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Optimizing PCI compliance in financial institutions

CIO Business Intelligence

CCA prerequisites Large organizations usually govern their IT portfolio via global architectural patterns, which can be thought of as building blocks, and include IT security patterns. In practice, IT architectural patterns give architects the building blocks to design any IT solution.

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Lessons Learnt from Running a Container-Native Cloud

Scott Lowe

The cloud offers container-centric resources (floating IPs, security groups, etc.). The cloud offers container-based services (load balancing, scheduled jobs, functions, etc.). This means container-level APIs and the ability to launch containers without a VM. Billing is handled on a per-container level (not on a VM level).

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Vendor-Side DevOps Practices Can Still Deliver Better Value While Client-Side Government Processes Catch Up

CTOvision

I bring up the cultural aspect because, after all, it takes groups of humans buying into better practices before new tools and process can take root — and there are significant challenges in government channels to adopting these. I heard a lot of questions targeted to this exact area at a recent event I attended in Washington, D.C.,

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Liveblog: Introduction to Managed Database Services on AWS

Scott Lowe

Challenges faced here led FanDuel to re-architect to the next-generation architecture. In 2011, FanDuel migrated entirely to AWS, but scaling issues due to application architecture persisted. In 2012, FanDuel moved the architecture toward SOA, introducing message queues to decouple services.

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Liveblog: IPv6 in the Cloud - Protocol and Service Overview

Scott Lowe

” The presenter’s name is Alan Halachmi, who is a Senior Manager of Solutions Architecture at AWS. You can also use the double-colon notation to represent any contiguous group of zeroes. The AWS Application Load Balancer (ALB) supports IPv6, but this must be enabled at the time of creation.

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What’s Free at Linux Academy — March 2019

Linux Academy

Each month, we will kick off our community content with a live study group, allowing members of the Linux Academy community to come together and share their insights in order to learn from one another. March Study Group Course: Linux Operating System Fundamentals – Have you heard of Linux, but don’t really know anything about it?

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Liveblog: How News UK Centralized Cloud Governance

Scott Lowe

Elastic Load Balancing left unused. Regular review of security groups. Adherence to architectural standards/controls. So what are some common cloud governance issues? No tagging. Reluctance to invest in Reserved Instances. Reserved Instances left underutilized. No right-sizing. RDS instances with no connections.