Cloud Architecture Resources

Getting Started With Kubernetes 1.4 using Spring Boot and Couchbase

Here's a look at containerized microservices using Kubernetes to host a Java Spring Boot application, accessing Couchbase with the newest Kubernetes platform.

September 30, 2016

by Arun Gupta

· 9,031 Views · 5 Likes

Testing REST Services With Pyresttest

A few lines of YAML is all that it takes in order to test a REST service. It's pretty simple. Alan Hohn has all of the details.

September 30, 2016

by Alan Hohn

· 9,710 Views · 3 Likes

Spring Cloud Netflix: Load Balancer with Ribbon/Feign

The idea in this post is to show some concepts about load balancing, Ribbon and Feign, and step by step process for working with Ribbon and Feign.

September 29, 2016

by Rafael Salerno

· 114,786 Views · 23 Likes

IOPS: Benchmarking Disk I/O – AWS vs DigitalOcean

In this article, we will see how to do this and we will compare the performance between two different providers.

September 26, 2016

by Christopher Sam K

· 37,508 Views · 6 Likes

AWS and Azure: SLAs and Service Credits

See how both AWS and Microsoft Azure handle breaches to their SLAs with this head-to-head comparison. Learn how each rewards users if their service goes down.

September 26, 2016

by Christopher Sam K

· 22,334 Views · 2 Likes

Head to Head: Apache Impala vs. Amazon Redshift

See up-close comparisons of Impala and Redshift, complete with benchmarks and feature comparisons.

September 23, 2016

by Mostafa Mokhtar

· 10,467 Views · 2 Likes

OpenStack: Core Components

OpenStack is an open source cloud software which consists of a series of allied projects controlling large pools of computing, storage, and network resources in a data center while managing through a dashboard. Let's look in detail at its various core components.

Updated September 19, 2016

by Sree Tejaswi

· 75,097 Views · 22 Likes

Monitoring Docker Containers with Elasticsearch and Cadvisor

If you run a Swarm Mode cluster or even one Docker engine, you've likely wondered how to keep track of all that's happening. Read for tips on monitoring your containers.

Updated September 17, 2016

by Lorenzo Fontana

· 12,817 Views · 9 Likes

Hazelcast vs ElastiCache (Memcached)

This article compares Hazelcast to the Amazon Web Services ElastiCache Memcached Engine. Cost, Features, Node Management, Fault Tolerance, Monitoring, and Performance are all evaluated.

September 16, 2016

by Terry Walters

· 10,323 Views · 11 Likes

Making Web UI Testing Great Again With Arquillian, Docker, and Selenium

Arquillian Cube is an extension that automatically handles Docker Compose, so you can test on Docker containers without any manual intervention.

Updated September 12, 2016

by Alex Soto

· 4,878 Views · 5 Likes

Event-Driven Microservices With Vert.x and Kubernetes (Part 1 of 3)

Learn how to set up an event-driven microservices architecture using Vert.x's Verticle class. This introductory post covers how to use and configure Vert.x.

September 12, 2016

by Andy Moncsek

· 27,899 Views · 11 Likes

Which Cloud Platform Is Ideal to Host IoT Apps?

The cloud helps put the 'I' in IoT. See which platforms are making the move to support IoT and what they offer.

Updated September 9, 2016

by Milita Datta

· 16,459 Views · 11 Likes

The Great Feature of Vagrant: Multi-Machine Management

How to utilize Vagrant's ability to improve VirtualBox by managing and repairing your virtual machines.

September 8, 2016

by Rafael Salerno

· 7,137 Views · 3 Likes

Containerizing Stateful Applications

Can stateful applications be containerized? Or are containers only good for stateless applications?

September 7, 2016

by Jim Bugwadia

· 17,688 Views · 13 Likes

Simple Sample: Oracle NoSQL With Docker Compose

This quick example demonstrates the usage of Docker Compose co-ordinating an Oracle NoSQL container and a dependent container running its (Java) client.

September 7, 2016

by Abhishek Gupta

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