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How do you solve a problem like overcrowded company calendars? With a company dashboard!

FX
June 27, 2019

Why I built a company dashboard from scratch At Sqreen, we have an initiative called “Sqreenities.” A Sqreenity is basically a week where you step away from your normal day-to-day…

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Security

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Getting security to scale: learnings from modern app sec teams

Jb
June 6, 2019

Why are we writing this? In April, I visited the Bay Area from Paris for a week with some members of my team. While we were there, we sat down…

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Python

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How we built V8 natively on ARM

Émile-Hugo
May 9, 2019

When Amazon released their custom Graviton processor, we knew that ARM needed to be on our radar. Although clearly a first generation product, the investment required to build such a…

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Building a dynamic instrumentation agent for PHP

Jb
April 29, 2019

TL;DR PHP instrumentation can be handled in many ways. When we built our PHP agent at Sqreen we made a series of architectural decisions that enabled us to maximize performance,…

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Node.js

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How to debug memory leaks in a Node.js application on Heroku

Vladimir
April 18, 2019

Debugging memory leaks is rarely a piece of cake, especially when they only happen in production. The best way I’ve found to debug memory leaks in a Node.js application on…

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Security

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Introducing a new plugin for making your WordPress more secure

Maurice
April 11, 2019

At Sqreen, our mission is to democratize security. To me, that means making security accessible to everyone. We’re often thinking about different ways to do that, so today I wanted…

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How I switched from Ruby to Python

Benoit
January 30, 2019

This article is a personal experience shared by Benoit, Sqreen’s first engineer who worked on the Ruby agent and on the Python backend. Ruby, a love story Back in 2008…

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How Radix trees made blocking IPs 5000 times faster

Émile-Hugo
January 15, 2019

To most people, what you learn during a CS degree doesn’t help much in your day to day job. That being said, you sometimes run in a problem which could…

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Giving a voice to Jira

Oscar Baracos
December 3, 2018

The problem What if you could talk to Jira to create a ticket instead of having to interrupt what you’re doing to open a new tab, and painstakingly scroll through…

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Python

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Streaming data with Amazon Kinesis

Bartosz Telenczuk
September 10, 2018

Introduction At Sqreen we use Amazon Kinesis service to process data from our agents in near real-time. This kind of processing became recently popular with the appearance of general use…

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