Aug
24,
2021
KISS of Death by Complexity?
KISS means: Keep it simple, stupid! In other words: Don't make it unnecessarily complicated. That sounds good and desirable. But don't we tend to do the opposite in practice? If you look around, we are up to our necks in complexity. Instead of doing something about it, we are busy...
Aug
9,
2021
Microservices after the hype
And now? Microservices have been the center of attention for years. Time to draw a conclusion and show how microservices have influenced software development.
Jul
14,
2021
Through the Galaxy with Microframeworks
In software development, nothing is as constant as change: The last few years have been characterized by the microservices trend and the associated move away from heavyweight, monolithic applications to smaller, cloud-based services and, most recently, serverless computing.
Jun
1,
2021
AWS Auto Scaling: Getting it Right
AWS Auto Scaling lets you automatically scale AWS resources up and down. AWS Auto Scaling comes with a single user console interface, which enables you to configure auto scaling across multiple AWS resources and services, for entire applications or individual resources.
May
10,
2021
Next Level Automation
DevOps for Machine Learning, or MLOps, is new on the scene. The differences between MLOps and mainstream DevOps practices are not yet widely understood. We can understand MLOps practices better by looking at the needs that drive them. Let’s consider what we see in advanced MLOps projects and what needs...
Mar
31,
2021
Cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra — Part 3
Part 3: Data on Kubernetes Served with Love <br/>
What can we accomplish as a community when we work together? If the Apache Cassandra community is any proof, quite a bit. We’ve built a pretty amazing database over the past 10+ years. We’ve also helped each other when learning how to...
Mar
10,
2021
Cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra – Part 2
Managing data at scale is a big challenge. Aside from simply having lots of data, we have to be able to use it effectively over time. How we index our data can make it easier to use, but that indexing approach can evolve over time based on what we want...
Jan
18,
2021
XDR: The Next Generation of Endpoint Security
The history of endpoint security has gone through many stages. Yet, in 2021, our tools and processes are no longer necessarily appropriate to the threats. A new generation is needed to address current threats. One possible solution is XDR - Extended Detection and Response.
Dec
7,
2020
Cloud-native applications and data with Kubernetes and Apache Cassandra – Part 1
Over the past twenty years, there have been several big trends in distributed computing. Today, we have more developers using microservices designs to decompose applications into smaller and more manageable units. Apache Cassandra was built for cloud data and is now becoming the choice of developers for cloud native applications.
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Dec
2,
2020
Happy Socks Holiday Season Giveaway
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