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?

by Radu Raicea How open source licenses work and how to add them to your projects Image credit: GitHubRecently, there was some exciting news for developers around the world. Facebook changed the license of multiple libraries they develop. They switched from…

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This article will walk through five common Elasticsearch performance issues, and how to deal with them.

When I joined trivago a year ago we had problems with our releases. Read how we were able to switch from our bash release process to a new one.

Introduction This guide aims to help all administrators with security concerns. While we are not going to discuss any security "rocket science," but we will go through the basic aspects of securing your Linux server from intruders and outside attack. In…

Introduction In the previous guide, we have discussed some security configurations for your Linux server. In this part, we discuss some of the tools which can help improve security on a Linux server. Fail2ban When you are running a service which needs…

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…

By Scott Ellis, Product Manager  If your organization has sensitive and regulated data, you know how much of a challenge it can be to keep...