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Redis

• Diagram
  • Redis Uber Caching

Diagram

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Syslog-Ng

Excellent well-established next generation syslog daemon written in C by Balabit.

• Key Points
• Syslog-ng Tuning & Tips
  • Match Log Rules Early
• Aggregation vs Splitting

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RabbitMQ

Popular Pub/Sub message queue with clustering.

Written in Erlang, invented by Pivotal.

• Key Points
• Ports

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Logging

Logging is crucial to being able to monitor, debug and analyze incidents.

Syslog is the standard unix system logging format, but there are more advanced packages with search filtering and analysis on top these days.

• Summary

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Data Formats

• Avro
• Parquet
• Arrow
• ORC
• CSV
• JSON

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Traefik

Open-source reverse proxy / load balancer designed specifically for dynamic, cloud-native environments.

Well-suited for microservices and containerized architectures such as Kubernetes.

• Key Points
• Routers

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Ruby

https://www.ruby-lang.org/en/

Dynamically typed open-source programming language known for its simplicity, flexibility, and focus on developer happiness.

Not my main language but it's an easy language to pick up so I've written a few bits and pieces over the years eg. check_puppet.rb.

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Etcd

Distributed coordination service, configuration key=value store.

The Etcd name means /etc distributed.

Alternatives: Zookeeper, Consul

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Trivy

https://github.com/aquasecurity/trivy

Security scanning CLI tool for vulnerabilities, leaked secrets and misconfigurations.

Scans:

• Files for secrets and configuration errors
• Docker images for CVE package vulnerabilities

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Grype

https://github.com/anchore/grype

Security scanning CLI tool for vulnerabilities, leaked secrets and misconfigurations.

Scans:

• Files for secrets and configuration errors
• Docker images for CVE package vulnerabilities