first-ever South Asian Network Operators Group (SANOG) in Karachi, Pakistan, where I first heard the word “Bogon” from […]

A look at the APIs used by Kubernetes in it's operation and how they're secured.

A Customer administrator can view voucher expiration dates in two reports. If a voucher is not yet claimed, access the Inventory Detail Report. What does the Inventory Detail report show?  If a...

Steps for using your AWS Exam voucher code to schedule your exam. You will receive your voucher code in an email from Xvoucher Support. Each AWS certification exam voucher will have a unique code a...

Your voucher code can be found by logging into your Xvoucher account. Log into your Xvoucher account. Click on the name of the item on your dashboard. Click on the green Go button. A page will ope...

For the first 90 days after purchase, you can now unassign vouchers that have not been claimed by candidates. Once purchased, your AWS Xvouchers will remain as Available in your inventory for 90 da...

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For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent software engineers representing Coinbase and Meta as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?

isEven API tells you if a number is even

At the end of last year, code deployments were frozen at many tech companies. Why was this done, what are the benefits, and what are the tradeoffs of this approach?

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Windows laptop manufacturers will likely need to fix this one.

One of the great features of the Linux kernel is its ability to support the loading/unloading of kernel modules.

Dive in a Kubernetes attack and see how eBPF and other security best practices can prevent these attacks.

Learn the connection between the Docker container and Docker host kernel modules.

An Introduction to Extended BPF and Its Transformative Impact.