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In praise of memcached

Choose memcached as the default cache because it keeps the cache boundary clear. It offers no persistence, so your app must rebuild cached values from the source of truth after a restart or eviction. It also pushes failure handling into client code, so engineers must decide how the app behaves durin.. read more  

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Zero Trust in Hybrid Environments

🔐 Zero Trust isn’t just about identity — it’s about where identity is enforced. In hybrid and multi-cloud environments, security breaks when identity stops at login and doesn’t control traffic flow. Our latest article explores why the application delivery layer is becoming the new Zero Trust enfor..

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How to Load Balance Navitaire

✈️ Airline platforms can't afford downtime. Discover how RELIANOID helps improve the availability, performance, and security of Navitaire environments with load balancing, high availability, SSL offloading, and advanced protection capabilities. Read the 3-minute guide. 👇 https://www.relianoid.com/re..

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How to Fix Developer Productivity at 50+ Engineers

You ship a feature. It works. A week later, someone asks why it's not in staging yet, and you realize it's behind an infrastructure request that's still in review. The ticket isn't urgent enough to escalate. It's also not small enough to ignore. So it waits.

That's what a developer productivity problem feels like at 50 engineers.

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AI Reliability Engineering: The New Era of SRE

🤖 As AI becomes part of critical business operations, reliability is no longer just an infrastructure concern. From latency and model drift to observability and trust, AI workloads introduce a new set of challenges for modern SRE teams. In our latest article, we look at how reliability engineering i..

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k3d is an open-source utility designed to simplify running Kubernetes locally by wrapping K3s (Rancher’s lightweight Kubernetes distribution) inside Docker containers. Instead of creating virtual machines, k3d uses Docker as the execution layer, allowing developers to spin up multi-node Kubernetes clusters in seconds using minimal system resources.

k3d is especially popular for local development, CI pipelines, demos, and testing Kubernetes-native applications. It supports advanced setups such as multi-node clusters, load balancers, custom container registries, port mappings, and volume mounts, while remaining easy to tear down and recreate.

Because it uses K3s, k3d inherits a simplified control plane, bundled components, and reduced memory footprint compared to full Kubernetes distributions. This makes it ideal for developers who want a realistic Kubernetes environment without the overhead of tools like Minikube or full VM-based clusters.

k3d integrates cleanly with common Kubernetes workflows and tools such as kubectl, Helm, Skaffold, and Argo CD. It is frequently used to validate manifests, test Helm charts, and simulate production-like environments locally before deploying to cloud or on-prem clusters.