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To build a successful DevOps environment, you must eliminate blame. Here's why—and how to do it.

One cannot overstate the importance of monitoring infrastructure as an integral component of distributed systems (or, any system for that…

How we at uSwitch managed to get all our applications to use short-lived database credentials without changing any of their code (almost).

Open source is fueling the transformation of eBay’s infrastructure with technologies like Kubernetes, Envoy, MongoDB, Docker and Apache Kafka. By sharing our innovations with the community, we are hoping to give back.

In computer science, scheduling refers to a method by which work specified by some means is assigned to resources that are capable of completing that work. It is an age-old problem that existed since the time of introduction of IBM S/360 in the 1960s. Scheduling…

We improved the performance of our MongoDB databases by using our own developed operation profiler and visualizer

'Best Practices' are the IT world's superstitions runbook.cloud is built entirely on AWS Lambda. As the first application I’ve worked on built 100% on serverless technologies I’ve learnt a great deal along the way. One thing in particular I’ve learnt: don’t…

Hear from CIOs, CTOs, and other C-level and senior execs on data and AI strategies at the Future of Work Summit this January 12, 2022. Learn more In the wake of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica data-sharing scandal, startup Hu-manity.co is asserting our right…

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is now in effect, aiming to oversee people’s Fundamental Rights regarding personal data

Today, we announce that we are open sourcing cstar, our Cassandra orchestration tool [...]

Knative was announced with a lot of fanfare and created a decent amount of noise in the blogosphere when it was released at Google Next in…

This step by step guide shows you how to set up a git centric CICD pipeline for Kubernetes with Helm and Weave Flux.

How are microservices standing in the Kubernetes era? The microservice architecture is still the most popular architectural style for distributed systems. But Kubernetes and the cloud-native movement have redefined certain aspects of application design and…

This article explains essential considerations and overheads of switching to microservices software architecture, like communication to make the right choice.

Settle the monitoring vs observability debate by adopting Observerless principles--it's the the hottest new thing in monitoring you're already doing.

One of the fun parts in using serverless is the fact that you can try out new ideas and provision them in a flick of a finger. I’ve…

As time has gone by, one of the things I've enjoyed the most in running Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is seeing how far I could make the dollars stretch. How big can it go whilst at the same time, running it on a shoestring? I keep finding new ways of optimising…

Comparison of cold start statistics for FaaS across AWS, Azure and GCP