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How to deploy your node app on Linux, 2016 edition
This time we do the work for you.
Lessons from Building a Node App in Docker
Here are some tips and tricks that I learned the hard way when developing and deploying web applications written for node.js using Docker.
Docker in Production: A retort
This blog covers various issues I encounter and the (sometimes creative) solutions I apply.
Is PaaS dead?
Is PaaS dead? Trends, pivots and troubles in PHP cloud hosting in 2015, seen from inside one of the companies competing in it.
Powering the Python Package Index
The Python Package Index, or as most call it “PyPI” is a central part of the ecosystem of Python. It serves as a central registry of names, helping to prevent collision between different projects as well as the default repository that most Python users go to when looking for software. Though it has its issues (of…
My Raspberry Pi cluster
So I accidentally ordered too many Raspberry Pi's. Therefore, I built a small cluster out of them. I thought I'd write up a parts list for o...
Sandstorm for Work Beta: LDAP, SAML, Organization Management
Take control of your web by running your own personal cloud server with Sandstorm.
New lower Azure pricing
As part of our continued commitment to deliver Azure to customers at the best possible prices, effective October 1st, we are lowering prices on many of our most popular virtual machines (VMs).
A Billion User Load Test on Healthcare.gov
By Brendan Neutra and Aimee Barciauskas
CoreOS and Redspread Join to Extend Kubernetes
No single cloud fits all. Explore how we build a more flexible future with hybrid cloud.
Update on InfluxDB Clustering, High Availability and Monetization
InfluxDB clustering is key for high availability and monetization. Clustering and high availability functionality will be available as part of our Influx Enterprise offering. Get a crash course on this topic and also read the newer version as well as u...
How We Automate Our Infrastructure
Explore technical topics, solutions, and resources for building with Twilio – and beyond.
Container Runtime Interface (CRI) in Kubernetes
Editor's note: this post is part of a series of in-depth articles on what's new in Kubernetes 1.5 At the lowest layers of a Kubernetes node is the software that, among other things, starts and stops containers. We call this the “Container Runtime”. The most widely known container runtime is Docker, but it is not alone…
Making 1M requests with Python-aiohttp
In this post I’d like to test limits of python aiohttp and check its performance in terms of requests per minute. Everyone knows that asynchronous code perf...
Why You Should Use Tumbleweed
People often ask me why they should use openSUSE Tumbleweed and how it compares to other distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu. The fact is Tumbleweed is actually rather hard, if not impossible to compare to Linux distributions like Fedora or Ubuntu.
Spotify's Kafka-Based Event Delivery System
Whenever a user performs an action in the Spotify client—such as listening to a song or searching for an artist—a small piece of information, an event, is sent to our servers. Event delivery, the process of making sure that all events gets transported safely from clients all over the world to our central processing…
Announcing Heroku Free SSL Beta and Flexible Dyno Hours
At Heroku, we want to make it easy for everyone to be able to learn and explore our service, and the related ecosystem of technologies, for free - be it...
InfluxDB 1.1: 60% performance increase and new query functionality
We are releasing InfluxDB 1.1, which includes a number of key performance and stability improvements as well as some new query capabilities.