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If event time is very relevant and latencies in the seconds range are completely unacceptable, Kafka should be your first choice. Otherwise, Spark works just fine.

June 19, 2017

by Mahesh Chand Kandpal

· 141,175 Views · 31 Likes

How to Choose the Right DevOps Tools

Tools alone won't make you a DevOps aficionado, but they will support you on your DevOps journey. Read about the best tools for each step of your CI/CD process.

June 18, 2017

by Sarah Zorah

· 16,597 Views · 8 Likes

API Testing With Postman Collections in AWS CodePipeline

Learn how to setup an AWS CodePipeline to run Postman collections for testing REST APIs with AWS CodeCommit and CodeBuild.

June 16, 2017

by Unmesh Gundecha

· 14,764 Views · 3 Likes

A Graphical Notation for Kubernetes API Objects

The Kubernetes Deployment Language, or KDL, is standardizing their API objects into buckets, much like containerization.

June 15, 2017

by Kin Lane

· 5,026 Views · 3 Likes

A Service Mesh for Kubernetes (Part 3): Encrypting all the Things

Now that you've integrated linkerd with Kubernetes, it's important to add security to your communications by encrypting your HTTP calls with TLS.

June 15, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 6,481 Views · 3 Likes

Real Objects vs. Data Containers

This take on objects and object-oriented programming suggests converting data containers and structures into real objects, then tackles the performance issues involved.

June 13, 2017

by $$anonymous$$

· 22,535 Views · 29 Likes

How to Install the ELK Stack on Azure

Want to switch to the ELK Stack for your logging? Even better, want to get it running on your Azure cloud? This guide will walk you through setting up each component.

June 13, 2017

by PJ Hagerty

· 12,700 Views · 3 Likes

A Service Mesh For Kubernetes (Part 10): The Service Mesh API

Let's dive into using Linkerd's service mesh API and communications policies to handle services with variable latencies.

June 12, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 4,385 Views · 2 Likes

Identifying Duplicate Files in AWS S3 With Apache Spark

Using Spark, you can identify duplicate files in your S3 storage by calculating checksums. It's a quick, easy way to ensure you aren't carrying extra weight.

June 12, 2017

by Nikhil Bhide

· 17,284 Views · 9 Likes

Container Technologies Overview

Here's everything you need to know about containers, including how they compare to VMs, their advantages and disadvantages, and their varying types.

June 8, 2017

by Jatin Aneja

· 27,375 Views · 29 Likes

Run With Docker...Without Knowing Docker!

Even if you're not a Docker expert, you can take advantage of its reproducibility and ease-of-scaling benefits in your application.

June 7, 2017

by Israel Colomer

· 14,223 Views · 8 Likes

Exposing Microservices Over REST Protocol Buffers

Protocol Buffers are a high-performance alternative to text-based protocols like XML or JSON. Adapting them to a Spring Boot application is easy with these steps.

June 7, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 25,854 Views · 11 Likes

Resolving the Failure Issue of NameNode

NameNode is a single point of failure for the HDFS cluster. In this article, learn how to resolve the failure issue of NameNode.

June 6, 2017

by Shubhra Sharma

· 9,349 Views · 1 Like

Running Parallel Tests in Docker

If you try to run parallel tests in Docker, you may get an error from conflicting container names. Here's how to avoid that.

June 5, 2017

by Alex Soto

· 15,370 Views · 1 Like

The Pros and Cons of AWS Lambda

If you're considering getting your feet wet with serverless, be mindful that while AWS Lambda has plenty of benefits, you lose some control and call simplicity as well.

June 4, 2017

by Matt Billock

· 46,168 Views · 15 Likes

Enterprise vs. Startup Journey to Cloud [Comic]

''Here be dragons'' is a phrase that comes to mind when putting yourself in the shoes of an enterprise fighting to bring its legacy software in the cloud. On the other hand, ''free as a bird'' is quite fitting for the startup building a fresh cloud native app.

June 2, 2017

by Daniel Stori

CORE

· 20,661 Views · 30 Likes

Creating Microservices on the Pivotal Platform

Using the Pivotal platform gives you an easy way to deploy, scale, and monitor your microservices. Learn how to get it set up and running.

June 2, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 27,421 Views · 9 Likes

A Service Mesh for Kubernetes (Part 2): Pods Are Great Until They're Not

You can use linkerd as a service mesh with Kubernetes. In Part 2 of this series, see how and why you should install linkerd using DaemonSets.

May 31, 2017

by Alex Leong

· 4,412 Views · 4 Likes

Disruptor With Parallel Consumers vs. Multiple Worker Threads With Queues

In this article, we look at the performance of two concurrent architectures, one by using an executor thread pool and the other by using the disruptor.

May 31, 2017

by Sachini Siriwardene

· 22,386 Views · 17 Likes

Getting Started With Apache Ignite (Part 1)

In this series of articles, I will share what I learned about Apache Ignite as a beginner, starting with clustering and deployment.

May 29, 2017

by Akmal Chaudhri

CORE

· 17,249 Views · 17 Likes

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