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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

· 44,803 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

· 19,776 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

· 24,389 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

· 20,961 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

· 16,619 Views · 17 Likes

Multi-Stage Docker Image Build for Java Apps

No longer do you have to manage multiple Dockerfiles and use the Builder Pattern. Now, you can save time by creating a multi-stage build process for your Java apps.

May 26, 2017

by Shekhar Gulati

· 36,236 Views · 3 Likes

ElasticSearch: Advantages, Case Studies, and Stats

ElasticSearch is an open-source, broadly distributable, readily scalable, enterprise-grade search engine. Look more closely into what it is, its advantages, and stats.

May 26, 2017

by Ekaterina Novoseltseva

CORE

· 32,490 Views · 15 Likes

Deploying Docker Images to OpenShift

We take a look at how to deploy a Docker image from DockerHub into RedHat's OpenShift environment, bringing added functionality along the way.

May 26, 2017

by Alex Soto

· 39,245 Views · 5 Likes

5 Docker Utilities You Should Know

The Docker community has created many open source utilities, making it helpful with even more use cases than you might imagine. Check them out here.

May 26, 2017

by Shekhar Gulati

· 22,526 Views · 42 Likes

Deploying Envoy as an API Gateway for Microservices

An API Gateway sits between consumers and producers, running authentication, monitoring, and traffic management. Learn to use Envoy as an API Gateway.

May 25, 2017

by - Flynn

· 40,698 Views · 4 Likes

JPA Caching With Hazelcast, Hibernate, and Spring Boot

In-memory data grids are often used to enhance performance. Learn how to use Hazelcast for caching data stored in the MySQL database accessed by Spring Data DAO objects.

May 24, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 35,946 Views · 9 Likes

Using Your Personal Credit Card for Cloud Services? Beware the Risks!

Eager to get started with cloud services? Those who opt to use their personal credit card for work-based initiatives could be surprised at the legal ramifications.

May 24, 2017

by John Vester

CORE

· 61,972 Views · 2 Likes

SQL Server Database Cloning on AWS

Database clones are great for Dev and Test environments, allowing devs to work with lightweight images in preparation for cloud deployments.

May 23, 2017

by Paul Stanton

· 5,854 Views · 3 Likes

Create Microservices and Set Up a Microservice Architecture With MariaDB, Docker, and Go

During this post, we talk about what microservices are, the architecture of a photo-sharing app, how to bootstrap the app, and how to scale parts of the application.

May 22, 2017

by Bjorge Staijen

· 8,210 Views · 16 Likes

Fighting Service Latency in Microservices With Kubernetes

Sometimes when moving to a microservices-based architecture, latency creeps in. What can you do to fight it and keep it down? Look at some suggestions using Kubernetes.

May 19, 2017

by Bilgin Ibryam

· 12,358 Views · 5 Likes

AWS CloudTrail Log Analysis With the ELK Stack

CloudTrail is a useful tool for monitoring access and usage of your AWS-based IT environment. You can find lots of valuable information in the data with Kibana.

May 18, 2017

by Daniel Berman

· 10,090 Views · 2 Likes

A Glossary of 37 Modern Data Center Terms You Need to Know

Whether you're a network engineer or a software developer, being familiar with terms used to discuss data centers is important to any modern technology career.

Updated May 18, 2017

by Rob Whiteley

· 11,118 Views · 2 Likes

Deploy a Golang Web Application and Couchbase as Docker Containers

Learn how to deploy a Golang web application as a Docker container alongside Couchbase using microservices and Docker images.

May 17, 2017

by Nic Raboy

· 4,658 Views · 1 Like

Apache Karaf Microservices

Apache Karaf provides a lightweight container for deploying various components and applications. Learn to set up Karaf on Docker.

May 16, 2017

by Piotr Mińkowski

· 24,003 Views · 12 Likes

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