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Feed: AWS Compute Blog. Author: Chris Munns. Serverless application architectures enable you to break large projects into smaller, more manageable services that are highly reusable and independently scalable, secured, and evolved over time. As serverless architectures grow, we have seen common patterns that get reimplemented across companies, teams, and projects, hurting development velocity and leading to wasted effort. We have made it easier to develop new serverless architectures that meet organizational best practices by supporting nested applications in AWS SAM and the AWS Serverless Application Repository.How it works Nested applications build off a concept in AWS CloudFormation called nested stacks ... Read More

Feed: Hazelcast Blog. Author: Matt Wolpin. Each month the Hazelcast team writes and curates articles to help executives, architects and developers stay up-to-date on the latest news and information. With that in mind, here are five “must-reads” as determined by their popularity on social media. The Human Side of Microservices Armağan Amcalar, head of software engineering at unu GmbH, spoke about the human side of microservices at Codemotion Berlin 2018. InfoQ interviewed Amcalar to get his unique perspective on software architecture, microservices and DevOps. Apereo CAS High-Availability with Hazelcast and Kubernetes Misagh Moayyed, software engineer and IAM consultant at Unicon, ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Whatever your industry, data is central to how organizations function. When we discuss data strategy with customers, it’s often in the context of how do they ingest, store, process, analyze, distribute, and ultimately secure data.Amazon EMR is a managed Hadoop framework that you use to process vast amounts of data. One of the reasons that customers choose Amazon EMR is its security features. For example, customers like FINRA in regulated industries such as financial services, and in healthcare, choose Amazon EMR as part of their data strategy. They do so to adhere to strict regulatory ... Read More

Feed: What's New. Author: Johanna Knapp. On November 15. & 16. 2018, Telekom hosted a women-only hackathon at the hub:raum in Berlin. The event was supported by Udacity, IBM, T-Labs, hub:raum, Telekom Open Spaces and Tableau. Initiated by Kenza Ait Si Abbou Lyadini and organized by 20+ members of the Women@Telekom network, the event welcomed 91 attendants out of a much larger number of applicants—all working or studying in the fields of AI, machine learning, data science, and programming. Participants worked in teams of six, each with the support of a mentor. The groups had the choice to work on ... Read More

Feed: Planet big data. Author: Amy DeMartine. Each year at our Privacy and Security Forum events, we run a session called Hackers Versus Executives.  In this session, we ask a hacker to cause mayhem and then stop at different points in the attack to ask executives what their responses are.  This year we attacked applications including containerized and serverless applications.  Two months ago we closed our London event with our Hackers Versus Executives session.  As a throw back, here’s a look at my top 10 favorite responses our executives gave both in London and Washington D.C. (Note: at times, responses ... Read More

Feed: AWS Partner Network (APN) Blog. Author: AWS Admin. By Ross Warren, Solutions Architect at AWSAWS Security Hub is a new service in Preview that provides customers with a comprehensive view of their security and compliance state across their Amazon Web Services (AWS) accounts. The service aggregates findings from other AWS services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, Amazon Macie, and integrations with AWS Security Partners. AWS Security Hub brings these findings together in a single dashboard per region and consolidates them into actionable, easy-to-understand graphs and tables. The service supports the concept of Insights, which are grouped security findings, ... Read More

Feed: Puppet Blog Feed. Author: Dimitri Tischenko; Due to its declarative DSL and resource abstraction, Puppet is an excellent solution for enforcing compliance across any server estate. There are modules on the forge providing automatic hardening. Other modules make it easy to enforce best practices in middleware configurations. Configuration drift is reported as corrective changes to Puppet Enterprise Console. The world is a happy place.More and more organisations are required to scan their infrastructure and determine whether it complies with standardized security and hardening benchmarks, such as CIS, NIST, PCI or BSI (see links at end of article for more ... Read More

Feed: Microsoft Azure Blog. Author: Mine Tokus. We are excited to share that a new, automated way to configure high availability solutions for SQL Server on Azure Virtual Machines (VMs) is now available using our SQL VM resource provider. To get started today, follow the instructions in the table below. High availability architectures are designed to continue to function even when there are database, hardware, or network failures. Azure Virtual Machine instances using Premium Storage for all operating system disks and data disks offers 99.9 percent availability. This SLA is impacted by three scenarios – unplanned hardware maintenance, unexpected downtime, ... Read More

Feed: R-bloggers. Author: Analytical Monk. As referenced in my last blog post, useR Delhi NCR is all set to host our second meetup on 15th December, i.e. upcoming Saturday. We’ve finalized two exciting speaker sessions for the same. They’re as follows: Basics of Shiny and geospatial visualizations by Sean Angiolillo Up in the air: cloud storage based workflows in R by Himanshu SikariaSpeaker session #1Speaker session #2 Apart from the above, the meetup will feature lightning talks and networking session for attendees.If you haven’t registered yet, do it now via this form. Event details can be found on useR Delhi’s ... Read More

Feed: AWS Big Data Blog. Understanding Windows system and service health on a global scale is challenging. You capture server log data, and then analyze and manipulate the data in real time to create actionable telemetry insights. Amazon Kinesis Agent for Microsoft Windows makes it efficient to ingest Windows server log data into your AWS ecosystem for analysis. This blog post discusses using Kinesis Agent for Windows to capture and aggregate Windows Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server logs. Then turning that data into service health graphs in Amazon CloudWatch.How do you quantify network access metrics of a team across ... Read More