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Building a Cloud Strategy That Delivers

Cloud strategy? It's not about fancy slideshows but shaking up how teams build and deploy. Master new skills. EmbraceSRE practiceslike it's your favorite hobby...

Building a Cloud Strategy That Delivers
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Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization

Cachingdoes more than rev up performance; it cuts through the chaos of software design, making it tidier and more modular. Sure,LRUandLFUsound like they should open for a prog rock band, but their trusty old formulas stand strong against those wild swings in data access...

Caching is an Abstraction, not an Optimization
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Insights from paper — Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data

Bigtableisn't just another footnote in Google's lineup. It dominates the data landscape, wrangling petabytes like a charm. Built for atomic row operations and sly tablet splits. Plus, it’s backed by Chubby’s fault-tolerance magic. Picture it as a NoSQL and relational database crossbreed with the fle..

Insights from paper — Bigtable: A Distributed Storage System for Structured Data
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Why Kubernetes Throttled My Idle Pods

70% CPU throttlingbaffled me in Kubernetes—minimal CPU usage, yet throttling? Alexandru Lazarev nailed it: ditch the CPU limits. Instant fix. Prometheus paints the spikes, while Grafana smooths them into a bore. Maybe those burstable CPU limits will swoop in to save us soon...

Why Kubernetes Throttled My Idle Pods
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Switching to eBPF One Step at a Time with Calico DNS Inline Policy

Calico Enterprise 3.21rolls out eBPF-driven DNS policies toiptables, slicing latency without needing an eBPF overhaul. EnterDNS inline mode: it outpaces competing DNS policies, kills retransmits, and zips up connections.Nftables?Still lagging in eBPF chops, but xtables—which they’ve put out to pastu..

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Improving Amazon ECS deployment consistency with SOCI Index Manifest v2

SOCI index manifest v2locks onto container images like a heat-seeking missile. It banishes AWS Fargate deployment gremlins and declutters index management. Switching to v2? Simple—deploy a shiny new CLI subcommand. Voilà, no more accidental SOCI index deletions wreaking havoc on your image indexes...

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Cloud Native App Local Development Made Easy with Microcks and Dapr

Dapr's sidecar model makes service talk a breeze.Microcks? It's all about pretending those pesky dependencies are there, so developers can run tests without spinning up an entire Kubernetes circus...

Cloud Native App Local Development Made Easy with Microcks and Dapr
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Mirantis Extends Swarm Support Another Five Years

Mirantisthrows a lifeline toSwarm, promising five more years of support. Why? Simplicity. Even as theKubernetesjuggernaut thunders on, over100clients hang tight to Swarm's straightforward charm.MKEcleverly blends these orchestrators, smoothing your path to Kubernetes while cranking up the security d..

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Running high-performance PostgreSQL on Azure Kubernetes Service

PostgreSQLpumps life into 36% ofKubernetesworkloads. Over at Azure, they've got localNVMestorage that's as fast as a hot knife through butter—perfect for those deployments that absolutely must defy gravity. For the budget-conscious,Premium SSD v2struts in offering beefy scalability. We're talking up..

Running high-performance PostgreSQL on Azure Kubernetes Service
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Basically Everyone Should Be Avoiding Docker

Docker’s magic? Slick deployment for the Unix-challenged. But here’s the catch: it ties skilled users in knots.Sure, it smooths some bumps, but at the price of freedom. Customizations? Troublesome. Troubleshooting? A nightmare. Simple tasks become tangled puzzles...