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When we look back–in six months, 12 months, or even several years–at the global IT outage that severely disrupted major industries around the world, I don’t think that it will be hyperbole to say that July’s global outage is a watershed moment for IT. Just as the SolarWinds breach was security’s watershed moment, this will end up being IT’s.

With any IT environment, especially the public cloud, security is a top concern and priority. When leveraging the public cloud, one of the most important steps to ensuring a protected environment is recognizing the shared responsibility model, as it delineates the security obligations between the cloud provider and your organization.

Upgrade your PostgreSQL instance to the newest version with confidence! In this benchmarking blog post, we show you the performance improvements you can expect when upgrading from PostgreSQL 13 to 16.

When you need to run training models and complex analysis with batch jobs at scale, AWS batching can be a good solution. AWS provides a special service to perform a large number of computing operations effectively and without management overhead. This blog post covers the AWS Batch architecture and configuration principles for batch processing.

Depending on how you use it, ChatGPT can be safe. However, to protect yourself and your data, you should be aware of some security risks. These risks include concerns over privacy, shared data with third-party sources, copycat ChatGPT websites and apps and the tool’s tendency to generate misinformation.

The digital economy runs on APIs, the building blocks of the modern internet. From effortless mobile payments to convenient food deliveries, APIs work silently behind the scenes to power the applications we use every day. While APIs aren't new, their usage has exploded in recent years. Cloud computing, agile development practices, and the pandemic-driven surge in digital services have fueled this rapid growth.

Last week (19-July-2024), a significant IT outage occurred because CrowdStrike distributed a faulty update to its Falcon security software running on millions of computers using the Microsoft Windows operating system. This faulty update caused many of these computers to crash, which interrupted the operations of businesses across the globe.