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Cloud native projects & team culture power Allianz Direct’s CI/CD capabilities
End User Post Cloud native projects & team culture power Allianz Direct’s CI/CD capabilities
In 2019, 132-year old European financial services company Allianz SE founded Allianz Direct in response to disruption in the insurance space. To keep up with digital-first competitors, like the big four (GAFA), Allianz Direct developed digital models for...
February 23, 2022

Operating multiple high-density bare-metal clusters in a highly regulated industry
End User Post Operating multiple high-density bare-metal clusters in a highly regulated industry
mTLSing services with Linkerd at scale without impacting developer productivity  Guest post by Christian Hüning, Director Cloud Technologies & Switchkit at Finleap Connect At Finleap Connect, we operate multiple high-density bare-metal Kubernetes clusters with up to 5,000 pods...
February 23, 2022 | By Christian Hüning

Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
End User Post Salt came to Linkerd for load balancing, stayed for efficiency, reliability & performance
Salt Security is tackling the security challenges of today’s API-dependent applications. API requests can represent tens of thousands of opportunities per second for attacks or PII exposure. To combat these risks, Salt runs AI and ML against its...
February 9, 2022

Secrets management: essential when using Kubernetes
End User Post Secrets management: essential when using Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on True‘s blog by Sebastiaan Kok In Kubernetes secrets contain all kinds of sensitive information. For instance, database credentials or API keys. The term secrets management describes the centralised and secured management of these...
January 25, 2022 | By Sebastiaan Kok

KEDA at Zapier
End User Post KEDA at Zapier
End User guest post by Ratnadeep Debnath, Site Reliability Engineer at Zapier At Zapier, RabbitMQ is at the heart of Zap processing. We enqueue messages to RabbitMQ for each step in a Zap. These messages get consumed by...
January 21, 2022

Building a fault-tolerant application stack on top of a dynamic foundation
End User Post Building a fault-tolerant application stack on top of a dynamic foundation
Guest post by Mark Swarbrick, Head of Infrastructure at Bink Powering digital loyalty transactions of some of the biggest banks in the UK with Linkerd  Bink, a fintech company based in the UK, has made it their mission...
January 6, 2022 | By Mark Swarbrick

Improving platform efficiency, reliability, and performance in one week with Linkerd
End User Post Improving platform efficiency, reliability, and performance in one week with Linkerd
Guest post by Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir, Platform Team at Salt Security At Salt Security, we pioneered API security. Purpose-built to protect APIs across their entire life cycle, the Salt platform enables our customers to prevent API...
December 13, 2021 | By Eli Goldberg and Omri Zamir

Open source CloudWeGo
End User Post Open source CloudWeGo
Guest post originally published on CloudWeGo’s blog by ByteDance Architecture Team Background ByteDance is proud to announce the launch of open source software CloudWeGo. Focusing on microservice communication and governance, it offers high performance, strong extensibility, and high reliability...
October 7, 2021 | By ByteDance Architecture Team

How to get robust GitOps? The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flux and Helm
End User Post How to get robust GitOps? The U.S. Department of Defense uses Flux and Helm
Project post cross-posted from the Weaveworks blog by Tamao Nakahara, Head of Developer Experience, Weaveworks and Flux community manager Challenge The DoD knew that it needed GitOps. Nicolas M. Chaillan, Chief Software Officer of the U.S. Air Force...
September 30, 2021 | By Tamao Nakahara

How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd
End User Post How H-E-B achieved four nines of reliability using Kubernetes and Linkerd
Guest post by Justin Turner, Director of Engineering at H-E-B Reinventing ourselves when it mattered most 2020 was a challenging year for many of us, both personally and professionally. The COVID-19 pandemic dominated our daily activities and rapidly...
June 21, 2021