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Closed-loop remediation: Why unified observability is an essential auto-remediation best practice

Dynatrace

Closed loop” refers to the continuous feedback loop in which the system takes actions — based on monitoring and analysis — and verifies the results to ensure complete problem remediation. The goal is to either improve or restore the system to its optimally functioning state. If successful, the system closes the loop and notifies teams.

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MySQL Backup and Recovery Best Practices: The Ultimate Guide

Percona

The key question related to RTO is, “How quickly must the data on this system be restored?” Snapshot Backups: Some file system implementations enable “snapshots” to be taken. These provide logical copies of the file system at a given point in time, without requiring a physical copy of the entire file system.

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MongoDB Security: Top Security Concerns and Best Practices

Percona

Watch Now : Using Open Source Software to Secure Your MongoDB Database MongoDB Security Features and Best Practices Authentication in MongoDB Most breaches involving MongoDB occur because of a deadly combination of authentication disabled and MongoDB opened to the internet. Thankfully, LDAP can fill many of these gaps.

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The future of AI: Kelsey Hightower on how AI can raise the bar for humanity

Dynatrace

The first systems reliability engineer (SRE) position ever created may have been thousands of years ago, in a village whose inhabitants needed to protect themselves from predators. He noted that a boundary is beneficial between an internet service provider and its customer. “I Hightower shared his beliefs on operational best practices.

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Implementing service-level objectives to improve software quality

Dynatrace

In what follows, we explore some of these best practices and guidance for implementing service-level objectives in your monitored environment. Best practices for implementing service-level objectives. The Dynatrace ACE services team has experience helping customers with defining and implementing SLOs. Reliability.

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

Dynatrace

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. Identification and authentication failures Unauthorized users can access a system because of weak security or session management functions.

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Container security: What it is, why it’s tricky, and how to do it right

Dynatrace

However, to be secure, containers must be properly isolated from each other and from the host system itself. Many good security tools provide that function, and benchmarks from the Center for Internet Security (CIS) are clear and prescriptive. Network scanners that see systems from the “outside” perspective.