GitLab, a collaboration and DevOps platform for developers that’s currently in use by more than 100,000 organizations, today announced that it has raised a $20 million Series C round led by GV (the fund you may still remember under its former name of Google…

A WebSocket server is nothing more than an application listening on any port of a TCP server that follows a specific protocol. Creating a custom server can seem overwhelming if you have never done it before. It can actually be quite straightforward to implement…

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

In this blog post, Peter Zaitsev takes a look at disk utilization and saturation.

Building software at scale requires strong governance of the software supply chain, and strong governance requires good data. Today, Google, along with JFr

The git bomb. Crafting compact repos that can't be cloned.

Over the past few years, Docker set out to build its own container management and orchestration layer. It's been a positively essential part of the company's roadmap, and one that most investors saw as the end-game play to bring in enterprise buyers at high…

By Ludovic Galibert, Vasanth Asokan and Sangeeta Narayanan

Synthetic Monitoring is something that we all do and all solutions have the same basic concept. But what happens with you have a failure, and no alert?

Why is it wrong to assume failures are preventable in IT? Why does optimising for robustness leave organisations ill-equipped to deal with failure, and what are the usual outcomes?

In this article Steve Smith explains why a production environment is always…

Anchore Navigator digs into images found in parts of operating systems that are missing, such as kernel and hardware-specific modules.

Terraform is a powerful tool for orchestrating cloud infrastructure, and, arguably, an essential tool once your infrastructure reaches a…

Persisting state between AWS EC2 spot instances using Docker on an external volume