Scaling up TCP servers is usually straightforward. Most deployments start by using a single process setup. When the need arises more worker processes are added.

The Google-developed container management system has quickly become one of the biggest success stories in open source history.

Regular Expressions (Regex): One of the most powerful, widely applicable, and sometimes intimidating techniques in software engineering.

ATO2017 - Slides and additional links for the All Things Open Talk: 7 More Habits for Scalable Jenkins Administrators

Create a custom Kubernetes scheduler using monitoring metrics coming from Sysdig: system, network, services, statsd, JMX or Prometheus metrics.

A call to action for maintainers to support themselves and move forward.

Buried deep inside your computer's Intel chip is the MINIX operating system and a software stack, which includes networking and a web server. It's slow, hard to get at, and insecure as insecure can be.

In this blog post, I'll look at MySQL and Linux context switches, and what is the normal number per second for a database environment.

No time for commands? Scheduling tasks with cron means programs can run but you don't have to stay up late.

or xfs Users, Take Care! Recently, we had a customer ask: Why do many files holding my data take up vastly more space than their size is? That question may sound weird to you, but it is for real, and

How I learnt the basics of Go (its good parts as well as a few quirks) by porting a medium-sized web backend from Python.

Many people hack together shell scripts quickly to do simple tasks, but these soon take on a life of their own. Unfortunately shell scripts are full of subtle effects which result in scripts failing in unusual ways. It’s possible to […]

Lessons learned running Kubernetes in production and fixing our noisy neighbor problem.

Observations and debugging problems in LoadBalancer services.

This is a consolidated overview of the InfluxDB architecture. Part one of three in this series describes the InfluxDB write path: how the database persists and organizes data being written to the database. There is a summary of the next two parts in th...

Not long ago, House of Cards came back for the fifth season, finally ending a long wait for binge watchers across the world who are…

Memory Management Types of Profiling Tools Matrix Analysis Steps Base Example ReadMemStats Pprof Trace Conclusion Note: I highly recommend also reading this official diagnostics documentation.
Memory Management Before we dive into the techniques and tools…

The simplest way to send your files around the world using IPFS. ✏️ 🗃 - FileNation/FileNation

The Apache CouchDB development community is proud to announce the immediate availability of versions 2.1.1 and 1.7.0. Both releases are security releases and fix multiple CRITICAL issues. Updates a…

One the biggest security news stories of 2017 was of a ransomware variant targeting improperly secured MongoDB instances. Here it is in a nutshell: some users of MongoDB accidentally left their databases exposed to the internet without any authentication.…