Building a fault-tolerant application stack on top of a dynamic foundation A fintech company based in the UK, Bink has made it its mission to reimagine loyalty programs — making them easier for everyone, including banks,…
Modern application load Balancing with a centralized control plane
Guest post originally published on Snapt’s blog by Armand Sultantono A centralized control plane for application delivery allows you to use a single platform for all of your application delivery needs. It unites teams involved in…
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…
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…
A cloud-like on-prem load balancer for Kubernetes?
Guest post originally published on Netris’s blog by Alex Saroyan Everyone knows that using a Kubernetes Load Balancer is a challenge. Back in the day when I was responsible for network operations, the load balancer management…
Introducing Opta: Terraform on Rails
Guest post by Ankur Dahiya, RunX Engineers today work inside a perpetual good news-bad news dichotomy. On one hand, the tools, infrastructure and capabilities at their disposal give them what an engineer ten years ago would…
Principles for designing and deploying scalable applications on Kubernetes
Guest post originally published on Elastisys’ blog by the Elastisys‘ team Designing scalable cloud native applications requires considerable thought, as there are many challenges to overcome. Even with the great clouds we have today for deploying…
Chaos Mesh moves to the CNCF Incubator
The CNCF Technical Oversight Committee (TOC) has voted to accept Chaos Mesh as a CNCF incubating project. Initially created as a testing platform for the open source distributed database, TiDB, Chaos Mesh is a versatile chaos…
Managing public cloud resources for deep learning training: experiments and lessons learned
Guest post by Anne Holler, Chi Su, Travis Addair, Henry Prêcheur, Paweł Bojanowski, Madhuri Yechuri, and Richard Liaw INTRODUCTION Deep Learning (DL) has been successfully applied to many fields, including computer vision, natural language, business, and…
Allianz disrupts itself with Allianz Direct Allianz SE is a 132-year-old multinational financial services company headquartered in Munich, Germany. It offers a range of insurance products in areas including life, health, auto, as well as asset…