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Write operators for databases in Kubernetes with KubeDB

Running production quality databases in Kubernetes can be quite a hassle. But KubeDB promises to solve all your problems. Let’s have a quick look at this framework.

Kubernetes Failure Stories

I started to compile a list of public failure/horror stories related to Kubernetes. It should make it easier for people tasked with operations to find outage reports to learn from. Since we started with Kubernetes at Zalando in 2016, we collected many internal postmortems.

Lasers vs. Microwaves: The Billion-Dollar Bet on the Future of Magnetic Storage

Deployment strategies for the Jaeger Agent

If you’ve been following the evolution of the Kubernetes templates for Jaeger, you might have noticed an important change recently: the Jaeger Agent is not being deployed as a DaemonSet anymore. Instead, instructions are now being provided on how to deploy it as a “Sidecar”. The Agent component was developed to act as a “buffer” between the tracer and the collector.

A Crash Course For Running Istio

At Namely we’ve been running with Istio for a year now. Yes, that’s pretty much when it first came out. We had a major performance regression with a Kubernetes cluster, we wanted distributed tracing, and used Istio to bootstrap Jaeger to investigate.

Understanding How Envoy Sidecar Intercept and Route Traffic in Istio Service Mesh

How to Ship an App Rewrite Without Risking Your Entire Business

PostgreSQL across clouds and on-premises

PostgreSQL is a very popular open source relational database. It’s been in active development for over 30 years and has achieved a very high level of reliability and performance, as well as a very robust feature set.

The Biggest IT Failures of 2018

This year provedonce againthat IT-related failures “are universally unprejudiced: they happen in every country; to large companies and small; in commercial, nonprofit, and governmental organizations; and without regard to status or reputation.” Below is a review that just scratches the surface of the sundry failures, glitches, and other IT hiccups that made the news in 2018. This year saw a slight reduction in the number of flight cancellations and delays due to computer-related problems as compared with the past three years, especially in the United States.

AWS Outperforms GCP in the 2018 Cloud Report

Customers rely on us to help navigate the complexities of the increasingly competitive cloud wars. This inspired the 2018 Cloud Computing Report, where we benchmark performance, latency, CPU, network, I/O, and cost of AWS and GCP. Note: As of December 20, 2018, we have updated two sections in this report: Network Throughput and I/O Experiment.