Tag: Servers
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How to use Ansible to create reports with Lynis, automate audits, and evaluate the security of your systems
Posted on April 29, 2023, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
From the server administrators of highly technological organizations, to product managers of financial institutions, down to the one-man startups that just want to secure their shopping cart, the same question pops up: "If TLS/SSL certificates all do the same thing, what type should we get?" By Digicert.
Tags ansible servers linux infosec
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How to choose the right type of TLS/SSL certificate
Posted on April 28, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
From the server administrators of highly technological organizations, to product managers of financial institutions, down to the one-man startups that just want to secure their shopping cart, the same question pops up: "If TLS/SSL certificates all do the same thing, what type should we get?" By Digicert.
Tags ssl servers cio learning infosec app-development
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How we achieved a 6-fold increase in Podman startup speed
Posted on April 21, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length medium
By cutting unnecessary processes, you can realize near-real-time container startup, critical in cars and other time-sensitive applications. By Dan Walsh (Red Hat), Alexander Larsson (Red Hat), Pierre-Yves Chibon (Red Hat).
Tags ibm devops linux cloud performance servers
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NGINX tutorial: How to use OpenTelemetry tracing to understand your microservices
Posted on April 9, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
A microservices architecture comes with many benefits, including increased team autonomy and increased flexibility in scaling and deployment. On the downside, the more services in a system (and a microservices app can have dozens or even hundreds), the more difficult it becomes to maintain a clear picture of the overall operation of the system.Observability tooling gives us the power to build that picture across numerous services and supporting infrastructure. By Vijay Kanade.
Tags cloud nginx monitoring devops microservices servers
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What is virtual memory? Meaning, architecture, benefits and challenges
Posted on April 8, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
Virtual memory speeds up the execution of heavier applications without running out of memory. Virtual memory is defined as a memory management method where computers use secondary memory to compensate for the scarcity of physical memory. By Vijay Kanade .
Tags cloud cio linux miscellaneous servers
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How to connect to MySQL remotely with SSH PuTTY Tunnels: A step-by-step guide
Posted on April 6, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length long
MySQL is a popular relational database management system to organize and store data. Depending on your specific use cases and preferences, you can connect to a MySQL Server through a command-line interface, using GUI tools,such as dbForge Studio for MySQL, programming languages or via web-based interfaces such as phpMyAdmin. By Julia Evans.
Tags infosec cloud devops database servers
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Azure Confidential Computing on 4th gen Intel Xeon scalable processors with Intel TDX
Posted on January 28, 2023, Level beginner Resource Length short
Intel TDX meets the Confidential Computing Consortium (CCC) standard for hardware-enforced memory protection not controlled by the cloud provider, all while delivering minimal performance impact with no code changes. By Mark Russinovich Chief Technology Officer and Technical Fellow, Microsoft Azure.
Tags azure app-development infosec cloud servers
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Can you double CPU performance by cooling it with a chip instead of a fan?
Posted on December 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
A four-year-old company is coming to market soon with an unexpected technology to cool CPUs and SoCs. Frore Systems has developed a cooling chip it calls AirJet that sits on top of a heat-generating chip and cools it without the need for mechanical fans. By Josh Norem.
Tags cloud miscellaneous cio fintech servers
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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 monitoring infosec cloud servers app-development serverless web-development
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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 nginx infosec devops cloud distributed apis servers
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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 infosec devops cloud nginx servers
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How to program an IoT device in Elixir using Nerves?
Posted on September 9, 2022, Level beginner Resource Length short
Elixir is a great choice language for IoT devices due to its fault-tolerant nature, but also because of the ability to handle a lot of concurrent I/O operations thanks to the BEAM scheduler running under the hood. By Artur Ziętkiewicz.
Tags iot elixir servers performance distributed apis