The search experience most of us are familiar with is Google’s. The company has raised the expectations of search, conditioning us to its level of user experience. However, most websites and mobile applications still don’t offer this kind of advanced search. Here are three things to consider to keep the search experience on your company […]
Avoiding Common AWS Security Risks
According to IBM’s Cyber Security Intelligence Index, 95% of all security incidents involve human error. That’s beyond significant, and when rapidly deploying multiple iterations in a DevOps shop, that means there are lots of opportunities to fail. Our own independent analysis based on customer configuration data shows that security control mechanisms Amazon Web Services (AWS) makes available […]
Security automation with DevOps: show me the code!
Last week Andrew Storms put up a good post hinting at the promise of security automation in [SecDevOps: Security Automation By Example – The Firewall Change]. He included an example of automating a series of actions when a firewall rule is changed. It’s a good article, although I’m increasingly convinced there’s no such thing as […]
Using AWS CloudWatch for Anomaly Detection
Based on my unscientific poll of friends, one of the least used and most overlooked features of AWS is CloudWatch. Not only can CloudWatch be used to monitor the availability of your AWS services, but it can also be used as anomaly an detection tool. Did I mention that these feature are free? Since the […]
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud is Now an Official Media Sponsor of MongoDB World
staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud, the place where the world meets DevOps is happy to report that we will be an official media sponsor of the upcoming MongoDB World conference. The event is in NYC at the Sheraton New York Times Square, 811 7th Ave, New York, NY 10019 on June 23-25, 2014. staging-devopsy.kinsta.cloud will be providing live coverage […]
Google Starts Cloud World War I, DevOps Wins
No matter the outcome, a cloud pricing war will leave DevOps the winner By now you probably saw the news and all of the buzz about how Google dropped its drawers eh, pricing on its cloud hosting. This is of course a direct shot at Amazon’s AWS. It’s about time someone with big enough stones (and […]
Data Driven Observations on AWS Usage from CloudCheckrs User Survey
This is a guest post by Aaron Klein from CloudCheckr We were heartened when AWS made Trusted Advisor free for the month of March. This was an implicit acknowledgement of what many have long known: AWS is complex and can be challenging for users to provision and control their AWS infrastructure effectively. We took the […]