Architecture

Everyone is eager to shift left these days. And Kubernetes is a significant aspect of this move. Enterprises recognize this and are quick to go all-in with the container orchestration platform. But soon after adopting Kubernetes, organizations come to realize that technical debt and constant maintenance tend to outweigh the value. This means that Kubernetes ends up hogging all the attention meant for running cloud-native infrastructure efficiently.  Nearly a decade has passed since the wildly...

Teams across all market industries have adopted a DevOps way of working to release new versions of their applications. Pushing application source code through your CI/CD pipeline which leads to running applications (components) in production is carried out without much hassle. Contrary to this are database (related) changes that have a significant effect on the applications referenced earlier. Often this leads to the slowdown of new releases. You might need help here. Database changes...

Chaos Engineering is well on its way to the top of the Garner Hype Cycle. Organizations as well as individuals pick this up as we speak. New initiatives, services, and tools emerge. Furthermore, cloud providers offer their Chaos Engineering-related services to attract IT professionals to extend the usage of their cloud platforms. So what's good to know to actually get started with this new trend? In this article, we'll explore various resources and topics...

It is time to start looking at the next new release of Terraform, the current latest and greatest (at time of writing) version is 1.3.8, was released on the 9th of February. This version was a minor bug-fixing release and should not change any current behaviour of your code base.  We have outlined the bugs as taken from the release site in full below: BUG FIXES: Fixed a rare bug causing inaccurate before_sensitive / after_sensitive annotations in...

In our last post, What is a Service Mesh? I said Mesh, not Mess, we introduced the concepts of a service mesh and explained how it differs from Service Discovery and API gateways.  In that article, we talked about the architecture, and introduced the concepts of the solutions, and explained several use cases. In this article, we start our journey into deploying a Service Mesh based on Consul, a Hashicorp product. Why Consul as a Service...

One thing that is constant with IT is that change is the norm and buzzword bingo is a game we play every meeting.   The phrase of the day is Service Mesh, you know me I love a definition, so according to Gartner a service mesh is: A service mesh is distributed middleware that optimizes communications between application services, especially on microservices. Well, that clears that up perfectly, sounds like RabbitMQ. And on a very-very high level...

For long Java is one of the most popular programming languages that developers use. It's been there for more than 20 years and the developer community is huge. Java enables you to write many different types of applications: Enterprise applications, Desktop GUI applications, and Mobile applications to name a few. It's also possible to write Cloud-based applications. Container technology also has its place in this ecosystem. Since Java applications are run through a so-called...

Unlike a couple of years before, cloud security is not an afterthought anymore. As pointed out in the App-Sec article published recently, it remains in the top 3 priorities of relevant security topics in 2023. Cloud workloads are difficult to protect due to the dynamic behavior and the number of moving parts. On top of that, DevOps teams need to learn to apply security measurements properly. Security teams struggle with the huge number of...

Every company that is in the process to migrate its application(s) to the cloud faces challenges on multiple ends. Since a simple "lift and shift" approach would not always satisfy the business' needs, those companies need to refactor their applications and infrastructure components to fit the best cloud solution. Many DevOps teams need to learn how to implement these solutions. Sometimes based on (initial) experiments and/or with trial and error. This is time-consuming and...

There is no doubt that, in recent years, Kubernetes startups are soaring, and for good reason. With major acquisitions, prosperous funding rounds and leaps in innovation, 2022 has been thrilling for this space. This list was chosen based on the firms that stood out to us in recent years for their innovation and growth and are anticipated to have even more of an impact on the market in 2023. 1. Rezonate Co-Founder, CEO: Roy Akerman HQ: Tel...