As part of a two-day microservices workshop I’m putting together, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith-application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is a small subset of that material, but I want…

Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as we introduce a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture, we cannot and should not disrupt the current request flows. Our “monolith” applications…

How we built Condé Nast's new deployment platform for NodeJS, Java, and Python using Docker containers, Marathon, and Mesos.

How to avoid security debt with early AWS design patterns.

I doubt there has ever been a time when software architecture was seen as a raging success. The “three-tier architecture” of the web has held up extremely well and is an excellent place for many people to start. The “12 Factor App” approach has encouraged…

Kubernetes provides a rich set of both primitives (e.g. pods) and higher-level constructs (e.g. deployments) you can use to run your…

By Quan To, Product Manager Deploying open-source solutions in the cloud usually means a lot of work keeping up-to-date with security hotf...

In this blog post, we will set up a small CrateDB cluster with Docker and go through some useful Docker commands that let us take a look at performance.

Running Apache Kafka on an OpenShift cluster with Helm and measuring the write throughput of the producer

Developing microservices that will be deployed on a container scheduling platform presents new challenges for engineers, particularly in regards to building and testing services locally that require several dependencies. This news item examines the Telepresence…

How we built Condé Nast's new deployment platform for NodeJS, Java, and Python using Docker containers, Marathon, and Mesos.

From popular tools to code review, deployment to daily life, here’s a look at the developer experience at Slack, Lyft, DigitalOcean, and more.

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

Mentoring the next generation of women is key to solving the DevOps talent shortage. Here's the #FamilyOps way to encourage your daughter to take up a field in STEM.

How IBM & Lightbend are bringing speed and resilience to microservices.

For a long time, we used TravisCI and Coveralls for executing lint checkers and tests and tracking our code coverage. These are fine tools…

You reboot your development server, but it happens again: <em>err_node_unsafe</em>. This wasn’t here yesterday. What changed?