Managing large-scale Redis clusters on Kubernetes with an operator – Kuaishou’s approach
Member post originally published on KubeBlocks by Yuxing Liu As a popular short-form video application, Kuaishou relies heavily on Redis to deliver low-latency responses to its users. Operating on private cloud infrastructure, automating the management of…
Platform Engineering needs Observability: here’s why
Blog post originally published on the Middleware blog by Sri Krishna In the high-stakes environment of Black Friday, e-commerce platforms encounter intense traffic surges that can heavily strain system performance. For example, during Black Friday 2023, online…
Reconsidering Kubernetes deployments: when operators are overkill
Member post originally published on the Devtron blog by Prakarsh TL:DR: Kubernetes Operators are powerful but can be overkill for simple deployments. Explore alternatives like Helm, ArgoCD, and Devtron to streamline your Kubernetes deployments without sacrificing…
What is authorization? Examples and definitions
Member post originally published on Cerbos’s blog by Omu Inetimi When building a secure application, there are plenty of factors to be considered. Who is allowed into the application, how users are allowed in, measures in…
Understanding k0s: a lightweight Kubernetes distribution for the community
Ambassador post by Prithvi Raj, CNCF Ambassador and Community Manager at Mirantis As Kubernetes continues to grow as the de-facto orchestration platform for containerized applications and is massively adopted by large, medium as well as small…
Announcing Linkerd 2.17: Egress, rate limiting, and federated services
Project post originally published on the Linkerd blog by William Morgan Today we’re happy to announce the release of Linkerd 2.17, a new version of Linkerd that introduces several major new features to the project: egress…
AWS CloudWatch metrics explained: how to monitor and optimize your cloud resources?
Member post originally published on the Middleware blog by Sanjay Suthar As your AWS environment expands—whether in terms of resources, the number of services, or even the scale of your team—managing these elements becomes increasingly challenging. With multiple…
Kubernetes at the edge using LINBIT SDS for persistent storage
Member post originally published on Linbit’s blog by Matt Kereczman Edge computing is a distributed computing paradigm that brings data processing and computation closer to the data source or “edge” of the network. This reduces latency…
How Fastly used Kubernetes to scale our platform engineering practice
Member post originally published on Fastly’s blog by Hannah Aubry About five years ago, Fastly had a problem with scale. No, not our network. Fastly’s network continues to scale effortlessly, including recently breezing past a 353…
Cloud Neutral Postgres Databases with Kubernetes and CloudNativePG
Member post by Gabriele Bartolini, VP Chief Architect of Kubernetes at EDB Abstract This article delves into the concept of cloud neutrality— a term I prefer over agnosticism— in PostgreSQL deployments. It highlights the transformative impact…