Over the past few days we learned about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks.

When apps are immutable, and data persists on RDS, S3, which regulations one must adhere to when architecting their backup solution?

Whether you're new to Go or a seasoned Gopher, you may recognize these steps on the path to Go enlightenment.

DevOps poses a unique challenge and opportunity for IT governance. Traditionally we have governed IT in terms of projects. DevOps offers us a very different manner of execution. It is flow based, with new requirements being pulled into a pipeline, worked…

Like so many things in life, serverless is a spectrum with multiple dimensions along which the degree of each can vary

GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we grow. One of the areas where this is evident is in how your requests find their destination…

This post is going to attempt to demystify the several layers of networking operating in a kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes is a powerful…

This blog series is aimed at those who are interested in developing scalable cloud infrastructure and automating repetitive tasks. I’ll…

VMware is aiming to boost its SDN portfolio through VeloCloud's technology, intellectual property, and customer base.

Developers need to understand SQL, automated frameworks, performance, security, and more in order to be proficient with databases.

As you may have heard, the Notary project has been invited to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Much like its real world namesake, Notary is a platform for establishing trust over pieces of content. In life, certain important events such…

Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added.

The Google-developed container management system has quickly become one of the biggest success stories in open source history.

Regular Expressions (Regex): One of the most powerful, widely applicable, and sometimes intimidating techniques in software engineering.

ATO2017 - Slides and additional links for the All Things Open Talk: 7 More Habits for Scalable Jenkins Administrators

Create a custom Kubernetes scheduler using monitoring metrics coming from Sysdig: system, network, services, statsd, JMX or Prometheus metrics.

A call to action for maintainers to support themselves and move forward.

Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. It's slow, hard to get at, and insecure as insecure can be.

In this blog post, I'll look at MySQL and Linux context switches, and what is the normal number per second for a database environment.

No time for commands? Scheduling tasks with cron means programs can run but you don't have to stay up late.