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Best Practices for Securely Leveraging the Cloud
Over 20,000 people from all over the world descended on Las Vegas this week for Amazon’s completely sold out AWS re:Invent 2015 show. They came for many reasons, education, networking, great food,...
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Public vs. Private Cloud
A few weeks back, a reporter from the National Business Review phoned me for an interview on a piece he was writing, the topic broadly being the “Cloud”. There seemed to be a lot of confusion,...
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Feel the Spray Yet? (Riding the Ocean of Data Tsunami)
The talk of digital business transformation is vast and deep, but what of it’s impact on the very nature of innovation itself? For example, the speed in which an idea goes from the spark in an...
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Public vs. Private Cloud
A few weeks back, a reporter from the National Business Review phoned me for an interview on a piece he was writing, the topic broadly being the “Cloud”. There seemed to be a lot of confusion,...
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New Heroku Add-on for Sumo Logic Goes Beta
Today, Sumo Logic is pleased to announce that it is partnering with Heroku to bring a new level of real-time visibility to Heroku logs. Now Heroku developers will be able to select the Sumo Logic...
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Heroku Add-on for Sumo Logic Quick Start
In test driving the new Heroku Add-on for Sumo Logic beta, I needed to create a simple app on Heroku, then start logging data. Heroku is a managed container environment that supports several popular...
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Open Sourcing DevOps
Once again, DevOps is moving the needle. This time, it’s in the open source world, and both open source and commercial software may never be the same again. As more and more open source projects have...
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Step-by-Step Approach To Reducing On-Call Pain
Companies that move fast put pressure on developers and QA to continually innovate and push software out. This leaves the people with the pager, quite often the same developers, dealing with a...
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Rapid Similarity Search with Weighted Min-Hash
We are in the era of big data characterized by data sets that are too large, fast and complicated to be handled by standard methods or tools. An example of such kind of big data sets is...
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Stateful traversal and econometric simulation: together at last!
Functional programming concepts such as the State monad and the Traversable type class can be powerful tools for thinking about common software engineering problems. As with any abstractions, these...
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Change Management, the ChatOps Way
All changes to production environments at Sumo Logic follow a well-documented change management process. While generally a sound practice, it is also specifically required for PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO...
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A Better Way to Analyze Log Files on the Command Line
Sumo Logic makes it easy to aggregate and search terabytes of log data. But you don’t always have terabytes of data on 1000s of servers. Sometimes you have just a few log files on a single server....
View Article5 Traits Of Highly Effective Operations Teams
What are some of the key skills that highly effective operational teams possess? What makes one operations team much more effective than another? Here is my take on a few of the key traits highly...
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Leveraging AWS Spot Instances for Continuous Integration
Automated Continuous Integration (CI), at a high level, is a development process in which changes submitted to a central version control repository by developers are automatically built and run through...
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Change Management, the ChatOps Way
All changes to production environments at Sumo Logic follow a well-documented change management process. While generally a sound practice, it is also specifically required for PCI, SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO...
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A Better Way to Analyze Log Files on the Command Line
Sumo Logic makes it easy to aggregate and search terabytes of log data. But you don’t always have terabytes of data on 1000s of servers. Sometimes you have just a few log files on a single server....
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Log Analysis in a DevOps Environment
Log analysis is a first-rate debugging tool for DevOps. But if all you’re using it for is finding and preventing trouble, you may be missing some of the major benefits of log analysis. What else can it...
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Microservices Versus Monoliths
How did you plan your application architecture? How do you split your focus between ease of management and ultimate scalability? Are they mutually exclusive? Microservices have demonstrated an ability...
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Sumo Logic Takes Center Stage at PCI Europe Community Meeting
Back in Aug 19, 2015, we announced that Sumo Logic has joined the Payment Card Industry (PCI) Security Standards Council (SSC) as a participating organization, and is also an active member in the...
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Docker Engine for Windows Server 2016
Until recently, deploying containers on Windows (or on Microsoft’s Azure cloud) meant deploying them on a Linux/UNIX VM managed by a Windows-based hypervisor. Microsoft is a member of the Open...
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