Zipkin is a distributed tracing system implemented in Java and with OpenTracing compatible API. It’s responsible for span ingestion and storage by providing a number of collectors (HTTP, Kafka, Scribe) as well as storage engines (in-memory, MySQL, Cassandra…

Dave Hahn talks about how Netflix engineering teams think about failure, the tools, techniques, and training they use to shorten the inevitable failures of their systems and impacts to their customers. He explains why they believe chaos is their friend, failure…

Talk at Microservices Dublin, see https://www.meetup.com/Dublin-Microservices-User-Group/events/249060946/

I work at a very ‘locked-down’ enterprise, where direct access to Docker is effectively verboten. This, fundamentally, is because access to Docker is effectively giving users root. From…

Taking Human Performance Seriously In Software

An introduction to IncludeOS, given at FLOSSUK 2018. IncludeOS is a C++ Unikernel. It is used in production.

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See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.

This blog post is a short introduction to Docker Compose and will explain how we use it to manage different system configurations that are built off the same base configuration.

Since 2011, Alibaba Group has been actively involved in building open source communities, with the number of open source projects…

In Part 1 of this list, we talked about five open source projects by Alibaba, focusing on distributed systems. Despite the deployment…

If you are in the cloud industry, chances are, you might have already tried different kinds of tutorials, classes, and resources to learn…

Every application has to store and access operational data, usually in a database. Managed database services can help you ship apps faster and reduce opera

How running your apps on Kubernetes makes them more tolerant to change.

While Kafka's KSQL attempts to make streaming data processing easier for developers, Arcadia Data is trying to bring that ease to analysts and business users.

A curated list of awesome #Golang frameworks, libraries and software

The Cerberus micro-service, a secure property store for cloud applications. It includes a REST API, authentication and encryption features, as well as a self-service web UI for users. - GitHub - Ni...