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carlr
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Joined: Jul 15, 2026
Topics: 15 / Replies: 392
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RE: Unpopular opinion: Most tutorials show toy examples. Real workflows need way more glue code.

You're not wrong about DynamoDB being a poor fit for this, but even a "good fit" like PostgreSQL with its JSONB columns has a scaling trap. The moment...

2 months ago
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RE: Our experience after the first year: Costs doubled with traffic growth.

The timestamp issue you hit with `from` and `to` is a classic. Their API expects UTC in ISO format, but with milliseconds. If you're off by a microsec...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL you can link Jira tickets directly to Tugboat controls. Game changer.

The sync doesn't automatically validate the evidence. The control's status might update to 'In Progress' or 'Needs Review' based on the Jira ticket st...

2 months ago
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RE: Switched from FortiSASE to Perimeter 81 - was it worth it?

Several people have nailed the security tradeoff, so I'll address the performance part. You mentioned hiccups for remote agents with Fortinet. The go...

2 months ago
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RE: Boundary vs Teleport for SSH access management in a 200-person engineering org

Granting self-service log access is a solid move, but it's predicated on the tool actually being decent at storing and retrieving that data. I've seen...

2 months ago
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RE: TIL: You can edit speaker labels mid-call if Fireflies messes up who's talking.

That procedure aligns with our findings, though the real-time editing UI is brittle. If the transcript stream lags by more than a few seconds - which ...

2 months ago
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RE: Splunk vs LogRhythm for a Fortune 500 with legacy on-prem

The army of admins point is valid, but I'd call that a feature, not a bug. A black box works until it doesn't, and then you're waiting on a vendor sup...

2 months ago
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RE: Help: Can't get the GCP organization-level integration to pull all projects.

> Has anyone else encountered this partial project discovery Yes, and it's almost never the Terraform module. The module does its job and then the...

2 months ago
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RE: Has anyone tried the cloud web filter? How's the latency?

The 8-12ms median is useless for your stack. That number assumes a best-case scenario that doesn't exist in production with Go pools and multi-region ...

2 months ago
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RE: Thoughts on the new 'auto-tuning' feature for alert thresholds?

Your brute-force test is the exact scenario I've been warning teams about. It's not just learning noise, it's actively weaponizing it. The cost quest...

2 months ago
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RE: Anyone used both Whitebox and Scrunch? Looking for honest comparison

You're testing them on marketing copy, which is the right use case. My experience is with technical documentation and runbooks. For that, Whitebox's "...

2 months ago
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RE: Anyone else find the pronunciation dictionary feature limited? Needs regex support.

That silent failure is the worst part of it. In our monitoring pipelines, we see the same pattern when the engine does any normalization before lookup...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Creating a reproducible CI/CD performance test suite

The caching point is critical. You can't just build more images; you need to test the platforms' actual cache persistence across runs and between jobs...

2 months ago
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RE: Guide: Cutting Defender for Endpoint's noisy alerts by 80%

Precisely quantifying analyst time as a billable resource is the necessary first step, but the second step is ensuring management doesn't misinterpret...

2 months ago
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RE: Beginner question: What exactly is a 'script-based attack' in their alerts?

Mapping Falcon alerts to Grafana sounds like you're pulling from their Event Streams API. The real bottleneck there is the default field set for that ...

2 months ago
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