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As I enter deeper into the world of microservices, I do so on a quest of understanding. This article is part 3 in an ongoing series: 1)…

With Microservices architecture, a single software application/functionality is implemented as a combination of multiple microservices and…

Today I’m speaking at the Open Compute Project (OCP) U.S. Summit 2018 in San Jose where we are announcing a next generation specification for solid state device (SSD) storage, Project Denali. We’re…

Oracle announced its quarterly earnings last night, detailing that its cloud business grew 32 percent to $1.6 billion in the quarter. That might sound good at first blush, but it’s part of th…

We are proud to present Nimble: the evolution of the Netflix failover architecture that makes region evacuation an order of magnitude…

What are the pitfalls of running Java or JVM-based applications in containers? In this article, Jörg Schad and Ken Sipe discuss the challenges and...

Prisma Cloud is the industry's most complete Cloud Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP), providing code-to-cloud security in and across any cloud.

TL;DR: At a surface level, serverless is a really cool billing model. But when I can’t use standard HTTP interfaces or I need to tightly…

Linux TCP Tracepoints, and using them via bcc/eBPF.

As one of the folks leading our distributed tracing project at New Relic, I use the word “tracing” so often that sometimes I joke that it’s…

Evaluating the real costs of serverless architecture is tricky

Why geographically-distributed SRE teams? In today’s hyper-connected technological world, there is a need for geographically widespread technical teams to facilitate global growth. Businesses that scale to this level need global teams to handle that reach.…

Sqreen is a SaaS platform which automatically protects your web applications, in 30 seconds, with no code modification.

Avi Freedman has worked in networking for 30+ years and seen over 100 startups scale their infrastructure. Here are the most vital pieces of advice he has to share.

Leaky etcd servers could be a boon to data thieves and ransomware scammers.

Kubernetes' powerful automation features can streamline operations, saving time and costs. Here's how to make a business case for it.

By Gianluca Arbezzano, Site Reliability Engineer at InfluxDB, CNCF Ambassador Walter Dal Mut is a certified Amazon Web Service consultant. He works at Corley SRL, an Italian company that helps other…