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Many applications that run in a Java Virtual Machine (JVM), including data services such as Apache Spark and Kafka and traditional enterprise applications, are run in containers. Until recently, running the JVM in a container presented problems with memory…

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Distributed tracing, debugging, and profiling for your performance-sensitive applications By Morgan McLean, Product Manager Like all deve...

By Ines Envid and Manjot Pahwa, Product Managers, Google Cloud Networking Google Cloud Platform (GCP) employs several security measures t...

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…

Table of Contents Goals Options Servers Init Scripts NFS Server Master Node Worker Node(s) Pod Networking (Flannel) Kubernetes Dashboard NFS Storage Class Installing Helm Installing Heapster Installing Traefik Private Docker Registry Configuring Credentials…

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By Andy Chang, Senior Product Manager Last week, we announced the release of Cloud Security Command Center Alpha (Cloud SCC), a new secu...

The Amazon DynamoDB team is back with another useful feature hot on the heels of encryption at rest. At AWS re:Invent 2017 we launched global tables and on-demand backup and restore of your DynamoDB tables and today we’re launching continuous backups with…

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The Pentagon says it’s received 1,089 comments -- including submissions from 46 companies -- on its plans for a multibillion-dollar cloud computing contract in a sign of the intense interest and sharp debate over a winner-take-all award that competitors say…

The Red Hat Linux distribution is turning 25 years old this week. What started as one of the earliest Linux distributions is now the most successful open-source company, and its success was a catal…

I have been researching how the Kubernetes Ingress system works. My use case is to setup an autoscaled Nginx cluster that reverse proxies to Pods in multiple Deployments. It wasn't immediately obvious how to do this. By default, Pods in Kubernetes are not…

The security researcher Fábio Castro discovered tens of thousands of Django apps that expose sensitive data because developers forget to disable the debug mode.

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Why geographically-distributed SRE teams? In today’s hyper-connected technological world, there is a need for geographically widespread technical teams to facilitate global growth. Businesses that scale to this level need global teams to handle that reach.…

In part one of this series, we discussed some of the key principles to consider when developing geographically distributed (GD) SRE teams. Similar to the first article, we’re leveraging the journey of LinkedIn’s SRE team as the point of reference for the…

Over the last two months, I have invested most of my free time learning the complete ins-and-outs of what the microservices architecture…