Engineering

How we managed Aurora Serverless V2 Idle connections in RDS Proxy and saved RDS costs by 50%
Introduction In a recent migration from a standard RDS DB instance to Aurora RDS PostgreSQL Serverless V2, we encountered an unexpected issue. A significant and unexplained increase in database connections.... The post ...

How we managed Aurora Serverless V2 Idle connections in RDS Proxy and saved RDS costs by 50%
The post How we managed Aurora Serverless V2 Idle connections in RDS Proxy and saved RDS costs by 50% appeared first on Strobes Security ...

How DataDome Created a Custom Metrics Exporter for GitHub Actions
Find out how DataDome created a custom Prometheus metrics exporter for the infrastructure behind GitHubs's continuous deployment & integration solution, GitHub Actions ...

Better Security and Performance For Free? Why PostgreSQL is Amazing
Upgrade your PostgreSQL instance to the newest version with confidence! In this benchmarking blog post, we show you the performance improvements you can expect when upgrading from PostgreSQL 13 to 16 ...

Year in Review: GitGuardian’s Own Security Team
GitGuardian's Lead security engineer, Kayssar Daher, shares his team's successes, challenges, and results of the past year ...

Streamlining CLI Authentication: Implementing OAuth Login in Python
When building an application that requires user authentication, implementing a secure login flow is critical. In this article, we'll walk through how we created a robust OAuth login flow for ggshield, our ...

Bringing a Better (and Smarter) Samaritan to Secure the Open Source
GitGuardian's Confidence Scorer, a machine-learning model, is being rolled out. Learn how it advances secret detection on GitHub and drives impactful developer alerts ...

Small Team, Big Wins: Why Size Doesn’t Matter for Self-Hosted
Few companies take on the challenge of offering a self-hosted option to their customers. GitGuardian has embraced this endeavor for the past three years, encountering numerous challenges along the way, but also ...

Aembit Launches Terraform Provider to Enable Infrastructure as Code
3 min read This will enable DevOps teams to better streamline workload access controls, ensuring consistent, secure deployments across environments. The post Aembit Launches Terraform Provider to Enable Infrastructure as Code appeared ...

DataDome Releases Ruby Server-Side Integration
Our new Ruby server-side integration is the latest in a range of 50+ integrations that ensure DataDome stops bad bots & fraud on any infrastructure ...