Kubernetes is one of the hottest open-source projects these days. It’s a production-grade container orchestration system, inspired by Google’s own <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes.html" target="_blank">Borg</a> and…

The engineering team for social media service LinkedIn first launched Gobblin in 2014 as a universal data ingestion framework for offline big data, running on Hadoop in MapReduce mode. As new capabilities were added to enable the framework to support a spectrum…

Posts and writings by Amit Saha

With preconnect hints, you can reduce request latency and make your site faster.

Meltdown breaks the fundamental isolation between user applications and the OS. In this post, we run MongoDB Meltdown tests on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean.

When I started writing pg_chameleon I had in mind a tool making simple to migrate from different dbms engines to PostgreSQL.
The name was inspired by the Culture Club’s Karma chameleon song which suggested me the idea of a tool capable to move data between…

I’ve been talking about scalability for servers and other cloud resources for a very long time! Back in 2006, I wrote “This is the new world of scalable, on-demand web services. Pay for what you need and use, and not a byte more.” Shortly after we launched…

Recently, we’ve been working with clients on setting up highly available (HA) Kubernetes clusters. More specifically, we’ve been working on constructing automated installers for HA Kubernetes clusters, basically providing an automated “single-click” path…

In this guide, we will talk about the components of monitoring systems and how to use them to implement your monitoring strategy. We will the basic responsib…

I've recently become obsessed with the sheer amount of development activity happening on sites like GitHub. As a first project on working with this data, I thought it would be fun to rank all the programming languages by counting how many people on GitHub…

We’re grateful for this guest post from Tim Wilde! You can find the source code for the examples he uses in his github repo. Strings are where data go to die There you go; I said it. How often have you found yourself contemplating some hair-brained regex…

Streaming architectures for data sets that never end.

Intro My previous post took off far more than I expected, so I thought I’d write another piece on less well-known bash features. As I said before, because I felt bash is an often-used (and un…

Chaos Engineering, and fault injection in particular, is all the rage. Breaking things on purpose, rather than “by accident”, is what the cool kids do these days. It’s what they like to speak about…

Any Kubernetes production environment will rely heavily on logs. Using built-in Kubernetes capabilities along with some additional data collection tools, you can easily automate log collection and aggregation for ongoing analysis of your Kubernetes clusters.…

Most of the time you are wondering what is happening inside your application and there are enough monitoring apps on the market that one of them should fulfill your needs. However, I decided to go for a DIY approach, as it gives you a better understanding…

Alternative Kubernetes UI. Contribute to smpio/kubernator development by creating an account on GitHub.

In today’s technology world, Big Data is a hot IT buzzword. To mitigate the complexity in processing large volumes of data, Apache developed Hadoop – a reliable, scalable and distributed computing framework. Read on to learn more.

Linuxkit is one of the tools developed by Docker and Docker community. I recently created a video “An Overall View On Docker & Its…

In this tutorial, we will go over how to set up an internal DNS server, using the BIND name server software (BIND9) on Ubuntu 14.04, that can be used by your…