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Critical or non-critical: the failure contract of ECS daemons

Every container cluster carries a layer of software nobody asked for and everybody needs: the log shipper, the EDR agent, the metrics exporter, the mesh proxy.

  • Amazon introduces non-critical daemons in ECS Managed Daemons.
  • Critical logging and security agents now have a 'critical' parameter.
  • Non-critical daemons can 'fail open' to maintain instance activity.

Cacti, LibreNMS, Icinga and Observium: measuring the monitoring tier nobody replaces

Cacti, LibreNMS, Icinga and Observium: measuring the monitoring tier nobody replaces Monitoring platforms accumulate. They are installed by an engineer who has since moved teams, they hold credentials…

  • Cacti and LibreNMS dominate monitoring platforms with 17,703 and 15,614 instances respectively
  • Icinga and Observium have fewer instances, indicating smaller user bases
  • All monitoring platforms store sensitive credentials, making them prime attack targets

Running, Saving, and Reopening a Parameterized DynamoDB PartiQL SELECT in Tables

Introduction When I reuse a database query, I want the query structure to stay consistent while the input value can change.

  • Demonstrated parameterized DynamoDB PartiQL SELECT using ServerlessCreed Tables GUI.
  • Used table "tablebulk" with 120 deterministic items, 30 with Status = BULKEDITED.
  • Saved parameterized template, query preserved across restarts of Tables.

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