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@brooksamybrook gave 🐾 to OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing , 2 months ago.

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Software Developer, RELIANOID

NEW RELEASE: RELIANOID 8.4 Enterprise Edition is here!

- We’re excited to announce the launch of RELIANOID 8.4, bringing greater performance, security, and automation to your Application Delivery Infrastructure. - What’s new in 8.4: - High-Performance Proxy – Now with HTTP/2 support and Hot Restart for seamless, zero-downtime updates. - Multi-Factor Aut..

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OpenTelemetry Spans Explained: Deconstructing Distributed Tracing

Understand how OpenTelemetry Spans capture, connect, and explain every operation in your distributed system for deeper visibility.

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🔁 In case you missed it:Incident Response in 2025: Lessons Learned

🔁 In case you missed it: Our August blog post — “Incident Response in 2025: Lessons Learned” — looks back at a summer marked by major cyber incidents, from supply chain disruptions to large-scale data breaches. Discover how AI-driven detection, faster response strategies, and new resilience tools ar..

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Top 9 APM Tools for Node.js Performance Monitoring

Compare top APM tools for Node.js — from open-source options to enterprise-grade platforms — and choose the best fit for your stack.

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Top 11 Ruby APM Tools for 2025: A Performance-Driven Selection

Explore the top Ruby APM tools for 2025 — from open-source to enterprise — to monitor, trace, and optimize your app’s performance.

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@laura_garcia shared a post, 2 months ago

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🔐 Defense-in-depth is no longer a theory—it's a necessity in industrial networks.

In our latest article, we explore how industrial sectors are implementing network segmentation and microsegmentation to protect critical systems. From vertical and horizontal segmentation models to modern OT firewalls and IoT gateways, we break down the architectures and tools driving zero-trust in ..

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🌍 RELIANOID at DevOpsDays Almaty 2025 | 24 October | Almaty, Kazakhstan

DevOpsDays — a global series of technical conferences uniting software development and IT operations professionals — is coming to Almaty on 24 October 2025! 🎉 This event will gather local and international experts, engineers, and businesses to share insights, drive collaboration, and grow the DevOp..

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🚨 Cyberattack on Qantas exposed growing threats to aviation

A few months ago, up to 6 million customers were affected through a third-party data breach — reportedly linked to Scattered Spider, a group notorious for social engineering and supply chain attacks. 🔍 The takeaway? The weakest link often lies outside the organization. ✈️ At RELIANOID, we helped air..

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AWS Outage: A Single Cloud Region Shouldn’t Take Down the World. But It Did.

#downtim... #dns #us-east... #outage #aws

A major AWS outage disrupted high-profile services like Amazon, Snapchat, and Disney+, affecting over 70 AWS services and causing widespread operational issues.

Flask is an open-source web framework written in Python and created by Armin Ronacher in 2010. It is known as a microframework, not because it is weak or incomplete, but because it provides only the essential building blocks for developing web applications. Its core focuses on handling HTTP requests, defining routes, and rendering templates, while leaving decisions about databases, authentication, form handling, and other components to the developer. This minimalistic design makes Flask lightweight, flexible, and easy to learn, but also powerful enough to support complex systems when extended with the right tools.

At the heart of Flask are two libraries: Werkzeug, which is a WSGI utility library that handles the low-level details of communication between web servers and applications, and Jinja2, a templating engine that allows developers to write dynamic HTML pages with embedded Python logic. By combining these two, Flask provides a clean and pythonic way to create web applications without imposing strict architectural patterns.

One of the defining characteristics of Flask is its explicitness. Unlike larger frameworks such as Django, Flask does not try to hide complexity behind layers of abstraction or dictate how a project should be structured. Instead, it gives developers complete control over how they organize their code and which tools they integrate. This explicit nature makes applications easier to reason about and gives teams the freedom to design solutions that match their exact needs. At the same time, Flask benefits from a vast ecosystem of extensions contributed by the community. These extensions cover areas such as database integration through SQLAlchemy, user session and authentication management, form validation with CSRF protection, and database migration handling. This modular approach means a developer can start with a very simple application and gradually add only the pieces they require, avoiding the overhead of unused components.

Flask is also widely appreciated for its simplicity and approachability. Many developers write their first web application in Flask because the learning curve is gentle, the documentation is clear, and the framework itself avoids unnecessary complexity. It is particularly well suited for building prototypes, REST APIs, microservices, or small to medium-sized web applications. At the same time, production-grade deployments are supported by running Flask applications on WSGI servers such as Gunicorn or uWSGI, since the development server included with Flask is intended only for testing and debugging.

The strengths of Flask lie in its minimalism, flexibility, and extensibility. It gives developers the freedom to assemble their application architecture, choose their own libraries, and maintain tight control over how things work under the hood. This is attractive to experienced engineers who dislike being boxed in by heavy frameworks. However, the same freedom can become a limitation. Flask does not include features like an ORM, admin interface, or built-in authentication system, which means teams working on very large applications must take on more responsibility for enforcing patterns and maintaining consistency. In situations where a project requires an opinionated, all-in-one solution, Django or another full-stack framework may be a better fit.

In practice, Flask has grown far beyond its initial positioning as a lightweight tool. It has been used by startups for rapid prototypes and by large companies for production systems. Its design philosophy—keep the core simple, make extensions easy, and let developers decide—continues to attract both beginners and professionals. This balance between simplicity and power has made Flask one of the most enduring and widely used Python web frameworks.

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