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Understanding JSON Formats: JSON, JSONL, NDJSON, and More
September 1, 2025
8 min read
by CertVanta Team
JSONdata formatsAPI designdata processing+1

Explore different JSON formats including JSON Lines (JSONL), Newline Delimited JSON (NDJSON), and JSON Streams with practical examples and use cases.

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Paginated vs. Bulk API Calls: Performance, Cost, and Reliability Trade‑offs
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August 30, 2025
14 min read
API DesignPerformancePagination+3

Should you fetch many results at once or smaller batches at a time? A practical guide to the CPU, memory, network, and cloud-cost trade‑offs of paginated vs. one-shot API calls—with actionable rules of thumb.

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Release Engineering Playbook: Blue/Green, Canary, and Feature Rollouts
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August 30, 2025
16 min read
Release EngineeringDevOpsBlue-Green Deployments+4

Master blue/green, canary, and rolling deployment strategies. Learn how to integrate automated smoke tests, release gates, feature flags, and rollback techniques for safer, faster releases.

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Taming Toil: Eliminating Repetitive Work to Scale SRE Teams
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August 28, 2025
18 min read
ToilDevOpsSRE+3

Toil kills engineering velocity and burns out teams. Learn how to measure, reduce, and automate toil in SRE and DevOps environments — with actionable best practices, anti-patterns, and case studies.

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The Pragmatic SRE Guide to SLOs: From Business Goals to Error Budgets
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August 24, 2025
15 min read
SREDevOpsReliability+4

Go beyond uptime percentages—learn how to map business goals into user-centric SLOs, define error budgets, and set up actionable alerting with real-world examples.

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Production-Grade Container Security: From Base Images to Runtime Controls
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August 21, 2025
15 min read
Container SecurityDevSecOpsKubernetes+4

Containers make shipping code faster, but they also introduce hidden risks. Learn how to secure images, enforce policies, detect escapes, and monitor runtime behavior with modern tooling.

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Observability That Reduces Pager Fatigue
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August 18, 2025
13 min read
SREDevOpsObservability+4

Stop drowning in alerts. Learn how to design effective observability strategies using golden signals, RED vs USE methods, smarter alerting practices, and persona-driven dashboards that reduce pager fatigue.

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Secure the Supply Chain: SBOMs, Provenance, and Sigstore in CI/CD
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August 16, 2025
16 min read
Supply Chain SecurityCI/CDDevSecOps+5

Protect your software supply chain in CI/CD pipelines with SBOMs, Sigstore, provenance checks, and policy enforcement. Learn practical strategies to mitigate dependency-based attacks.

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Real-Time Monitoring with eBPF: Low-Overhead Insights for Linux & K8s
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August 14, 2025
15 min read
eBPFObservabilityKubernetes+5

eBPF is reshaping observability by enabling low-overhead, high-fidelity monitoring directly from the Linux kernel. Learn how it works, practical use cases, and tooling for real-time insights.

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Kubernetes Production Readiness Checklist
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August 12, 2025
14 min read
KubernetesDevOpsSRE+4

A practical checklist to ensure your Kubernetes clusters are production-ready. Covering security, reliability, operational safeguards, observability, and common pitfalls every team should avoid.

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Terraform at Scale: Module Design, State Strategies, and Drift Detection
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August 11, 2025
17 min read
TerraformDevOpsInfrastructure as Code+4

Scaling Terraform across teams and environments is challenging. Learn how to design reusable modules, manage state effectively, detect drift early, and integrate Terraform into CI/CD pipelines.

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Scaling Feature Flags Without Regrets: Governance, Drift, and Tech Debt
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August 9, 2025
14 min read
Feature FlagsDevOpsGovernance+4

Learn how to manage feature flags at scale without introducing reliability issues or tech debt. Covers lifecycle management, observability, tooling, and governance strategies.

