Today we are announcing the open source release of gh-ost: GitHub’s triggerless online schema migration tool for MySQL.

In this episode I talk to James Cammarata, head of Ansible core engineering to discuss the Ansible project. We discuss how it’s used as a config management tool in both a push/pull scenario, how Ansible can be used as a deployment tool and an orchestrator. We touch on the terminology, Red Hat’s acquisition, ideal use cases, […]

WebGL visualization for displaying animated traffic graphs - Netflix/vizceral

Writing a great Pull Request takes time. It can be a scary proposition going in. Did I implement something relevant? Will they like my changes? Will the PR meet their expectations? How much scrutiny can I expect?

Manage Lets Encrypt certificates for a Kubernetes cluster. - kelseyhightower/kube-cert-manager

Monitoring is one of the pillars of successful infrastructure. Read our blog and learn how to monitor Kubernetes with Prometheus.

This post presents a suggestion for a docker monitoring solution combining two awesome tools already at your disposal: Netflix Vizceral and…

Learn some etiquette, man.

We've been using Consul for about 18 months at Datadog and it's an important part of our production stack. In this post we will discuss some of the lessons we have learned.

Serverless architectures replace a managed server with a collection of third party services and FaaS

See your latest local git branches, formatted real fancy - paulirish/git-recent

Last week, the total number of image pulls from the Docker Hub Repository Service reached 5 billion. That’s an increase of 150% since just February. It’s pretty amazing for a three year old project. Docker Hub has become a part of the daily life of developers because it Is a central, reliable, and secure service to host your own repositories and get access to high quality images The repository service also serves Docker Cloud repos and in fact with your existing content and subscriptions That means the over 650,000 registered users are pulling images over 13000 times a minute. That’s almost twice as fast as in February when we had 7000 pulls a minute. Equally interesting, the total number of pulls of official images exceeded 1 billion at the same time. The Docker Official Repositories are a curated set of image repositories that are promoted on…

Together with our colleagues at the University of Hamburg, we — that is Felix Gessert, Wolfram Wingerath, Steffen Friedrich and Norbert…

How much kernel versions influence PostgreSQL performance? Is it worth upgrading to a new kernel version, or are you fine with the ancient 2.6.x kernel?