“You can’t improve what you don’t measure.” I’m sure you’re familiar with at least some variation of this phrase. The saying, often attributed to Peter Drucker, speaks to the importance of metrics as fundamental tools to enrich and improve business processes of all kinds. Metrics are crucial in many different areas. Software development and software […]
Information technology and the digital world don’t exist without data. The data of an organization can contain a lot of unclassified, as well as classified, information. Irrespective of that, only authorized personnel should have access to data. However, malicious actors try to breach security and gain access to data, and it’s not good for the […]
PostgreSQL stores sensitive data such as customer profiles, financial transactions, and authentication records. This data is often copied into lower environments for development, testing, and analytics. The issue is that these environments aren’t designed to safely handle production data, creating security and compliance risks. In this post, we’ll explain how Postgres data masking solves this […]
Preamble Software is buggy. It’s a bold claim, I know. Sarcasm aside, the battle to keep your applications up and running is ongoing. Wouldn’t it be nice if you had a way to eliminate an entire class of bugs from your application? Enterprise configuration management can give you this benefit. Engineers shouldn’t have to spend […]
Preamble These days, deploying our services to the cloud just makes sense. Deploying to the cloud means you’re letting someone else handle low-level infrastructure costs, which gives us incredible flexibility. And with such flexibility comes a potentially overwhelming set of options for the best ways we can monitor our systems and take advantage of how […]
It’s the normal case with software buzzwords that people focus so much on what something is that they forget what it is not. DevOps is no exception. To truly embrace DevOps and cherish what it is, it’s important to comprehend what it isn’t. A plethora of resources are available in the form of definitions, principles, and guidelines that […]