Here's a compendium of practical MySQL optimization tricks - from bottlenecks to configuration and indexes. Leave your ORM behind and get your hands dirty!

Here are four tips for securing your container secrets that you should implement right now.

Companies that want the benefits of modern cloud computing without the cloud turn to private cloud services in order to achieve that goal, and IBM has a new version of… Read More

With the recent launch of Lambda@Edge, it’s now possible for you to provide even more robust functionality to your static websites. Amazon CloudFront is a content distribution network service. In this post, I show how you can use Lambda@Edge along with the…

JSON-API has been one of the most popular standards for API development for a while now. It was conceived in 2013, battled through some…

A microservices API gateway is an API gateway designed to accelerate the development workflow of indpendent services teams.

If you are like me, you are continually frustrated by out of date documentation. One day, someone will start a company specializing in…

Over the past few days we learned about a new attack that posed a serious weakness in the encryption protocol used to secure all modern Wi-Fi networks.

When apps are immutable, and data persists on RDS, S3, which regulations one must adhere to when architecting their backup solution?

Whether you're new to Go or a seasoned Gopher, you may recognize these steps on the path to Go enlightenment.

DevOps poses a unique challenge and opportunity for IT governance. Traditionally we have governed IT in terms of projects. DevOps offers us a very different manner of execution. It is flow based, with new requirements being pulled into a pipeline, worked…

Like so many things in life, serverless is a spectrum with multiple dimensions along which the degree of each can vary

GitHub is at a scale that provides exposure to interesting aspects of running a major site and are working to mature and level-up many parts of our infrastructure as we grow. One of the areas where this is evident is in how your requests find their destination…

This post is going to attempt to demystify the several layers of networking operating in a kubernetes cluster. Kubernetes is a powerful…

This blog series is aimed at those who are interested in developing scalable cloud infrastructure and automating repetitive tasks. I’ll…

VMware is aiming to boost its SDN portfolio through VeloCloud's technology, intellectual property, and customer base.

Developers need to understand SQL, automated frameworks, performance, security, and more in order to be proficient with databases.

As you may have heard, the Notary project has been invited to join the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF). Much like its real world namesake, Notary is a platform for establishing trust over pieces of content. In life, certain important events such…