At the very heart of Actual is a custom syncing engine. I'd like to talk about a PostgreSQL feature that enabled a 9-10x performance improvement.

Learn how Databricks accelerates developer productivity by moving away from traditional data centers to cloud-based solutions.

Why Kubernetes is not part of our stack

Developers write tests to ensure correctness and allow future changes to be made safely. However, as the number of features grows, so does the number of tests. Tests are a double-edged sword. On one hand, well-written ones catch bugs and maintain a program’s…

Recently I (along with a few others much smarter than me) had occasion to implement a ‘real’ production system with Istio, running on a managed cloud-provided Kubernetes service. Istio …

In Chapter 2, we have the patterns themselves. They include Dynamic Strategy, Research Through Action, and Gradually Raising the Stakes. These strategy patterns, when combined, allow us to plot a way forward, step-by-step. They help us to both understand…

Some charts for a better understanding of the relationship of backend objectives and how they impact user experience.

Some of the math behind nines used to establish back end service level objectives (SLO).

A walkthrough on how we are improving the reliability of our management services running in each data center by using Nomad for dynamic task scheduling.

Fortio load testing library, command line tool, advanced echo server and web UI in go (golang). Allows to specify a set query-per-second load and record latency histograms and other useful stats. -...

A look into the methods and best practices for SREs using OpenShift

Here’s a closer look at the new Prometheus feature of memory-mapping of in-memory chunks.

Some time ago, I learned an important Kubernetes lesson the hard way.

Kubernetes conversations rarely center the developer's perspective. As a result, doing our job in a k8s cluster often requires building complicated YAML

What if you could spin up a temporary cluster to test the app & it gets deleted automatically after a certain time? That's an ephemeral environment.

We own and operate physical infrastructure for our backend services. We need an effective way to route arbitrary TCP and UDP traffic between services and also from outside these data centers.

Azure Security Center monitors and defends thousands of Kubernetes clusters running on top of Azure Kubernetes Service. In this blog, we’ll reveal a new campaign that was observed recently by ASC that targets Kubeflow, a machine learning toolkit for Kubernetes.