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.NET Core vs .NET Framework: How to Pick a .NET Runtime for an Application

So you're looking to build a .NET-based application but with .NET Core now floating around you're not sure which .NET runtime you should be using. In this post, we take a look at the various options and compare them to help you make that decision.

September 13, 2017

by Angela Stringfellow

· 14,022 Views · 16 Likes

Enabling Centralized Logging

Learn to build a centralized logging system using Splunk and ELK that can gather multiple application logs into a single service.

September 7, 2017

by Randhir Singh

· 71,058 Views · 24 Likes

A Service Mesh For Kubernetes Part XI: Egress

We've seen how Linkerd can serve as an ingress to a Kubernetes cluster, but it can also serve as an egress as well. Here's how to configure it.

September 6, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,625 Views · 4 Likes

Deploying a PHP App to Cloud Foundry

Deploying PHP apps to Cloud Foundry is simple, but fairly involved. Here are the steps to use Cloud Foundry or Bluemix's CLIs for the task.

September 6, 2017

by Rob Allen

· 5,866 Views · 3 Likes

The Skinny on Fat, Thin, Hollow, and Uber

Here's just about everything you could want to know about your favorite packaging techniques for Java—skinny JARs, fat/uber JARs, thin JARS, and hollow JARs.

September 5, 2017

by James Falkner

· 45,505 Views · 10 Likes

Bootstrapping Spring Cloud Config Server MongoDB

Bootstrapping a configuration server with Spring Cloud Config Server MongoDB is just a matter of three steps. Learn what they are and look at a usage example!

September 5, 2017

by Venil Noronha

· 8,839 Views · 5 Likes

How to Run a Docker Container on Your Local Machine

This quick walkthrough will show you how to dockerize and run an Angular2 app in a container on your local machine, with frequently used Docker commands.

September 4, 2017

by Suleyman Yildirim

· 187,309 Views · 4 Likes

Deploying and Running MySQL on Kubernetes With Statefulsets and Kops

Learn how to use Portworx on an AWS Kubernetes cluster using kops to bootstrap the cluster, with a focus on running a MySQL server and dealing with a failover scenario.

September 1, 2017

by Kai Davenport

· 20,310 Views · 2 Likes

A Kubernetes Service Mesh (Part 9): gRPC for Fun and Profit

Learn how to use Linkerd with gRPC, opening new doors for load balancing, service discovery, circuit breaking, and tracing logic.

September 1, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,485 Views · 3 Likes

Get Alerts When Docker Containers Run Into Issues

Learn how to get alerts when your Docker containers stop running or are unhealthy by querying the status via the Docker Unix socket file.

Updated August 31, 2017

by Denny Zhang

· 18,147 Views · 3 Likes

E2E Testing a React/Node.js Application With Cypress.io and Docker

Learn to make end-to-end web application testing better for developers while remaining a solid defense against software regressions and bugs.

August 31, 2017

by Dziamid Zayankouski

· 15,301 Views · 7 Likes

A Service Mesh for Kubernetes (Part 8): Linkerd as an Ingress Controller

Let's see how Linkerd works to route traffic, providing load balancing along the way, and can implement TLS for Kubernetes-based apps.

August 31, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 5,754 Views · 4 Likes

The Basics of the Docker Run Command

If you're new to using Docker, read this article to learn how to use basic code commands and make the best of them in Docker.

August 30, 2017

by Ben Cane

· 62,359 Views · 7 Likes

Apache Spark vs. MapReduce

How did Spark become so efficient in data processing compared to MapReduce? Learn about Spark's powerful stack of libraries and big data processing functionalities.

August 30, 2017

by Micah Williams

· 39,778 Views · 14 Likes

Running Apache Spark Applications in Docker Containers

Even once your Spark cluster is configured and ready, you still have a lot of work to do before you can run it in a Docker container. But these tips can help make it easier!

August 26, 2017

by Arseniy Tashoyan

· 55,138 Views · 4 Likes

Azure AD Connect: The Trouble With Expired Passwords

Password expiration is tricky with using Azure AD Connect, but a new tool, Pass Through Authentication, will bridge the gap between cloud and on prem password policies.

August 26, 2017

by Sam Cogan

· 17,967 Views · 2 Likes

Installing Windows 98 on VirtualBox on MacOS

With a blogger's attempt to install Windows 95 on VirtualBox on a MacOS box not ending well, he tries Windows 98 in the same environment. Will he be successful?

August 25, 2017

by Kevin Hooke

· 11,628 Views · 2 Likes

Defining HTTP Middleware and Best Practices

In order to capture API calls from arbitrary environments, we had to create middleware for many of the common web API frameworks. Here's what we learned.

August 25, 2017

by Xing Wang

· 11,230 Views · 2 Likes

How to Create an Oracle Database Docker Image

Containerizing databases makes a lot of sense—especially for dev and test environments. See how to containerize your Oracle Database with build files provided by Oracle.

August 25, 2017

by Gerald Venzl

· 62,921 Views · 10 Likes

Dockerizing Jenkins: Securing Passwords With docker-compose, docker-secret and Jenkins Credentials Plugin

Learn how to use docker-compose to run containers, and protect them with docker-secrets and the Jenkins credentials plugin.

August 23, 2017

by Kayan Azimov

· 37,318 Views · 4 Likes

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