How to build and run Android Emulator on a Docker container, run locally on MacBook. Assumption Docker is installed. I learned about Docker…

Apple has acquired FoundationDB, a company that specializes in speedy, durable NoSQL databases, TechCrunch has learned. A notice on the FoundationDB site notes that it’s no longer offering…

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We recently worked with a retail customer to help them accelerate their cloud journey from on-prem to Microsoft Azure. As with all our…

Among open-source relational databases, PostgreSQL is one of the most popular—and the most sought-after by Google Cloud Platform (GCP) users. Today, we’re

In this contributed article, Paul Brebner, Tech Evangelist at Instaclustr provides an understanding of the main Kafka components and how Kafka consumers [...]

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Container Security is quickly becoming a segment ripe for standardization and simplification. Given the recent explosive growth of Kubernetes and the creation of new container runtimes in the past year, this should not come as a surprise.

Netflix decreased the time it takes to respond to an outage from 45 minutes to seven with no additional cost.

EFK stack? Like ELK?
You may have heard of ELK (Elasticsearch
[https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch], Logstash
[https://www.elastic.co/products/logstash], Kibana
[https://www.elastic.co/products/kibana]). EFK is the same stack where we
replace Logstash…

Building images from a standard Dockerfile typically relies upon interactive access to a Docker daemon, which requires root access on your machine to run.

Today, Red Hat is pleased to announce a new open source project, the Vault Operator. In keeping with earlier projects, including the etcd Operator and the Prometheus Operator, the Vault Operator aims to make it easier to install, manage, and maintain instances…

Containers are eating the software world — and Kubernetes is the king of containers. So if you are working on any major software project, especially in the enterprise, you will run into it sooner or later. Cloud Foundry, which hosted its semi-annual developer…

This article discusses good practices for Kubernetes application operators, from how to use service accounts and namespaces to writing good YAML manifests to rolling out apps.

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This article provides practical examples of how to manage data in microservices, with an emphasis on migrating from a monolithic database. It is recommended to build a monolith first, and only migrate to microservices after you actually require the scaling…

Microsoft has built its own custom Linux kernel to power "Azure Sphere," a newly launched technology that aims to better secure billions of "Internet of things" devices.

In this blog I’ll explain the big wins that come with the MySQL Document Store in the MySQL 8.0 GA. Basically SQL + NOSQL = Winning Combination = Relational + Document Store + Hybrid = Big Wi…

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