Rust vs. Go? Which language today offers the magic combination of simplicity and power? Both Rust and Go appear to be systems programming languages, both compile to machine code and both provide stellar performance. So, how do you decide which
There are lots of tools out there to help you develop on Kubernetes, whether you are writing an app alone or in a team environment. Several of them, such as Minikube, Minishift and Docker for Windows/Mac, support pure offline development,
There are many messaging products in the market; but two of the most popular open source messaging technologies available today are RabbitMQ and Apache Kafka. Which software is right for you? Each has its own story, design framework, set of
Containerization has been swiftly gathering momentum in the IT industry with Gartner predicting that 50% of companies will use some element of container technology by 2020, up from under 20% in 2017. Kubernetes (also known as K8S) is the leading
The Context There is a widespread belief that Kubernetes isn’t ready for stateful applications like MySQL and MongoDB. It has even been asked if running stateful applications in Kubernetes is worth the risk, but developer Kris Nova from Heptio asks
The Context Before we focus on distributed tracing, let’s pull back to look at microservices as a whole. For greenfield applications, microservices have become a default choice. They offer the kind of decoupling necessary to allow developers to fully transform
At the end of November, Fastly announced the launch of Fastly Labs, “a hub of in-progress projects and experimental ideas we’re opening up to the developer community at large”, and shared three new projects with the community: Terrarium (a multi-language
Section, the next-gen edge PaaS, has built business from the start by targeting engineers who want to program at the edge. Similarly to a traditional CDN, Section’s platform sits between its client’s infrastructure and the end user to intercept traffic.
Algorithmia is an AI startup that offers access to a catalog of 3,500 algorithms, functions and machine-learning models in a widespread bid to change how algorithms are used. The startup has received funding from Google; Anna Patterson, VP of Engineering
Protocol buffers, also known as Protobuf, is a protocol that Google developed internally to enable serialization and deserialization of structured data between different services. Google’s design goal was to create a better method than XML to make systems communicate with
In this post, we will run a high-level comparison between three Java ‘build’ tools: Gradle, Maven and Ant. A build tool is a software that creates an executable or production ready version of your project. A build tool compiles files,
Continuous delivery (CD) platforms help DevOps teams manage software releases in short cycles, ensuring they are delivered safely, reliably and quickly. The goal is to reduce the costs, time and associated risks connected to building, testing and delivering changes by
Edge cloud platform provider Fastly just announced Platform TLS, a service designed to automate, configure and scale Transport Layer Security (TLS) certificates. In doing so, they join other edge PaaS CDNs like section.io that already offer SSL or TLS certificates
Microsoft has decided to open source the code behind ONE, the system that emulates the global network powering the Azure cloud to help reduce network outages. What is ONE or the Open Network Emulator? The system is called the Open
Stateful vs. Stateless – An Overview The key difference between stateful and stateless applications is that stateless applications don’t “store” data whereas stateful applications require backing storage. Stateful applications like the Cassandra, MongoDB and mySQL databases all require some type
