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SRE Fundamentals: SLIs, SLAs and SLOs
By Jay Judkowitz, Senior Product Manager and Mark Carter, Group Product Manager Next week at Google Cloud Next ‘18 , you’ll be hearing abo...
Jenkins pipelines as YAML
Jenkins – an open source automation server which enables developers around the world to reliably build, test, and deploy their software
Backblaze Durability Is Eleven 9s – And Why It Doesn’t Matter
We’ve calculated Backblaze’s storage durability at 99.999999999%. What does that impressively large number mean, and does it actually matter for your data?
Amazon EC2 Instance Update – Faster Processors and More Memory
Last month I told you about the Nitro system and explained how it will allow us to broaden the selection of EC2 instances and to pick up the pace as we do so, with an ever-broadening selection of compute, storage, memory, and networking options. This will allow us to give you access to the latest […]
Implementing Open Source Container Security, Part 1: Runtime Security
Expert insight, best practices, and advice on Secure DevOps, security for containers, Kubernetes, and cloud services. Review Sysdig blog posts today!
AMD EPYC Performance Testing with systemd
With packet.net making bare metal servers available to cloud users, Percona CTO Vadim Tkachenko enjoys the opportunity to carry out some performance benchmarks with EPYC CPU, and experiences some surprising results running Percona Server for MySQL under systemd.
Why Kubernetes Is the New Application Server
Kubernetes and related technologies, such as Red Hat OpenShift and Istio, provide the non-functional requirements that used to be part of an application server and the additional capabilities
Google Cloud Platform – The Good, Bad, and Ugly
Looking for a cloud hosted Maven repository when working with Google Cloud? Sign up for a free 14-day trial of Deps Private Maven Repositories. Deps is a private, hosted, Maven repository. While building it I had a critical decision to make - Where to host it? I evaluated many different hosting services but decided on…
Gravwell Community Edition: A Splunk Alternative Built with Go
Initial Gravwell testers did a lot of home monitoring with the software and wanted to get licenses for their friends and colleagues but Gravwell was built for larger enterprises and our pricing model isn't set up for home use. All of that changes with the Community Edition...
Comparing Serverless Performance for CPU Bound Tasks
This post is a part of an ongoing series comparing the performance of Cloudflare Workers with other Serverless providers. In our past tests we intentionally chose a workload which imposes virtually no CPU load (returning the current time).
Introducing Jib — Build Java Docker images better
By Appu Goundan and Qingyang Chen Containers are bringing Java developers closer than ever to a "write once, run anywhere" workflow, but c...
An extensive ZFS setup on MacOS
DISCLAIMER: If you are in no way familiar or comfortable with the Terminal, this is not for you.
The Horrors of Upgrading Etcd Beneath Kubernetes
We dig into the challenges of in-place etcd upgrades beneath autonomous Kubernetes clusters running in air-gapped environments.
Walkthrough for Systemd Portable Services
Posts and writings by Lennart Poettering
Serverless Performance: Cloudflare Workers, Lambda and LambdaEdge
A few months ago we released a new way for people to run serverless Javascript called Cloudflare Workers. We believe Workers is the fastest way to execute serverless functions, but lets prove it.
Why you should not use Google Cloud
FINAL UPDATE (25-March-2022): Because of this article, we often keep getting asked if we still use GCP and if we would recommend it to…
Kubernetes 1.11 includes In-Cluster Service Load Balancing and CoreDNS
We’re pleased to announce the delivery of Kubernetes 1.11, our second release of 2018! Today’s release continues to advance maturity, scalability, and flexibility of Kubernetes, marking significant progress on features that the team has been hard at work on over the last year. This newest version graduates key…
Effectively using AWS Reserved Instances
Learn how Stripe uses AWS Reserved Instances and capacity planning to effectively manage a dynamic, scalable cloud infrastructure.
Cloud Filestore, high-performance file storage for GCP users
By Tad Hunt, Product Manager; Chris Talbott, Product Marketing As we celebrate the upcoming Los Angeles region for Google Cloud Platform ...
‘You can't use Brotli for dynamic content’ and other misconceptions
And other horses**t.
HashiCorp Consul 1.2: Service Mesh
Consul now provides secure service-to-service communication with automatic TLS encryption and identity-based authorization.
Docker Considered Harmful (2016)
A note in advance: This is absolutely not about Docker being too "opinionated" for me, or other tools being more flexible. I believe that learning and using Docker is just plain more complicated than learning and using the tools I describe below. Docker is genuinely more complex and harder to use than the…