This version of the one-year-old platform has been optimized for Kubernetes cluster deployment.

Today, the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and maintainers of Linkerd are excited to announce the general availability of Linkerd 2.0. The 2.0 release brings dramatic improvements to performance, resource...

With its 2.0 release, Linkerd introduces the 'service sidecar' while keeping all the service mesh handy characteristics of running across an entire cluster to provide platform-wide telemetry, security, and reliability. Let's take a closer look at the latest…

TL;DR: Linkerd 2.0 is a composable service sidecar built with the Unix philosophy in mind. That is, it doesn’t aim to do everything and…

A log is the simplest way to record an ordered sequence of immutable records and store them reliably. Build a data intensive distributed service and chances are you will need a log or two somewhere. At Facebook, we build a lot of big distributed services…

MariaDB, the company behind the eponymous MySQL drop-in replacement database, today announced that it has acquired Clustrix, which itself is a MySQL drop-in replacement database, but with a focus on scalability. MariaDB will integrate Clustrix’s technology…

Stackery sponsored this post. Cron jobs are often the night shift of our web applications. Some tasks just don't make sense to do in real time or during peak usage, and need to be scheduled to happen periodically. Cron jobs have two notorious problems: Relatively…

a really short introduction to OWASP and how they can help you to make your apps more secure.

tl;dr I found several bugs in apk, the default package manager for Alpine Linux. Alpine is a really lightweight distro that is very commonly used with Docker...

A report published by container security platform provider Twistlock suggests that the biggest issue with container security has more do with the code in A Twistlock report suggests that the biggest issue with container security has more do with the code…

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The following is a step-by-step walkthrough of how to deploy a Flask-based microservice (along with Postgres and Vue.js) to a Kubernetes cluster.

HashiCorp advocates for "infrastructure as code" approaches to managing infrastructure. We have talked about it publicly and published about it in our Tao of HashiCorp. At HashiConf 2017, we announced Sentinel, a framework for "policy as code". The same…

How to write a kubernetes controller/operator with a description of control logic and development environment. Based on a real life example of Netperf.

Iptables provides powerful capabilities to control traffic coming in and out of your system.

Sustainable Servers by 2024

Don’t Mandate One Way

A few months back, I wrote an article which got a bit of interest around the issues configuring and maintaining multiple clusters, and keeping the components...

The why’s, how’s and results from rethinking Netflix’s edge load balancing

In addition to being great for service discovery and key/value storage, Consul has great support for multiple data centres and in this…

Neurodiversity and the Essence of DevOps @jeffsussna