In a busy database environment with larger size databases, the need for real-time data replication is a common occurrence. Applications often need the production data to be replicated in real-time to remote sites for analytics and other critical business…

Implementing DevOps practices in small organizations seems like standard practice, but what if you’re trying to utilize DevOps in large…

In a best-practice Kubernetes cluster every request to the Kubernetes APIServer is authenticated and authorized. Authorization is usually…

This is part four in series of blogs about strategy. The third part is here. The starting point is here. The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of… just kidding. There will be no second, or even first, enlightenment philosophy in this…

Postgres is our database of choice, and we love it. (Even when things go wrong.)

Helm is a popular package management solution for Kubernetes. It is like apt, yum, or brew for Kubernetes in that it allows you to deploy…

Analytics is about tracking the metrics that are critical for your business. Usually this metrics can give a picture of your business and…

The state of open source security report - 2019 by Snyk will cover: open source adoption, vulnerability identification, known vulnerabilities and more.

Network automation, Terraform roster, Ansible states, SaltSSH improvements, Docker proxy minion, loadable matchers, Azure ARM modules, etc.

In my first I explained a little bit the philosophy behind Kapitan and how it came to be.

Hi all, in this article I wanna sort and share some experience about creating and using the internal Kubernetes cluster.

At the Financial Times, we built our first microservices in 2013. We like a microservices-based approach, because by breaking up the system into lots of independently deployable services - making releases small, quick and reversible - we can deliver more…

Talk from QCon London 2019, about the parallels between the development of infrastructure management tools and devops and the current state of managing policy in code. Looks at ModSecurity, Inspec and Open Policy Agent, and suggests a few properties of previous…

Is Serverless eating the stack? Or is it just hype?

Much has been written about the “server” aspect of serverless, but what people forget about is the “less” part.

eBPF is constantly evolving and getting wider adoption. Low overhead and native programmability support make it very attractive.

These are great times for pushing code to production. Thanks to the cloud, micro-services, and investments in CI/CD pipelines, teams that…

Forget Lambda and serverless: if you are doing anything at all in AWS besides using it as a fantastically overpriced datacenter, I pretty much guarantee you are deeply locked into IAM.