Building a large-scale distributed storage system based on Raft
Guest post by Edward Huang, Co-founder & CTO of PingCAP In recent years, building a large-scale distributed storage system has become a hot topic. Distributed consensus algorithms like Paxos and Raft are the focus of many technical articles. But those articles tend…
For Jeff Brewer, the value of moving to cloud native is seen over and over again when Intuit developers receive feedback from their customers minutes after they’ve written the code. “Those are the wow moments,” says…
5 Kubernetes RBAC mistakes you must avoid
Guest post by Connor Gilbert, originally published on StackRox If you run workloads in Kubernetes, you know how much important data is accessible through the Kubernetes API-from details of deployments to persistent storage configurations to secrets….
Founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, Bloomberg L.P. lives at the nexus of finance, technology, and media. With its Terminal, the company runs one of the largest private networks in the world. Every day it deals…
Since 2005, the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) program has accepted thousands of university students from around the world to spend their summer holiday writing code and learning about the open source community. This year GSoC accepted 1,276 students from…
China’s largest retailer and the world’s third-largest Internet company by revenue, JD.com serves more than 300 million active customers with its e-commerce business. The company also owns China’s largest e-commerce logistics infrastructure, which covers an incredible…
A spinoff of the multinational conglomerate Alibaba, Ant Financial boasts a $150+ billion valuation and the scale to match. The fintech startup, launched in 2014, is comprised of Alipay, the world’s largest online payment platform, and…
Demystifying containers – part II: container runtimes
This blog post was first published on suse.com by Sascha Grunert. This series of blog posts and corresponding talks aims to provide you with a pragmatic view on containers from a historic perspective. Together we will discover…
STORK, storage operator for Multi-Cloud deployments
STORK (STorage Operator Runtime for Kubernetes), an open-source project, leverages the Operator SDK to provide better life cycle management of your persistent data for your stateful application in Kubernetes. STORK addresses challenges of storage layer observability…
Going Big: Harbor 1.8 takes security and replication to new heights
By Michael Michael, Harbor Core Maintainer, Director of Product Management, VMware (Twitter: @michmike77) Happy release day everyone! We are very excited to present the latest release of Harbor. The release cycle for version 1.8 was one of…