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Postmortem to Product: Turning Incidents into Roadmap & SLO Changes
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August 7, 2025
16 min read
PostmortemsDevOpsSRE+4

Incidents are wasted if they don’t drive change. Learn how to run effective postmortems, convert findings into roadmap items, revisit SLOs, and improve reliability across teams.

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Secrets Management in 2025: Vault, KMS, and Sidecars Compared
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August 5, 2025
15 min read
Secrets ManagementSecurityVault+4

A deep dive into modern secrets management strategies: Vault, KMS, and sidecar-based approaches. Learn best practices, avoid pitfalls, and secure your systems without sacrificing velocity.

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Multi-Region Architectures: Active-Active Without the Headaches
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August 3, 2025
17 min read
Multi-RegionCloud ArchitectureGlobal Load Balancing+3

Designing multi-region architectures is hard. Learn practical strategies for active-active, database replication, global routing, and failover testing — with a real SaaS scaling case study.

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Incident Command for Startups
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July 31, 2025
12 min read
SREIncident ManagementDevOps+3

Even small teams need an incident response process. Learn how to set up lightweight incident command roles, handle outages smoothly, run blameless postmortems, and automate tooling for startups.

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CI/CD at Scale: Designing Fast, Flaky-Resistant Pipelines
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July 29, 2025
12 min read
DevOpsCI/CDGitLab+6

Build CI/CD pipelines that scale. Learn how to design faster builds, reduce test flakiness, add security gates, and deploy confidently without slowing down engineering teams.

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Edge Compute with CDNs: Caching, Workers, and Safe Gradual Rollouts
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July 24, 2025
14 min read
Edge ComputeCDNPerformance+4

Modern apps rely on edge compute and CDN workers for speed, personalization, and safe deployments. Learn practical strategies for caching, gradual rollouts, and real-world use cases.

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AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) — Complete Study Guide
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July 22, 2025
28 min read
AWSCertificationSolutions Architect+2

Prepare for the AWS Certified Solutions Architect — Associate (SAA-C03) exam with CertVanta's complete study guide. Includes a structured roadmap, exam breakdown, key AWS services, and recommended CertVanta resources.

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Database Reliability 101: Backups, PITR, and Disaster Recovery Drills
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July 17, 2025
15 min read
Database ReliabilityBackupsPITR+4

Learn how to design reliable database systems with backups, point-in-time recovery, and cross-region disaster recovery drills. Improve your RPO, RTO, and resilience strategies.

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AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) — Complete Study Guide
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July 15, 2025
25 min read
AWSCertificationCloud Practitioner+3

Prepare for the AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner (CLF-C02) exam with CertVanta's complete study guide. Includes a 4-week roadmap, hands-on projects, key services, practice tips, and recommended CertVanta resources.

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Chaos Engineering for Realists: Safe Experiments You Can Run This Quarter
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July 11, 2025
14 min read
Chaos EngineeringReliabilityDevOps+4

Chaos engineering isn't about breaking production blindly. Learn safe, structured experiments you can run today to improve reliability, validate recovery plans, and strengthen SLOs.

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GitOps vs. ClickOps: Choosing the Right Deployment Workflow
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July 9, 2025
13 min read
GitOpsDevOpsArgoCD+5

Should you deploy using GitOps or ClickOps? Learn the trade-offs, best practices, and hybrid strategies to balance velocity, reliability, and auditability.

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Cost-Aware SRE: FinOps Practices Without Sacrificing Reliability
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July 5, 2025
14 min read
SREDevOpsFinOps+4

Learn how Site Reliability Engineers can balance cloud costs with reliability goals using FinOps strategies, autoscaling optimizations, and observability-driven insights.

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Building an On-Call Program People Don’t Dread
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July 3, 2025
15 min read
On-CallIncident ResponseDevOps+4

On-call shouldn’t mean burnout. Learn how to design humane schedules, reduce noisy alerts, create better runbooks, and build a blameless on-call culture engineers actually trust.

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