Introduction On our website you will find a two-part blog published on the protection of sensitive data, such as Personally Identifiable Information (PII), in the cloud. The first, focused on the nature of PII and associated regulatory requirements, and the second looked at how a serverless architecture can aid compliance. Much of the guidance in […]
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Cloud consultant Asanka Nissanka looks at how to use AWS Fault Injection Simulator (FIS) for chaos testing. One of the most common misconceptions about cloud-based systems is that they are inherently reliable and don’t require failure testing. Yet under the shared responsibility model, cloud vendors are only responsible for reliability of the cloud, not workloads […]
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Factors that underpin cloud security best practices are frequently overlooked during accelerated large-scale migration or adoption. The result is shaky foundations that put the organisation at risk of accidental or malicious breaches. To prevent this, security should be considered a fundamental aspect of cloud builds from the outset, not a standalone activity. In this blog, […]
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Introduction On a high level, most typical applications consist of workflows that process tasks. Within each workflow are steps performing actions on the tasks. In modern applications, these steps are typically implemented as container services or serverless microservices. If we use an analogy to help understand this, then the application would be an organisation such […]
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The game day concept originates in hackathons, where programmers get together to build or improve upon a piece of software. Game days however are more inclusive of non-technical people. They offer many benefits, especially for organisations on the cloud adoption journey. This post explains what game days are and gives ten good reasons to hold […]
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Our managed services team runs an ongoing Datadog hackathon to keep on top of the platform’s emerging and evolving features. Cloud engineers hone their skills while contributing to a repository of insights and ‘as code’ templates for rapid deployment. Terraform is regularly used by our cloud engineers to manage Datadog resources on an ‘as code’ basis. An […]
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Cloud-to-cloud migration is not for the faint-hearted. But after a business merger or acquisition it’s sometimes a necessary step. This post looks at our work for Zego, a provider of flexible insurance solutions for business vehicles. Zego has an established presence on Amazon Web Services (AWS) and following its acquisition of vehicle insurance telematics specialist […]
Introduction Organisations around the world want to improve the efficiency of their software development teams, delivering software at scale to their customers. When organisations want to improve the quality and efficiency of their teams, they need to determine how to measure success. Some common questions that we hear from our clients include: How good are […]
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Organisations with large Splunk deployments, especially those using Splunk Enterprise Security, understand the importance of having data sources properly mapped to the Splunk Common Information Model (CIM) data models. Poor CIM compliance yields poor security insights, as Splunk Enterprise Security utilises data model searches almost exclusively in its security use-case correlation searches. Something that has been […]
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Introduction Monitoring as code is emerging as a vital and sophisticated part of the cloud operations management mix. This goes beyond the automated installation of monitoring agents and plugins. At its best, monitoring as code significantly improves observability as well as automating diagnosis, alerts and incident management. It can also bring automation to the remediation […]
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