Soccer is a team sport (and in the case of the World Cup, a global fan sport too!) where the collaborative efforts of players often dictate the game’s winner. Everyone must focus and work together with a single goal and purpose for the common good of the…

Verify how your application behaves with your full solution stack by using multiple containers to provide a whole test environment.

Serverless architectures are attracting attention for their ability to support faster development times alongside their potentially lower operational costs, due to a pay-only-for-the-compute-you-use model. That means that companies implementing serverless…

The days of the one-size-fits-all monolithic database are behind us, and developers are using a multitude of purpose-built databases.

Containers currently make up about 19 percent of hybrid cloud production workloads today, but in just two years’ time this will increase to around 33 percent. In particular, microservices are being increasingly employed in the finance sector, with NAB CEO…

Ansible reboot a Debian/Ubuntu Linux for kernel update and wait for it so that rest of the playbook can continue operation managing server.

Designing and running applications with scalability, portability, and robustness in mind can be challenging, especially as complexity grows. The architecture…

If you are a cloud adopter rapidly adopting cloud services, but not developing the finance governance muscle, you will certainly be…

CloudBees, the Jenkins-based DevOps platform that recently acquired Codeship, today announced that it has raised a $62 million funding round. The round consists of a traditional $37 million equity round led by Delta-v Capital and $25 million of growth financing…

Standardisation to Scale

As this is my first post on Medium, I wanted to take the opportunity to document my recent experience of setting up a honeypot on an AWS…

Recently at work we had a minor incident involving exhaustion of the EC2
metadata server on some of our hosts. I was able to get enough detail to
delegate the rest to a team to fix the issue.

We are happy to share the videos from the top 5 rated sessions from last week’s DockerCon 2018 in San Francisco. The DockerCon on-demand sessions videos are ready for you to explore. Note: The Ecosystem sessions will not be available.

Learn how Stripe uses AWS Reserved Instances and capacity planning to effectively manage a dynamic, scalable cloud infrastructure.

In episode one of O11ycast, Merian Ventures' Rachel Chalmers and Honeycomb.io's Charity Majors dive into a few ways observability can drive fundamental changes in the way we approach software development.

Starting in 2016 BuzzFeed began a re-architecture project moving from a single monolithic application written in Perl to a set of microservices. The main reason for the move was that the Perl application was proving hard to scale, essential given that buzzfeed.com…

So, the whole AWS Evangelism team fields a lot of questions around “how do I get you, or another evangelist from your team, so speak at my event?”.  This is a tricky one-  we’d love to come to each and every event out there, but until we find a way to bend…

This is part four in an ongoing series on developing an application that runs in AWS Fargate: