Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML…
Experience as an LFX Mentee for Chaos Mesh
Mentorship guest post by Chunxu Zhang I am a graduate student studying software engineering at Nanjing University. My research focuses on DevOps, which has intrinsic connections with chaos engineering and observability. To get involved in the…
CNCF-cultivated OpenMetrics becomes an incubating project
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept OpenMetrics as a CNCF incubating project. OpenMetrics creates an open standard for transmitting cloud-native metrics at scale. It acts as an open standard for Prometheus and…
CNCF End User Lounge: Salt Security
In 2020, Salt Security started to grow quickly and our platform needed to scale fast. That led to a few challenges including backward compatibility issues. To address that we moved to gRPC but, since load balancing…
Hunting API traffic anomalies with minimal downtime The Salt Security platform delivers the simplest, most comprehensive, and most effective API security by tapping AI and big data. The platform works by continuously monitoring and learning from…
Implementing chaos engineering in K8s: chaos mesh principle analysis and control plane development
Guest post originally published on PingCAP‘s blog by Mayo Cream Chaos Mesh is an open-source, cloud-native Chaos Engineering platform built on Kubernetes (K8s) custom resource definitions (CRDs). Chaos Mesh can simulate various types of faults and has…
LitmusChaos becomes a CNCF incubating project
LitmusChaos is an open source chaos engineering platform that enables teams to identify weaknesses and potential outages in infrastructures by inducing chaos tests in a controlled way. Chaos engineering verifies the resilience of business services and…
Benchmarking Linkerd and Istio: 2021 redux
Guest post originally published on Linkerd’s blog by William Morgan Earlier this year, we published Linkerd vs Istio benchmarks comparing the performance and resource consumption of the two service meshes on a simple microservice application under various levels…
Improving platform efficiency, reliability, and performance in one week with Linkerd
Guest post by Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir, Platform Team at Salt Security At Salt Security, we pioneered API security. Purpose-built to protect APIs across their entire life cycle, the Salt platform enables our customers to…
Discover how GitLab uses Falco to detect abnormal behavior in code dependencies
Project post originally published on the Falco Blog by Nate Magee and Vicente J. Jiménez Miras GitLab leverages Falco to detect software supply chain attacks with Package Hunter GitLab covers the entire software development lifecycle in a…