Well, this is awkward – after spending years playfully eviscerating 451 Research analyst Owen Rogers, finally, I’m taking him to task “for reals.” Some research he’s just completed, while empirical…

Yesterday I was critical of a report that Dr. Owen Rogers, noted cloud economist (yes, there is such a thing) and respected analyst at 451 Research came out with. A synopsis of my views is that Rog…

Make your Docker Compose applications reusable, and share them on Docker Hub - docker/app

In video streaming, it’s good to be a victim of your own success. At least, it’s better than having no viewership at all. Perhaps you’re using a world-class CDN and, yet, some of your users are still not enjoying a good streaming experience, especially during…

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Open-Source Unified Vulnerability Management, DevSecOps & ASPM - DefectDojo/django-DefectDojo

Zstandard is a fast real-time, lossless data compression algorithm and compression tool which offers high compression ratios, developed by Facebook.

As the Chief Technology Officer of a company in the revolutionary market of containers focused on the transformational segment of cloud native storage, I spend my time working with bleeding edge early adopters. I love working with architects and other CTOs…

In this new article, we are going to review a basic concept of DevOps that is again based on Lean thinking. In the world of Lean, this concept is the use of small batches of work.

Slack is widely used by DevOps and development teams to communicate status. Typically, when a build has been tested and is ready to be promoted to a staging environment, a QA engineer or DevOps engineer kicks off the deployment. Using Slack in a ChatOps collaboration…

A critical server for popular weight-loss service Weight Watchers was left unprotected, allowing researchers to take a bite out of dozens of exposed S3 buckets containing company data and AWS access k

Some news everyone seems to be interested in this week is the general availability of Google's "low-code environment App Maker," which promises to make it "easy for your team to iterate from prototype to deployed app," regardless of their lack of coding experience…

Back in May, the world's biggest Kubernetes users and contributors gathered in Denmark for KubeCon + CloudNativeCon 2018 Europe. One of the topics we were keen to see addressed at this meeting of the minds was the future of Kubernetes, and the Cloud Native…

Practical Dev on Kubernetes

The beauty of serverless computing services like AWS Lambda is that they abstract away the server itself. That enables developers to create applications without worrying about the underlying infrastructure, but it also creates a set of new problems. Without…

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Amazon ElastiCache makes it easy for you to set up a fully managed in-memory data store and cache with Redis or Memcached. Today we’re pleased to launch compatibility with Redis 4.0 in ElastiCache. You can now launch Redis 4.0 compatible ElastiCache nodes…

I'm sort of obsessed about iteration speed. I've written about this in the past and it deserves more posts in the future, but the quick summary is that iteration speed is always going to be the strongest competitive advantage in this industry. There's of…

The benefits of modeling data as events as a mechanism to evolve our software systems.

I have always been a firm believer that there is no such thing as a dumb question. Many times I have outed myself as the dumbest guy in this room with a simple question, and in the process, I hope I have been able to enlighten others. “What is the difference…