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This article will walk through five common Elasticsearch performance issues, and how to deal with them.

When I joined trivago a year ago we had problems with our releases. Read how we were able to switch from our bash release process to a new one.

Introduction This guide aims to help all administrators with security concerns. While we are not going to discuss any security "rocket science," but we will go through the basic aspects of securing your Linux server from intruders and outside attack. In…

Introduction In the previous guide, we have discussed some security configurations for your Linux server. In this part, we discuss some of the tools which can help improve security on a Linux server. Fail2ban When you are running a service which needs…

As part of a two-day microservices workshop I’m putting together, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith-application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is a small subset of that material, but I want…

Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as we introduce a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture, we cannot and should not disrupt the current request flows. Our “monolith” applications…

By Scott Ellis, Product Manager  If your organization has sensitive and regulated data, you know how much of a challenge it can be to keep...

Does your serverless application need to access an RDS database? Where do you store the username and the password required to...

I recently spoke at ServerlessConf NYC on Managing Serverless Development. The slides are here (enjoy the cat pictures!):

I doubt there has ever been a time when software architecture was seen as a raging success. The “three-tier architecture” of the web has held up extremely well and is an excellent place for many people to start. The “12 Factor App” approach has encouraged…

This analysis of tail latency explains the symptoms of slow response time, possible root causes, and several possible solutions, like canary requests.

It's finally time: it's time the pendulum swings further towards the "secure by default" end of the scale than what it ever has before. At least insofar as securing web traffic goes because as of this week's Chrome 62's launch, any website with an input box…

Deciding on a programming language is always a difficult choice, learn why Stream switched from Python to Go as our language of choice.

"Kubernetes, not the hardest way": a worked example to implement Kesley Hightower's tutorial with Terraform and Ansible, on AWS.

How to provision Kubernetes on AWS from scratch, with Terraform and Ansible. Walk through a sample, tutorial project to install K8s on the "bare-cloud".

How to provision Kubernetes on AWS from scratch, with Terraform and Ansible. Walk through a sample, tutorial project to install K8s on the "bare-cloud".

The monumental stable release of HAProxy 1.8 is here! The HAProxy 1.8 release candidate 1 (RC1) has been published by the R&D team here at HAProxy Technologies.