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Vulnerability assessment: key to protecting applications and infrastructure

Dynatrace

Examples of such weaknesses are errors in application code, misconfigured network devices, and overly permissive access controls in a database. Cloud infrastructure analysis ensures the secure configuration of cloud infrastructure including virtual machines, containers, cloud-hosted databases, and serverless services.

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Application vulnerabilities: Important lessons from the OWASP top 10 about application security risks

Dynatrace

The advent of microservices and serverless computing means that cloud-based applications may consist of thousands of containerized services. For this, best practices would be to segregate commands from data, use parameterized SQL queries, and eliminate the interpreter by using a safe application program interface, if possible.

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Cloud Native Predictions for 2024

Percona

of respondents are currently utilizing databases in Kubernetes (k8s). These indicators suggest that the adoption of databases on k8s is in its early stages and is likely to continue growing in the future. This marks the end of an era of chaos, paving the way for efficiency gains, quicker innovation, and standardized practices.

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Sustainability Talks and Updates from AWS re:Invent 2023

Adrian Cockcroft

In this session, learn how to build automated, serverless AWS architectures to upload, extract, process, verify, and validate supply chain documents, accelerating end-to-end supply chain transparency. This session revisits the pillar and its best practices. AWS speaker: T.

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What is cloud monitoring? How to improve your full-stack visibility

Dynatrace

Database monitoring. This ensures the database queries are performant, while also identifying host problems. For example, uptime detection can identify database instability and help to improve mean time to restoration. Best practices to consider. Website monitoring. Cloud storage monitoring.

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Weighing a microservices approach means covering all architecture bases

Dynatrace

Smaller teams can launch services much faster using flexible containerized environments, such as Kubernetes, or serverless functions, such as AWS Lambda, Google Cloud Functions, and Azure Functions. Additionally, typical SOA models use larger relational databases. Serverless platforms. API gateways.

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Azure Well-Architected Framework: What it is and how to tame it with AI and automation

Dynatrace

The Framework is built on five pillars of architectural best practices: Cost optimization. Each pillar brings business and technology leaders together to help organizations choose architecture options that best strategically align to their specific business priorities as they begin their cloud journey. Operational excellence.

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