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@anjali shared a link, 4 months, 3 weeks ago

Customer Marketing Manager, Last9

OTel Updates: Unroll Processor Now in Collector Contrib

The OTel unroll processor splits bundled log records into individual events. Now in Collector Contrib v0.137.0 for VPC and CloudWatch logs.

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@laura_garcia shared a post, 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Software Developer, RELIANOID

Tesco’s latest outage is a reminder: uptime IS the customer experience.

Shoppers across the UK faced checkout failures, broken order updates, and Clubcard access issues as Tesco’s digital platforms suffered “intermittent” instability. In modern retail, even brief disruptions damage trust, loyalty, and sales. At RELIANOID, we help retailers stay resilient with intelligen..

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@anjali shared a link, 4 months, 4 weeks ago

Customer Marketing Manager, Last9

Instrumentation: Getting Signals In

See how instrumentation in OpenTelemetry helps track app issues, know the difference between auto and manual methods, and when to use them.

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@devopslinks added a new tool Syft , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

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@kaptain added a new tool KubeLinter , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

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@devopslinks added a new tool Grype , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

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@kaptain added a new tool Hadolint , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

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@varbear added a new tool Bandit , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

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@devopslinks added a new tool JFrog Xray , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

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@devopslinks added a new tool OWASP Dependency-Check , 4 months, 4 weeks ago.

Magika is an open-source file type identification engine developed by Google that uses machine learning instead of traditional signature-based heuristics. Unlike classic tools such as file, which rely on magic bytes and handcrafted rules, Magika analyzes file content holistically using a trained model to infer the true file type.

It is designed to be both highly accurate and extremely fast, capable of classifying files in milliseconds. Magika excels at detecting edge cases where file extensions are incorrect, intentionally spoofed, or absent altogether. This makes it particularly valuable for security scanning, malware analysis, digital forensics, and large-scale content ingestion pipelines.

Magika supports hundreds of file formats, including programming languages, configuration files, documents, archives, executables, media formats, and data files. It is available as a Python library, a CLI, and integrates cleanly into automated workflows. The project is maintained by Google and released under an open-source license, making it suitable for both enterprise and research use.

Magika is commonly used in scenarios such as:

- Secure file uploads and content validation
- Malware detection and sandboxing pipelines
- Code repository scanning
- Data lake ingestion and classification
- Digital forensics and incident response