Tag: Cloud
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How data blending is leveling the playing field in online marketing
Posted on October 25, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
Online marketing today is about successfully manage your social media marketing, social media advertising, PPC ads, email campaigns - if you're not careful, it can feel like throwing spaghetti at the wall just to see what works. Fortunately, data analysis and - more specifically - data blending can make your marketing decisions faster and easier to make, with more impact. By Zac Johnson.
Tags startups cloud cio teams data-science
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Rebuilding Linkerd's continuous integration (CI) with Kubernetes in Docker (kind) and GitHub Action
Posted on October 24, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
In mid-2019, the Linkerd project's continuous integration (CI) took 45 minutes, all tests were serialized on a single Kubernetes cluster, and multi-hour backups were common. A migration onto one-off Kubernetes in Docker (kind) clusters and GitHub Actions got CI below 10 minutes, and made it parallelizable. By Andrew Seigner.
Tags cloud docker kubernetes containers devops
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Mapping Moving clouds: How to stay on top of your ephemeral environments with Cartography
Posted on October 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
Staying on top of ephemeral environments is a challenge many organizations face. This blog post describes the process we undertook at Thought Machine, a cloud-native company with environments spanning across multiple cloud providers, to identify a solution able to detect, identify, categorize, and visualize all the cloud assets being deployed in an organization. Written by Marco Lancini, Security Engineer.
Tags cloud infosec cio devops software-architecture
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InnoDB Data Locking – Part 1 Introduction
Posted on October 20, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
In this blog series, we would like to introduce you gently to the topic on which we were working over last 2 years. Improving how InnoDB locks data (tables and rows) in order to provide illusion to clients that their queries are executed one after another, while in reality there is a lot of concurrency. By Kuba Łopuszański.
Tags cloud sql database devops software performance
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Zero downtime on MySQL schema change
Posted on October 19, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length short
Have you ever deployed a feature which interrupted your application because the schema change on the MySQL database has locked the table? Then I have good news for you! There are some tools like the Percona Toolkit which can apply the operation without a downtime. By Michi Lehr.
Tags cloud sql database devops performance
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How event driven systems work in commerce
Posted on October 18, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length medium
The polling system acts like the impatient customer. In a commerce-related scenario, it keeps polling the system for new updates such as orders and payment authorizations while the event driven system relies on asynchronous event handlers to notify it of updates in the system. By Sajjad Heydari.
Tags cloud management event-driven miscellaneous
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Full-Stack Flutter: Creating a backend for your app with AWS & serverless
Posted on October 11, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Being such a popular language for new developers, many of those using Flutter don't know how or where to even begin when it comes to setting up a backend for their applications. By BleylDev.
Tags app-development javascript android cloud google
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Bootstrapping Java Kubernetes apps with spring Initializr and K8s initializer
Posted on October 9, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Build a Spring Boot app and deploy to K8s without writing a single line of YAML. By Daniel Bryant.
Tags cloud devops kubernetes java containers
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Why I'm excited about Cloudflare's automatic platform optimization for WordPress
Posted on October 8, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Cloudflare released "Automatic Platform Optimization" (APO), a new performance optimization service for WordPress sites. By Brian Li.
Tags cloud web-development performance code-refactoring
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EKS vs GKE vs AKS: Evaluating Kubernetes in the cloud
Posted on October 3, 2020, Level beginner Resource Length long
We are now six years past the initial release of Kubernetes, and it continues to be one of the fastest-growing open-source projects to date. By Michael Foster.
Tags devops cloud aws containers azure kubernetes gcp
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How do routers work, really?
Posted on September 21, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length long
This is the inside view of how exactly a router operates. You only need to know this if you are poking inside a router implementation. If that is the case, my condolences. By Kamila Součková.
Tags cloud infosec miscellaneous learning servers browsers distributed
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Rootless containers using Podman
Posted on September 18, 2020, Level intermediate Resource Length medium
Watch this two-part video series on understanding root inside and outside of containers and how user namespaces work. By Brian Smith (Red Hat).
Tags devops app-development containers cloud docker