Tied up in a recent AWS announcement about a new EC2 high-end instance type (the C5) is a strong suggestion that Amazon’s cloud computing…

Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control theory, has been generating attention for one simple reason: it describes a set of problems that more…

We recently experienced two major memory issues that caused our node.js server to crash at critical moments. We quickly learned how to buy…

'Unknown persons' spin up 244 VMs at cost of $64k. Whoops

Our systems suffer many insults when they contact the real
world. Flaky inputs, unreliable networks, and misbehaving users, to
name just a few. As …

Deploying Cassandra cluster to AWS using Terraform and AWS Lambda

This is a guide on how to setup OpenFaaS — Serverless Functions Made Simple on Kubernetes 1.8 or later with minikube. minikube is a…

This is part 2 of a 3 part primer for IT professionals in a hurry. We will be discussing the minimum products and requirements for…

Last summer I started learning about information security and hacking. Over the last year I’ve played in various wargames, capture the flag and penetration testing simulations, continuously improving my hacking skills and learning new things about ‘how to…

Track Kubernetes set up alerts, detect & resolve issues faster with the Prometheus toolkit. This is a popular solution for monitoring Kubernetes cluster for Spinnaker users.

BuildKit is a new project under the Moby umbrella for building and packaging software using containers. It’s a new codebase meant to…

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Monitoring & troubleshooting issues in microservices-based applications can be challenging & the APM challenges are similar to Docker. AppInternals can help

We launched the AWS Cost Explorer a couple of years ago in order to allow you to track, allocate, and manage your AWS costs. The response to that launch, and to additions that we have made since then, has been very positive. However our customers are, as…

Every effective Incident Response team needs the ability to “ask a question” to a single or multiple hosts in the fleet and receive timely…

Today marks a milestone for Red Hat Enterprise Linux with the addition of a new architecture to our list of fully supported platforms. Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM is a part of our multi-architecture strategy and the culmination of a multi-year collaboration…

Sometimes you just need to send a lot of emails, and services that make it really simple can get too expensive. Here is how we sent an e-mail to all our users and what we learnt.

http://traffic.libsyn.com/sedaily/ServerlessEvents.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | Download In an event driven application, each component of application logic emits events, which other parts of the application respond to. We have examined this pattern in…

I doubt there has ever been a time when software architecture was seen as a raging success. The “three-tier architecture” of the web has held up extremely well and is an excellent place for many people to start. The “12 Factor App” approach has encouraged…

At DockerCon Europe, we announced that the next release of Docker Enterprise Edition (Docker EE) would include Kubernetes integration. We’re really excited about bringing Kubernetes to our customer base and continuing to increase our involvement within the…