Software Engineering
What Was Observability Again?
Imagine running a business without financial projections or even knowing how much money is left in the bank. How would you know if you are swimming in a huge cash buffer or if you need to skip a customer lunch due to insufficient funds? Without observing your financials it is simply impossible to run a …
Relaunching Kubernetes Community Days with KCD Africa, Bengaluru
We are excited to announce that we’re now reopening applications to run Kubernetes Community Days around the world with the first ones up being KCD Africa and KCD Bengaluru. Kubernetes Community Days were launched in 2019 but were put on hold during 2020 due to the pandemic. However, the cloud native community is a foundation …
Kubernetes – Bridging The Gap between 5G And Intelligent Edge Computing
Guest post originally published on the Msys Technologies blog by Ashish Sharma Prologue In the era of digital transformation, the 5G network is a leap forward. But frankly, the tall promises of the 5G network are cornering the edge computing technology to democratize data at a granular level. To add to the vows, 5G also …
DigitalOcean Launches Premium Droplets
DigitalOcean, the cloud for developers, startups and SMBs, announced new Premium Droplets plans with processors from Intel and AMD. The new Droplet types expand DigitalOcean’s Basic Droplet tier to offer faster performance and give customers the flexibility to choose the underlying hardware for their workloads. “As our customers grow their businesses and test ideas with …
31 Open Source Text Editors You Need To Try
Looking for a new text editor? Here are 31 options to consider. Computers are text-based, so the more things you do with them, the more you find yourself needing a text-editing application. And the more time you spend in a text editor, the more likely you are to demand more from whatever you use. If …
Application Modernization Isn’t Easy. But We Can Make It Easier.
Migrating and modernizing your application and moving to the cloud can be a really fun and interesting challenge. You can learn a lot through looking at solutions and architectures. But, If anyone tells you that migrating applications is “easy,” you probably stop listening immediately. The tools might be easy to use, but application migration is …
Assessing Reliability Risks On Kubernetes Clusters
The VMware Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) team is proud to announce an open source Reliability Scanner for Kubernetes! It includes an extensible set of reliability assessments, or checks, performed against various components of a cluster, such as Pods, Namespaces, Services, etc. Operators can then configure appropriate constraints for the checks on their clusters. Here is …
Red Hat Introduces Data Resilience For Enterprise Kubernetes Applications
Red Hat, Inc., the world’s leading provider of open source solutions, introduced new data resilience capabilities for cloud-native workloads with the release of Red Hat OpenShift Container Storage 4.6. This offering from Red Hat Data Services enables customers to extend their existing data protection solutions and infrastructure to enhance data resilience for cloud-native workloads across …
Eventarc: A Unified Eventing Experience In Google Cloud
I recently talked about orchestration versus choreography in connecting microservices and introduced Workflows for use cases that can benefit from a central orchestrator. I also mentioned Eventarc and Pub/Sub in the choreography camp for more loosely coupled event-driven architectures. In this blog post, I talk more about the unified eventing experience by Eventarc. What …
An Introduction To Kubernetes Security Using Falco
Guest post originally published on InfraCloud’s blog by Frederick Fernando Let’s talk about Kubernetes security As Kubernetes continues to grow in adoption, it is important for us to know how to secure it. In a dynamic infrastructure platform such as Kubernetes, detecting and addressing threats is important but also challenging at the same time. Falco, …