Simple practices to make your database more reliable.

Tips for developing and maintaining staging environments that will help you build more stable software systems.

I’m currently working on migrating a Rails application to ECS at work. The current system uses a heavily customized Capistrano setup that’s showing its signs, especially when deploying …

From developers to CTOs, everyone has a role to play in shaping their own transformation.

One of the principal features used in analytic databases is table partitioning. This feature is so frequently used because of its ability to significantly reduce query latency by allowing the execution engine to skip reading data that is not necessary for…

This blog post explains techniques for development teams who strive for high velocity continuous delivery using Kubernetes and Docker. When we say “high velocity” we mean that every product team can safely ship updates many times a day — deploy instantly…

Explaining the way, auto-configuration works in my Home Lab. Driven by Docker, generated by Python tools, fully automated (almost).

In this newest episode of The New Stack Makers podcast, we spoke with Dianne Marsh, director of engineering for engineering tools at Netflix. Her team is responsible for building the tools, including Spinnaker, that the other teams use for deploying their…

Containers and Kubernetes were not here when we started doing agile. But they change what used to be the hardest part: Applying agile beyond a small group, to the whole organization.

In this blog post we show how to record SSH sessions with OpenSSH sshd using Teleport as a recording proxy

If you are in the job market, and started your career 25 years ago, and your main expertise is data warehousing, a data warehouse engineer…

To get straight to the point: nobody wants to have large grain snapshots of data for any dataset that is actually comprised of a continuous stream of data

Kubernetes is one of the hottest open-source projects these days. It’s a production-grade container orchestration system, inspired by Google’s own <a href="http://blog.kubernetes.io/2015/04/borg-predecessor-to-kubernetes.html" target="_blank">Borg</a> and…

The engineering team for social media service LinkedIn first launched Gobblin in 2014 as a universal data ingestion framework for offline big data, running on Hadoop in MapReduce mode. As new capabilities were added to enable the framework to support a spectrum…

Posts and writings by Amit Saha

With preconnect hints, you can reduce request latency and make your site faster.

Meltdown breaks the fundamental isolation between user applications and the OS. In this post, we run MongoDB Meltdown tests on AWS, Azure and DigitalOcean.

When I started writing pg_chameleon I had in mind a tool making simple to migrate from different dbms engines to PostgreSQL.
The name was inspired by the Culture Club’s Karma chameleon song which suggested me the idea of a tool capable to move data between…

I’ve been talking about scalability for servers and other cloud resources for a very long time! Back in 2006, I wrote “This is the new world of scalable, on-demand web services. Pay for what you need and use, and not a byte more.” Shortly after we launched…