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…

Medea: scheduling of long running applications in shared production clusters Garefalakis et al., EuroSys’18 (If you don’t have ACM Digital Library access, the paper can be accessed either by …

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Containers give developers the ability to isolate applications from one another, but that’s not enough. Resource isolation is much different that security isolation. How do we make applications deployed in containers more secure? How do we apply existing…

Cortana also a little too eager to carry out commands

As we evolved from a single monolithic application to a microservices-based architecture, we were faced with a new challenge. How do we support exponential growth while maintaining consistency, coordination, and quality?

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If you're familiar with PostgreSQL features and syntax, how easy will it be to get used to Redshift?

The growth at the end of 2017 continued for the worldwide server market in the first quarter of 2018 as worldwide server revenue increased 33.4 percent and shipments grew 17.3 percent year over year, according to Gartner, Inc.

Once it's running, you'll likely find that Elasticsearch performance starts to suffer over time. In order to maintain your cluster, you'll need to set up monitors to alert you to any warning signs so that you can proactively handle available maintenance windows.…