The modern infrastructure — sometimes called Infrastructure 2.0, DevNetOps, NetOps 2.0, and Super-NetOps — needs to embrace DevOps principle

Update : This post is outdated. For a better way of getting Kali Linux on Windows 10, install Kali Linux from the App store.
We’re always on the prowl for novel environments to run Kali on, and with the introduction of the Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL)…

Using Node.js, Express, MongoDB, and some imagination

This article explores and names some of the practical approaches used in the implementation of large-scale mission-critical applications in a world that rejects distributed transactions. Topics include the management of fine-grained pieces of application…

We are happy to announce <a href="https://github.com/alpacahq/marketstore" target="_blank">MarketStore</a> is now open source! <a href="https://hackernoon.com/tagged/marketstore" target="_blank">MarketStore</a> is a database server optimized for financial…

Is your Git repository bursting at the seams? git-sizer is a new open source tool that can tell you when your repo is getting too big. git-sizer computes various Git repository size metrics and alerts

In this blog post, we'll look at what is needed when migrating MySQL users to Amazon RDS. We’ll discuss how we can transform MySQL user grants and make them compatible with Amazon RDS.

Monitoring our infrastructure is of paramount importance at Giant Swarm, as our customers rely on us to provide fully-operated clusters that power some of the world’s largest companies. One of the major tools in our observability suite is Prometheus, which...

This post aims to discuss key monitoring discussion points and to summarise the relevant best practices when instrumenting application performance monitoring.
Below are some of the areas we’ll be focusing in on…
Terminology. Understand the different types…

Recently Tesla (the car company) was alerted, by security firm RedLock, that their Kubernetes infrastructure was compromised. The attackers…

Many times, new technologies seem deceptively simple – but I have never found them to actually be simpler. I have always loved the deep technical underpinnings of computing and that’s why I often write about how things like Containers, Unikernels, and Serverless…

(Also republished on my personal blog)

Signal Sciences CSO Zane Lackey presented at BlackHat USA 2017 with lessons he learned as leader of the Etsy security team. These practical tips for web application security professionals cover how to use gatekeeping controls, obtain visibility, measure security…

What’s Jenkins? Jenkins is a automation tool. With him, you can create jobs to build, test and deploy your application.

Serverless usage stats: event sources, service structures, runtimes, and more.

A week ago we published a story about new amplification attacks using memcached protocol on UDP port 11211. A few things happened since then: Github announced it was a target of 1.3Tbps memcached attack.
OVH and Arbor reported similar large attacks with the…

Why stateful services are an important part of the future of containers and microservices in the enterprise.