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Sticky Session Load Balancing (Part 2): MQTT Broker Clustering

This article introduces MQTT sessions and provisioning an HAProxy load balancer in front of the EMQ X cluster to take full advantage of the sticky-session load balancing.

January 29, 2022

by Zaiming (stone) Shi

· 21,248 Views · 3 Likes

An Overview of Popular Open-Source Kubernetes Tools

This article explains open-source Kubernetes tools used for development, monitoring, and deployment purposes that can improve your cloud-native experience.

January 29, 2022

by Samir Behara

· 7,013 Views · 8 Likes

Developing Your Criteria for Choosing APM Tool Providers

APM tools allow you to monitor and manage the performance and uptime of your applications. Learn helpful criteria for choosing an APM tool provider here.

January 29, 2022

by Wayne Yaddow

· 4,732 Views · 5 Likes

Kubernetes Security Guide: High-Level K8s Hardening Guide

This introduction combines best practices from the CNCF, NSA, and CISA to help organizations mitigate risks and adopt a multi-layered security approach.

January 29, 2022

by Yitaek Hwang

CORE

· 8,175 Views · 4 Likes

Building Microservices With gRPC and Java

Learn how to use gRPC, an open-source framework that can be used to build scalable and performant microservices and to create communication between services.

January 28, 2022

by Vinod Pahuja

· 10,654 Views · 9 Likes

Making APM a Company-Wide Effort

Take a closer look at how application performance management/monitoring (APM) can help manage expectations for performance, availability, and user experience.

January 28, 2022

by Joana Carvalho

· 4,637 Views · 4 Likes

OpenTelemetry Moves Past the Three Pillars

Here, learn the answer to questions about OpenTelemetry and predictions of several important trends that will continue to gain momentum over the next year.

January 28, 2022

by Ted Young

· 7,036 Views · 3 Likes

Hiding SOAP Legacy Applications Using the Mullet Pattern

Let's dive into supporting legacy-based applications while adding the next generation of microservices in talk with Aaron Weikle, the founder, and CEO at MS3.

January 28, 2022

by Kaitlyn Barnard

· 3,189 Views · 3 Likes

How to Simulate a DockerHub Outage to Test Image Caching

How we simulated a DockerHub outage on our AWS infrastructure to test our new pull-through image caching.

January 27, 2022

by Peter Valdez

· 8,862 Views · 3 Likes

Migration of Microservice Applications From WebLogic to Openshift

Learn from our experiences with seamless migration of Spring Boot microservices from WebLogic to OpenShift and practices for parallel running on both platforms.

January 27, 2022

by Taner Inal

· 4,957 Views · 4 Likes

Build an SMS App with Infobip

SMS is a powerful way to connect with your users. Let's build a “Fun Fact of the Day” web app using the SMS API from Infobip, a cloud communications platform.

January 27, 2022

by Tyler Hawkins

CORE

· 7,298 Views · 3 Likes

Docker: How to Stop and Remove All Containers at Once

See how to make the Docker command line easier to use and learn how to stop and remove containers.

January 26, 2022

by Eric Goebelbecker

CORE

· 5,155 Views · 4 Likes

Quantum Duality of API as a Business and a Technology

A lot of organizations are focusing on API programs, but they are looking at only one aspect of a two-sided problem that includes both business and technology.

Updated January 26, 2022

by Asanka Abeysinghe

· 6,408 Views · 3 Likes

Tutorial on Voice Technology Implementation

Discovering the possibilities of voice technology, by exploring its installation process and revealing the needed code and screens for a successful setup.

January 26, 2022

by Tetiana Stoyko

· 6,304 Views · 2 Likes

Managed Kubernetes Comparison: EKS vs GKE

Kubernetes is changing the tech space as it becomes prominent. This article explores and contrasts two of the most popular hosted clusters.

January 26, 2022

by Romaric Philogene

· 4,726 Views · 6 Likes

How to Monitor Endpoints in Kubernetes Using Blackbox Exporter

Learn how to achieve endpoint monitoring in Kubernetes using Blackbox Exporter and Prometheus including additional scenarios.

January 26, 2022

by Suramya Shah

· 7,419 Views · 2 Likes

A New Approach to Solve I/O Challenges in the Machine Learning Pipeline

This blog in our machine learning series compares the traditional solutions with Alluxio's in solving I/O challenges in the machine learning pipeline.

January 26, 2022

by Bin Fan

· 4,195 Views · 2 Likes

The Future of Cloud-Native Databases Begins With Apache Cassandra 4.0

With the release of Cassandra 4.0, we are seeing the beginning of what’s next for a proven database and the cloud-native applications that will be built in the future.

January 26, 2022

by Patrick McFadin

· 5,880 Views · 3 Likes

Best Practices: 5 Risks To Assess for Secure CI Pipeline

Software development process automation comes with its drawbacks. To keep your code safe, you should add these security practices to your CI pipeline.

January 26, 2022

by C.J. May

· 6,381 Views · 2 Likes

Import Data Into CockroachDB With Kerberos Authentication

A customer had asked how to leverage bulk utilities in CockroachDB while authenticated via Kerberos.

January 26, 2022

by Artem Ervits

CORE

· 5,355 Views · 3 Likes

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