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Pragmatic AWS: 4 Ideas for using EC2 Tags
At Sumo Logic, we use Amazon Web Services (AWS) for everything. Our product, as well as all our internal infrastructure live in AWS. In this series of posts, we’ll share some useful practices around...
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Sumo Logic at AWS Big Data Boston
I recently represented Sumo Logic at the AWS Big Data conference in Boston. It was a great show, very well-attended. Sumo Logic was one of the few vendors invited to participate. During the...
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Pragmatic AWS: Data Destroying Drones
As we evolve our service, we occasionally delete EBS (Elastic Block Store) volumes. This releases the disk space back to AWS to be assigned to another customer. As a security precaution, we have...
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Pragmatic AWS: Principle of Least Privilege with IAM
Lock and Chain - by Martin Magdalene One of the basic principles in information security is the Principle of Least Privilege. The idea is simple: give every user/process/system the minimal amount of...
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Security-Gain without Security-Pain
As Joan mentioned, we use SaaS products a lot here at Sumo Logic. On an average day, I log into sites on the internet tens or even hundreds of times, supplying a username and password each time. The...
View ArticlePragmatic AWS: 3 Tips to enhance the AWS SDK with Scala
At Sumo Logic, most backend code is written in Scala. Scala is a newer JVM (Java Virtual Machine) language created in 2001 by Martin Odersky, who also co-founded our Greylock sister company, TypeSafe....
View ArticleAWS re:Invent – The future is now
This past week, several of us had the pleasure of attending Amazon Web Service’s inaugural re:Invent conference in Las Vegas. In the weeks leading up to the conference, it wasn’t fully obvious to me...
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Why I joined Sumo Logic and Moved to Silicon Valley
We make hundreds of decisions every day, mostly small ones, that are just part of life’s ebb and flow. And then there are the big decisions that don’t merely create ripples in the flow of your life -...
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Pardon me, have you got data about machine data?
I’m glad you ask, I just might. In fact, we started collecting data about machine data some 9 months ago when we participated at the AWS Big Data conference in Boston. Since then we continued...
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Universal Collection of Machine Data
Customers love flexibility, especially if that flexibility drives additional business value. In that vein, today we announced an expansion of our log data collection capabilities with our hosted HTTPS...
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Sumo Logic Application for AWS CloudTrail
Cloud is opaque One of the biggest adoption barriers of SaaS, PaaS, and IaaS is the opaqueness and lack of visibility into changes and activities that affect cloud infrastructure. While running an...
View ArticleSumo Logic Deployment Infrastructure and Practices
Introduction Here at Sumo Logic, we run a log management service that ingests and indexes many terabytes of data a day; our customers then use our service to query and analyze all of this data....
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AWS Elastic Load Balancing – New Visibility Into Your AWS Load Balancers
After the successful launch of the Sumo Logic Application for AWS CloudTrail last November and with numerous customers now using this application, we were really excited to work again on a new logging...
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Mitigating the Heartbleed Vulnerability
By now, you have likely read about the security vulnerability known as the Heartbleed bug. It is a vulnerability in the widespread OpenSSL library. It allows stealing the information protected, under...
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Sumo Logic, ServiceNow and the Future of Event Management
Today’s reality is that companies have to deal with disjointed systems when it comes to detecting, investigating and remediating issues in their infrastructure. Compound that with the exponential...
View ArticleWhy You Should Never Catch Throwable In Scala
Scala is a subtle beast and you should heed its warnings. Most Scala and Java programmers have heard that catching Throwable, a superclass of all exceptions, is evil and patterns like the following...
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Building Scala at Scale
The Scala compiler can be brutally slow. The community has a love-hate relationship with it. Love means “Yes, scalac is slow”. Hate means, “Scala — 1★ Would Not Program Again”. It’s hard to go a week...
View ArticleSequoia Joins The Team and Eight Lessons of a First Time CEO
I originally envisioned this blog as a way to discuss our recent $30 million funding, led by our latest investor, Sequoia Capital, with full participation from Greylock, Sutter Hill and Accel. I’ve...
View ArticleDifferentiators
As our growth has accelerated over the past few quarters, we’ve gained additional insights into what customers care about and why they choose us for machine data analytics. In addition, our...
View ArticleOur Help? It’s in the Cloud.
I like to fashion myself as a lower-level Cloud evangelist. I’m amazed at the opportunities the Cloud has afforded me both professionally and personally in the past four or five years. I tend to run...
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