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.

Learn the biggest barriers to DevOps and what you can do to overcome them.

In this article, I’ll explain how we handle community pull requests while avoiding storing Algolia credentials in Travis’s secured environment variables. It requires a bit

At Hootsuite, we try to host internal hackathons pretty frequently. Like any other hackathon, people come together, write some code and…

One of the things I'm working on right now is a project that's aggregating data found in developers GitHub profiles. Since there are a couple of problems with using GitHub profiles as a data source like this, I wanted to first list out some of the issues…

tl:dr: Kubernetes could become Xen

Explore KubeVirt and Kata Containers, two fairly new projects that aim to combine Kubernetes with virtualization.

Seems like every 5 to 10 years our industry, especially in the Enterprise Integration, or enterprise application space, we get introduced to some new methodology or architectural style that's the best since sliced bread and will make you 10x more productive…