AWS Fargate is the next generation of serverless computing from Amazon. Fargate lets users build and deploy containerized applications without having to manage any infrastructure. This is great for...

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In this post, I try to setup a Kubernetes cluster and make sense of the basic types of objects that Kubernetes revolves around.

Making 30x performance improvements on Yelp’s MySQLStreamer Abrar Sheikh, Software Engineer Feb 5, 2018 Introduction MySQLStreamer is an important application in Yelp’s Data Pipeline infrastructure. It’s responsible for streaming high-volume,...

Here is an argument I used to make, but now disagree with: Just to add another perspective, I find many “performance” problems in the real world can often be attributed to factors other…

Microservice-application requirements have changed dramatically in recent years. These days, applications operate with petabytes of data, need almost 100% uptime, and end users expect sub-second response times. Typical N-tier applications can’t deliver on…

Given the volume of many million posts per day that Meltwater has to process, we need a technology for search and storage that can handle this kind of volume. We have been a pretty happy users of Elasticsearch since the 0.11.X days. While we have been through…

As a Site Reliability Engineer, I’m primarily concerned with building stability into our software platform so that it doesn’t break…

In the last post in this series, I discussed some of the tools we’ve put in place for detecting and alerting us to incidents.

To successfully design for, implement, and run applications on Kubernetes requires knowledge of primitives, and awareness of design principles and practices. This article provides an overview of Kubernetes and guidance for how to best use it.

Step by step guide to build highly optimized docker images for Golang web-app development and deployment

Alibaba Cloud has supported HTTP/2 since the CDN 6.0 service launched in 2016, and has seen a 68% improvement to access rates. In this…

Public IaaS and PaaS clouds have existed long enough that they have become mainstream technologies. Many organizations have adopted a…

Questionable patching on the part of the WordPress CMS team has caused lots of headaches for WP site owners this week.

Now that you have a system like Kubernetes, or even Lambda for that matter — who watches the watcher?

Distributed database performance––both latency and uptime––can be dramatically improved with CDN-like multi-region deployments.

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