Flattening a single very hot vertical Redis node into a horizontal Redis Cluster at Stripe.

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…

MySQL is the last major SQL database that has evolved beyond SQL-92 by introducing window functions (OVER) and common table expressions (WITH [RECURSIVE])

Many java developers use the Spring framework to create web-services in the blink of an eye. But maintaining it running in production ….

This article aims to get to the truth about the challenges and advantages of microservices, in terms of testing, monitoring, management, and scalability.

One thing that differentiates microservices architecture from more traditional, monolithic development styles is the number of choices that have to be made. Which frameworks (if any) are you going to…

I’ve been experimenting with running a Kubernetes node set up by kubeadm in a Vagrant machine on my Mac. It’s set up so I can access the…

The Quickest Way to Make your Static S3 Website Dynamic

A guide to the common steps we've observed in breaking a monolithic application up into microservices

Google Inc. today revealed plans to strengthen the lineup of database services on its cloud platform with a managed in-memory store and several improvements to existing products.Cloud Memorystore

GitHub is launching a new bot-powered learning lab to help budding developers get up to speed on all things GitHub. The San Francisco-based code-hosting platform, which hosts some 80 million repositories and claims 27 million users, recently celebrated its…

A few years ago our CTO wrote about building a Continuous Integration server for Ruby On Rails using Jenkins and docker. The solution has…

Create an identical machine image from a single source

Recently there have been many great posts helping to define with more precision distinctions between different tools and problems related…

Sometimes you need to learn and master something completely new in a short amount of time. Say, like in my case, it might be your boss, who…

I am proud to announce the general availability of Azure Container Instances (ACI) – a serverless way to run both Linux and Windows containers. ACI offers you an on-demand compute service delivering…

Even smart admins can make bad decisions.

What happens to a container's MCS label when the container is rebuilt or upgraded?

What skills does a modern IT operations engineer need now? In the future? Here are top resources to get up to speed.