How available is highly available? Hint: at least 99.9918% available
For cloud services, highly available is something we know we need. But when a vendor says their service is highly available, what does that mean? When we talk about SLAs, people talk in 9s. "Four nines" availability, or 99.95% available, is 52.6 minutes of...
What’s new in Bright Nov 2019
Bright Cache Statistics Bright caching statics are now exposed to the browser and viewable in the developer tools. The Bright API cache is a new feature in PHP clients [Drupal, WordPress] that replaces duplicate API calls with recent cached responses. This has...
What’s new in Bright Oct, 2019
Some new things that have come out of the Bright laboratory, that we've not had a chance to tell you about!: Internationalization Our WordPress client for Bright is now fully internationalized, with our first language pack in .... drumroll .... Swedish. Hurra! Kan...
Why only one hosting tier?
I'm always saying, we only offer "private managed VPS" for hosting. Simply put, we want secure environments or no environments. So I was interested to read this vulnerability report on how insecure shared hosting environments were hacked to reveal all users of the...
Why use the Bright Api?
Everything you wanted to now, but were afraid to ask, about why bother using the Bright API. https://bright.aura-software.com/why-use-the-bright-api/
GDRP is here!
That's right, everyone's favorite, GDRP is here. Bright, not to be left out on the party, has added the following capabilities: Anonymize Learner Data The easiest way to GDRP-ize your learner data is to not create and/or obfuscate it in the first place!...