Tag: authentication

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: R Views. This is the final entry in a three-part series about the plumber package. The first post introduces plumber as an R package for building REST API endpoints in R. The second post builds a working example of a plumber API that powers a Slack slash command. In this final entry, we will secure the API created in the previous post so that it only responds to authenticated requests, and deploy it using RStudio Connect. As a reminder, this API is built on top of simulated customer call data. The slash command we create will allow ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Richard Kang. Today Amazon Web Services (AWS) announced the beta of Amazon FreeRTOS BLE, a feature that makes it possible for embedded developers to securely connect Amazon FreeRTOS devices that use Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) to AWS IoT through Android or iOS devices. BLE support in Amazon FreeRTOS lets developers create new applications for devices that need lower power than any other forms of connectivity, including Wi-Fi.With BLE support in Amazon FreeRTOS, developers can use the standard Generic Access Profile (GAP) and Generic Attributes (GATT) profiles through a universal ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Sundereshwaran Raman. AWS IoT Device Tester is now available. AWS IoT Device Tester is a Windows/Linux/macOS test automation application that enables silicon vendors and OEMs to easily perform qualification testing to determine if their devices can run Amazon FreeRTOS or AWS IoT Greengrass and interoperate with AWS IoT services. AWS IoT Device Tester produces a test report that serves as qualification evidence for silicon vendors and OEMs who want to list their devices on the AWS Partner Device Catalog. There are two versions of AWS IoT Device Tester: AWS IoT Device Tester for ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Starting today, you can embed Amazon QuickSight dashboards in your applications. This means you can now quickly and efficiently enhance your applications with rich interactive data visualizations and analytics capabilities without any custom development. You won’t require specialized expertise on your team to develop, maintain, and evolving the analytics components for your applications, nor manage and scale your analytics servers and infrastructure with your applications’ popularity. This saves you time and money and lets you focus on your core application functionality!Embedded Amazon QuickSight dashboards allow you to utilize Amazon QuickSight’s serverless architecture and easily scale ... Read More

Feed: The Internet of Things on AWS – Official Blog. Author: Tatiana Cooke. AWS IoT Greengrass allows you to bring local compute, messaging, data caching, sync, and ML inference capabilities to edge devices. Our newest release introduces features that simplify the deployment of Lambda functions to Greengrass, provide more flexibility so you can deploy Greengrass to new environments, and add easy-to-use security capabilities. Starting today, you can use new features that extend the capabilities of AWS IoT Greengrass devices, including connections to third-party applications and AWS services, isolation and permission settings that increase AWS IoT Greengrass configuration options, and hardware ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Rafat Sarosh. In this blog post, we will discuss how to build a multi-tenant system on Azure Cosmos DB. Azure Cosmos DB itself is a multi-tenant PaaS offering on Microsoft Azure. Building a multi-tenant system on another multi-tenant system can be challenging, but Azure provides us all the tools to make our task easy. An example of a multi-tenant system would be a company providing background check services that any other company can use in their HR system. For the purposes of this blog post we are going to use this example and continue from ... Read More

Feed: Planet MySQL; Author: The Pythian Group; We recently helped a social media management platform improve its security and performance. The social media platform supports social network integrations for Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and YouTube, and has more than 15 million users. The company needed to ensure maximum security and performance for its authentication processes by reducing the hours and errors associated with manual administration. These improvements would allow the organization to not only minimize downtime and expand the feature set available to its developers, but would also ensure the company’s compliance with Europe’s new General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) ... Read More

Feed: Actian. Author: John Bard. Actian DataFlow is a parallel workflow platform for end-to-end data access, transformation, preparation, and predictive analysis that eliminates performance bottlenecks in your data-intensive applications.  Complementary to the Actian Vector analytic database, DataFlow leverages concurrency, parallelism and pipelining to accelerate data movement between locations in your data architecture, creating faster results.  DataFlow eliminates memory constraints, as well as the need for data movement into specific data stores before analytics are run. DataFlow understands the available resources before breaking up the execution into smaller chunks that can be run in parallel to take maximum advantage of horizontal ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Jan Vandenbos. We are excited to share the preview availability of our Python packaging (PyPI) capabilities for Azure Artifacts and would love for you to give it a try. Our team spends a lot of time surveying and listening to our customers to learn about their needs with regards to Azure Artifacts (packaging). In our research, it became evident that PyPI support was our most requested packaging type. This finding has motivated the hard work behind getting the PyPI feature ready for release. If you work with Python packages in the scope of Azure DevOps, ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: John Walton. In the past, I’ve spoken at length on the criticality of assuming breaches can and will occur rather than simply seeking to focus solely on preventing breaches from occurring. Dating back to 2009 this security strategy, called Assume Breach, has historically been executed by two core groups in Microsoft: The Red Team (attackers) and the Blue Team (defenders). We now introduce the Green Team (fixers). In 2016, we continued to evolve Assume Breach and established both the concept as well as the function of Green Teaming in Microsoft Azure. An industry first, the Green ... Read More