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Commissioning security professionals to attack your application under controlled conditions. What is at stake Testing finds issues automated scanners miss, and...
A machine-readable inventory of the components and dependencies that make up a piece of software. The key figures Formats standard formats exist for describing...
Following a single request as it passes through several services, queues and databases. Where most projects go wrong The usual mistakes: Tracing only the web la...
Targets for reliability, such as availability or latency, that define what good enough means. Why does it matter? Without objectives, every incident is judged e...
Adding and removing server capacity automatically in response to load. At a glance Metrics scaling can respond to CPU, queue depth or request rate Warm-up new i...
Copies of a database that serve read queries, reducing load on the primary database. What is at stake Most web applications read far more than they write, and r...
Reusing database connections across requests instead of opening a new one each time. The key figures Limits databases cap concurrent connections Pools maintain...
Systems that process uploaded images, video and documents into the formats an application needs. Where most projects go wrong The usual mistakes: Processing lar...
Understanding and controlling what infrastructure costs, and why bills change. Why does it matter? Cloud bills grow quietly through forgotten resources, oversiz...
Numeric measurements of application behavior, such as request rates, error rates and queue depths. At a glance Types counters, gauges and histograms serve diffe...
Collecting patient information through website forms in a way that meets federal health privacy rules. What is at stake Ordinary web forms and analytics tools w...
The web components of remote care, including scheduling, video consultations, consent and records access. The key figures Privacy video and messaging must prote...
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