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23. 12. 2024 Damiano Chini APM, Development, Log-SIEM, NetEye

Continuous Profiling with NetEye – Elastic Universal Profiling

Elastic 8.16, which comes with NetEye 4.39, made Elastic Universal Profiling generally available for self-hosted installations. This means that NetEye SIEM installations will now be able to take advantage of the continuous profiling solution by Elastic. In this blogpost we’ll explain what you can achieve with continuous profiling how you can configure it in NetEye….

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20. 12. 2024 Alessandra Castiglioni Atlassian, Development

Smart Confluence: Automating Actions Based on Text Content

In today’s fast-paced work environment, efficiency is paramount. Yet many Confluence users are missing out on a powerful time-saving feature: automation. Often overlooked, Confluence automation offers a robust toolkit to simplify workflows and improve collaboration among teams. This article looks at one of the most versatile aspects of Confluence automation: triggering actions based on text…

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20. 12. 2024 Davide Sbetti Automation, Development, NetEye

When Less is More: NetEye Update and Upgrade Checkpoints

Hello everyone! Today, I’d like to briefly discuss an improvement to the update and upgrade procedures that we’ve started to adopt with NetEye 4.39! What we wanted to improve One aspect that made quite an impact was that whenever the update or upgrade procedure stopped, even for legitimate reasons such as rpmnew or rpmsave files,…

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19. 12. 2024 Gabriele Bocchi Automation, Development, NetEye

NetEye Install and Upgrades: Moving to a Parallel Architecture

Hello everyone! Today, I’d like to share an exciting improvement we’ve made to the installation and upgrade procedures in NetEye, introducing a faster and more efficient parallel architecture! Why Modernize the Installation and Upgrade Processes? At Würth Phoenix, we strive to make NetEye not only powerful but also highly efficient and reliable for our users….

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19. 12. 2024 Luigi Miazzo Automation, Development, DevOps

Embracing Idempotency: Writing Your Own Ansible Collection – From Code to Tests

Ansible is a powerful automation tool that simplifies the configuration, deployment, and management of systems. At its heart lies the concept of idempotency — the guarantee that applying the same operation any number of times will yield the same result. Writing your own Ansible collection can unlock a new level of customization and control for…

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18. 12. 2024 Charles Callaway Documentation

Explaining Your Content with Complex Animations, Part 2

Hi again! At the end of my last blog I left you hanging. I promised some concrete examples of useful animations you could do in-house, using just math. And here I am, examples in hand! Although they could be finished animations in specific situations, they’re more likely to be parts of a larger picture, so…

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18. 12. 2024 Mattia Codato Automation, Development, DevOps

GitOps: Push vs Pull? Choosing the Right Approach for Production Deployments

Starting a new project is often an opportunity to reevaluate established practices. In our case, deploying a containerized application to production with OpenShift led us to revisit our GitOps strategy. Using ArgoCD as our GitOps tool raised a fundamental question: What is the best way to move changes into production—push or pull? Understanding Push and…

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16. 12. 2024 Alessandro Valentini Development, DevOps

NetEye and RHUI Repositories

Recently we had to provision a couple of NetEye machines on Azure for production purposes. Our procedure essentially creates a RedHat 8.10 VM starting with an official RedHat image, and adds the NetEye repositories to install the required software. This procedure is what we usually follow to create training environments, but these machines are usually…

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26. 11. 2024 Valentina Da Rold Atlassian, Development, UI

How to Customize Your Barcode Scanning App (Part 2)

As outlined in Part 1 of this post, I’ll now provide key tips for efficiently customizing the Stratacom Barcode Scanning app. This will involve creating objects and setting up object pickers, thus allowing barcode scans to dynamically connect with and retrieve data from your CMDB. By the end of this post, you’ll have a clear…

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26. 11. 2024 Valentina Da Rold Atlassian, Development, UI, UX

How to Customize Your Barcode Scanning App (Part 1)

As presented in my previous blog post, we identified an opportunity to enhance a project of one of our customers by integrating Stratacom’s Barcode Scanning Solution. This tool is designed to seamlessly integrate with Jira, enabling rapid and precise barcode scanning directly into workflows. By implementing this solution, we’ll enhance operational efficiency, improve data accuracy,…

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18. 11. 2024 Lorenzo Bevilacqua Development, Threat Intelligence

Scaling SATAYO: OSINT Research with Apache Airflow

Originally developed as a proof of concept, SATAYO was designed to gather and analyze OSINT (Open Source Intelligence) data on a single machine. Initially, the platform functioned as a single-threaded script, and scaling was only considered later. As SATAYO’s capabilities evolved to meet the needs of more clients and monitor a greater number of domains,…

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31. 10. 2024 Charles Callaway Documentation

Explaining Your Content with Complex Animations, Part 1

Hello budget videographers and user guide writers! Have you ever looked on with envy at some of those fancy animations in online videos and wondered “How can I do that?” Well, I can’t solve all your problems, but I can give you some examples, pointers and resources to get you started. For your videos you…

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30. 10. 2024 Oscar Zambotti Automation, Development, Documentation

The OpenAPI Tales: A New Dawn

When we talk about APIs, we developers are generally biased, and focus on how they’re implemented technically – how they work, how they integrate into larger systems – and we settle for that. But there’s a valuable part of API development that often gets overlooked: creating their descriptions. This practice tends to be undervalued, so…

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29. 10. 2024 Alessandro Taufer Development, DevOps

Is Signing git Commits Really Useful?

Securing your codebase is a fundamental step in guaranteeing the integrity of your software: if the access to your git commits is compromised, so is your whole supply chain. That’s the reason why  almost every git hosting service has implemented a strong authentication system to protect their users from unauthorized access. The question naturally arises…

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19. 09. 2024 Davide Gallo Development, DevOps

Ansible Development, Part 1.5: Building an Execution Environment in a Pipeline (CI/CD)

Hello everyone, I’m back to discuss Ansible and Ansible Execution Environments. In my previous blog, we talked about why and how execution environments are critical for a successful Ansible implementation. I hope my guide was easy to follow, but as you may have noticed, the process requires a significant amount of manual effort to keep…

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