One of the concerns that often comes up when someone creates a new HTTP header is how much “bloat” it will add on the network. This is especially relevant in requests, when a little bit of extra data can introduce a lot of latency when repeated on every request.

Prometheus helps provide better visibility into the performance of your infrastructure and applications. Learn how to
integrate prometheus into your golang based services with their official Golang client.

September 8, 2021: Amazon Elasticsearch Service has been renamed to Amazon OpenSearch Service. See details. The AWS Region in Sweden that I promised you last year is now open and you can start using it today! The official name is Europe (Stockholm) and the…

Serverless vs. containers: Are they the same thing? How they interact? What is the best architecture for your cloud-native applications?

As of 2018, almost 90% of the 74,000 developers surveyed by Stack Overflow prefer to use Git for version control. Git dominates all other…

The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), the open-source home of projects like Kubernetes and Vitess, today announced that its technical committee has voted to bring a new project on board. That project is etcd, the distributed key-value store that was…

Jessica Tai provides an overview of trade-offs and motivation for the SOA migration. She discusses Airbnb’s architectural tenets around service building and dives deep into lessons learned and best practices developed when undertaking the massive SOA challenge.

As the year comes to a close, we’re sharing our final Octoverse report of 2018 to look back and highlight some of your most active, new open source projects of the year.

Tigera, a startup that offers security and compliance solutions for Kubernetes container deployments, today announced that it has raised a $30 million Series B round led by Insight Venture Partners. Existing investors Madrona, NEA and Wing also participated…

How an elusive CI (Continuous Integration) error led us to uncover a hidden man-in-the-middle ssh proxy.

Microservices written in Go was a key component of a new system that would enable The Economist to deliver scalable, high performing services and quickly iterate new products. Go's baked in concurrency and API support along with its design as a static, compiled…

In this post, we are going to look at two simple features in Terraform that allow us to avoid downtime caused by updates and allow uninterrupted replacement of resources. The examples in this post use the DigitalOcean provider, however, the techniques explained…

Kubernetes native multi-cluster canary or blue-green rollouts using Helm - bookingcom/shipper

Automatically sync groups into Kubernetes RBAC. Contribute to cruise-automation/rbacsync development by creating an account on GitHub.

A tool to scan Kubernetes cluster for risky permissions - cyberark/KubiScan

Embed Python in NGINX. Contribute to decentfox/nginxpy development by creating an account on GitHub.

The new Operator SDK makes it easy to create a Kubernetes controller to deploy and manage a service or application in a cluster.

Keeping today's complex systems secure requires a new approach: chaos engineering

Here's how red/purple team testing and chaos engineering complement each other to form a strong security experimentation strategy.