There are a lot of different tasks for software developers, but each and every one of us has had to review old code. Whether it’s checking for a previous version or seeing how someone solved a problem in the past, legacy code is part of the job. But have you ever reviewed previous versions and become frustrated enough to ask “who wrote this code?” and madly hit “git blame” to … [Read more...] about Building a legacy: The art of crafting maintainable systems
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Building confidence through code: How Saarika Bhasi restarted her career in tech
Saarika Bhasi, now a software engineer II at Elastic, didn’t always envision herself in the tech industry. In fact, she was initially hesitant to commit to a career in software engineering. However, her passion for problem solving and building solutions from scratch sparked a deep interest in the field. “You can really develop something and see the result right in front of … [Read more...] about Building confidence through code: How Saarika Bhasi restarted her career in tech
Building a Resilient Network and Workload Security Architecture from the Ground Up
Building network and workload security architectures can be a daunting task. It involves not only choosing the right solution with the appropriate set of capabilities, but also ensuring that the solutions offer the right level of resilience. Resilience is often considered a network function, where the network must be robust enough to handle failures and offer alternate paths … [Read more...] about Building a Resilient Network and Workload Security Architecture from the Ground Up
Building a next-gen SOC at Pinewood, a leading MSSP, underpinned by Elastic SIEM
As an MSSP, Pinewood faces a high volume and variety of cyber threats from different customers on a daily basis. It’s essential that our clients’ applications, networks, and systems are secure and resilient — as well as our own. We also need to fulfill various functionalities like scalability, multi-tenancy, enhanced reporting, reduced false-positives, and an easy to use … [Read more...] about Building a next-gen SOC at Pinewood, a leading MSSP, underpinned by Elastic SIEM
Security, the cloud, and AI: building powerful outcomes while simplifying your experience
Over the past year, I’ve spoken with hundreds of professionals about what they expect from their network security. This question is mostly met with equal parts enthusiasm and angst. As we wrap up another successful Cisco Live, I’m eager to share the deep insights I’ve gathered from these extensive conversations and how Cisco is actively addressing your security needs. As … [Read more...] about Security, the cloud, and AI: building powerful outcomes while simplifying your experience
LangChain Tutorial: An Intro to Building LLM-powered apps
LangChain is a modular framework that integrates with LLMs. It’s a standardized interface that abstracts away the complexities and difficulties of working with different LLM APIs — it’s the same process for integrating with GPT-4, LLaMA, or any other LLM you want to use. It also has dynamic LLM selection, which means developers can select the most appropriate LLM for the … [Read more...] about LangChain Tutorial: An Intro to Building LLM-powered apps
The 4 Keys to Building Cloud Security Programs That Can Actually Shift Left
As cloud applications are built, tested and updated, they wind their way through an ever-complex series of different tools and teams. Across hundreds or even thousands of technologies that make up the patchwork quilt of development and cloud environments, security processes are all too often applied in only the final phases of software development. Placing security at the very … [Read more...] about The 4 Keys to Building Cloud Security Programs That Can Actually Shift Left
Someone Like Me: Tristan Ma on celebrating his culture, connecting through ElastAsians, and building his sales career
First generation can be interpreted in many ways. For Tristan Ma, Solutions Architect at Elastic, it means being the first generation to be born in the United States.While his parents have spent the majority of their lives in North America, Tristan and his sister were the first in their family to be born here.Tristan’s parents immigrated to North America from Vietnam—his dad … [Read more...] about Someone Like Me: Tristan Ma on celebrating his culture, connecting through ElastAsians, and building his sales career
Building the Ultimate Monitoring Dashboards in Logz.io: First Steps
Cloud infrastructure and application monitoring dashboards are critical to gaining visibility into the health and performance of your system. But what are the best metrics to monitor? What are the best types of visualizations to monitor them? How can you ensure your alerts are actionable?We answered these questions on our webinar Build the Ultimate Cloud Monitoring Dashboard. … [Read more...] about Building the Ultimate Monitoring Dashboards in Logz.io: First Steps
Building a secure and scalable multi-cloud environment with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense on Alkira Cloud
In today’s security climate, NetOps and SecOps teams are witnessing increased attack surface area as applications and workloads move far beyond the boundaries of their data center. These applications/workloads move to, and reside in multi-cloud architecture, adding complexity to connectivity, visibility, and control. In the multi-cloud world, the SecOps teams use a distributed … [Read more...] about Building a secure and scalable multi-cloud environment with Cisco Secure Firewall Threat Defense on Alkira Cloud