Platform engineering aims to enhance the developer experience through the establishment of secure environments, automated and self-service tools, and streamlined...
Due to growing demands for high-performance analytics, modern businesses consider data capabilities critical to daily operations. Enter Apache Kafka — a streaming...
Platform engineering aims to enhance the developer experience through the establishment of secure environments, automated and self-service tools, and streamlined workflows. However, as technology and cyber threats continue to evolve, the integration of automation, security, and AI will be vital to the success of these platforms.
In this Refcard, you will learn more about the value of platform engineering, including best practices, tools, core capabilities, how to align business goals, and more.
Due to growing demands for high-performance analytics, modern businesses consider data capabilities critical to daily operations.
Enter Apache Kafka — a streaming engine for collecting, caching, and processing high volumes of data in real time. The distributed event store typically serves as a central data hub that accepts all enterprise data for aggregation, transformation, enrichment, ingestion, and analysis. The data can then be used for continuous processing or fed into other systems and applications in real time.
In this Refcard update, we'll explore the fundamentals of Apache Kafka today and delve into how Apache Flink complements Kafka as a powerful stream processing framework.
Whether you're working with on-premises, cloud, and/or third-party integrations, the questions remain the same: What is the client or user experience you need to offer? And how do you align your integration strategy with it? This Refcard explores fundamental patterns for authentication, polling, querying, and more, helping you assess your integration needs and approach the design, build, and maintenance of your API integrations in the most effective ways for your business case.
Today's cyber threat landscape necessitates a nuanced and proactive strategy for circumventing attacks due to the increasingly complex, sophisticated nature of threats. Security teams must not only have a solid understanding of the landscape but also have effective solutions for predicting and preempting security threats — those both known and unknown to their organization.
In this updated Refcard, you will learn about the evolving threat landscape as well as basic and advanced threat detection techniques, how they are similar and different to threat hunting, and key challenges of emerging technologies, all provided to help strengthen your overall security strategy.
Open-source data architectures offer organizations and teams significant benefits, ranging from reduced vendor lock-in and improved cost effectiveness to greater scalability, availability, and flexibility. In this Refcard, you'll learn core practices for building an open-source data architecture stack, along with design patterns for infrastructure components, high availability, scalability, security, and more.
As data-driven applications continue to grow, it is important for organizations to develop data-driven strategies that drive their business objectives. For modern businesses, data is invaluable, so it comes as no surprise that a majority of emerging technologies and approaches are focused on ensuring efficient data management, enhanced analytics, and robust data security. In this Refcard, we explore how data orchestration helps break down data silos, enables complex analytics, and eliminates I/O bottlenecks. We also dive into various data orchestration practices and use cases.
Secrets management plays a pivotal role in any modern security environment, and its importance continues to be highlighted as time and time again, we witness security breaches across industries, even occurrences directly caused by the improper safeguarding or mishandling of secrets. In this Refcard, readers will learn about the core practices for a centralized secrets management strategy — from initial steps in creating a single source of truth to key measures for secrets injection, automation, compliance, monitoring, and more.
Modern data-driven applications are based on various data sources and complex data stacks that require well-designed frameworks to deliver operational efficiency and business insights. Data pipelines allow organizations to automate information extraction from distributed sources while consolidating data into high-performance storage for centralized access.
In this Refcard, we delve into the fundamentals of a data pipeline and the problems it solves for modern enterprises, along with its benefits and challenges.
With DevSecOps, teams can elevate their security standards while following DevOps principles.
In this Refcard, readers will learn about the govern > find > fix > prevent framework, key techniques for implementing the DevSecOps methodology to secure cloud environments effectively, the "Three Ways" of security, and the "Five Ideals" to frame security initiatives. Also included is a simple DevSecOps checklist with criteria to help guide users in setting up a DevSecOps strategy.
Rather than replacing other technology, vector databases have emerged as solution to new cases for which no other tool exists. To help users get up and running, this Refcard covers vector database key concepts, underlying principles, and common use cases. Following, readers will walk step by step through vector database setup, data preparation, collection creation, querying, and output — all using a practical retail scenario supplemented with code examples for ease of use.
Open source is a collaborative development model, offering a powerful alternative to traditional, closed-source software. Migrating to open source presents a wealth of benefits, from significant cost savings and enhanced security to increased flexibility and a vibrant community for support and collaboration. This Refcard delves into the key characteristics and advantages of open-source software, exploring its impact on various aspects of software development and deployment. We'll examine the benefits of cost-effectiveness, flexibility, and security offered by OSS, while also acknowledging potential challenges and best practices for responsible adoption.
Document-oriented NoSQL database MongoDB offers users a flexible schema design and rich query language as well as supports client drivers in multiple programming languages. Whether you're migrating to MongoDB or configuring it for the first time, this Refcard covers everything you need to know about setup and view options, using the shell, query and update operators, indexing, replica set maintenance, backups, user management, and much more — all accompanied by code samples and tips for success.
