AWS tips, new RBAC release, TLS/WR SSL certificate tests, and more!
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When was the last time you thought about the reliability of your cloud dependencies?
The biggest challenge with using cloud platforms and SaaS services is also its biggest strength: the provider controls everything. You don’t have to worry about maintaining the service yourself, but if it fails, there’s little you can do. However, if you’re not prepared for this failure, it can have cascading effects on your own services and applications. What can you do to keep your own services up and running even when your dependencies are down?
In this blog, we’ll look at how you can prepare for outages in your SaaS, FaaS, and other cloud-based services.
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Reliability testing and Chaos Engineering are essential for finding reliability risks and improving the resiliency of systems. Gremlin makes it easy to do so, but not every engineer needs access to the same experiments, systems, or services. That’s why we released customizable role-based access controls (RBAC), letting Gremlin customers control which actions your users can perform in Gremlin.
To learn how customizable RBAC works in Gremlin and what it means for your organization, check out this blog.
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Most organizations have a data encryption strategy, and nearly every web page is using HTTPS. But setting up encryption isn’t a one-time initiative. Over time, the certificates backing modern encryption expire and need to be replaced. While there are tools to automate this process, they’re not always reliable. Plus, what happens when your services rely on third-party services who are less diligent about rotating certificates?
In this blog, we’ll show you how to test your entire TLS certificate chain for expiring certificates using Gremlin. You’ll also see how to automate this process for all of your services so you can stay ahead of upcoming expiration dates.
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DATE:? September 12th TIME: 11am PT/2pm ET
Cloud platforms make it easier than ever to deploy massively scalable, distributed workloads, but this is a double-edged sword. There are reliability challenges unique to the cloud that didn’t exist before.
In this Office Hours session, we’ll show you how easy it is to onboard, test, and benchmark your AWS workloads with Gremlin’s latest release. You’ll learn how to use Gremlin to automatically find and add services, auto-create Health Checks, and find AWS-specific risks. You’ll also see our all-new Well-Architected Cloud Test Suite, and how to standardize reliability testing across teams.
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Migrating to the cloud usually means faster deployments and easier scalability, but it also means latency. Cloud applications communicate over distributed networks, and while these networks are fast, little bits of latency can quickly add up.
In this on-demand Office Hours, we’ll talk about the latency problem inherent to cloud computing and how it can impact your applications. We’ll discuss the network-centric design of cloud platforms, how to build applications to best use this design, and how to ensure your services are resilient and fault-tolerant.
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