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GitHub Goes All in on Kubernetes
When GitHub launched in 2008, the site rode upon Ruby on Rails. Eight years in, however, the organization’s infrastructure had begun to strain beneath the load of the world’s leading version control...
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Behind the Scenes of Lyft’s New Application Service Mesh, Envoy
Last January, Lyft engineers shared how the car-sharing service moved its monolithic applications to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by way of Envoy, a home-grown, self-contained proxy server and...
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Orchestrating the DevOps Tool Chain: Stories from the Front Line
Ron Gidron, Automic Ron Gidron is product marketing director of release automation at Automic Software. He has spent the last 14 years in product marketing, product management and pre-sales positions...
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Eventador Applies Real-Time Data to Locating Victims of Hurricane Harvey
In a timely example of applying data to a pressing problem, Austin, Texas-based Eventador built a real-time system based on its platform providing real-time geolocation to get help to victims of...
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The Emerging GraphQL and Serverless Stack for Building Static Web Sites
Newer JavaScript libraries like Next.JS and Gatsby are seeing increased interest amongst single page app and static site developers who are looking for speed and low cost when building new websites at...
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Uber’s Serverless-Based Service Mesh, Catalyst, Speeds Application Development
When Shawn Burke was hired as staff engineer at Uber in 2015, he stepped into a company that was experiencing unprecedented growth. The number of people on the platform was scaling at an extraordinary...
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Loot Crate Launches a Swag Store on Google Container Engine
E-tailer Loot Crate provides a monthly subscription-based service of licensed, collectible products primarily related to gaming and pop culture. There’s a Stranger Things crate, a Fallout crate, and...
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Why Writing Great Docs Matters So Much to the UK’s Government Digital Service
So often, technical documentation has two audiences — internal and external users. And when your a government, your external users can potentially include all citizens. So how can you prioritize it...
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The SMACK Stack on Mesosphere’s DC/OS Gives Retailers a Path to Leave Amazon
Picture yourself as a software engineer with an up-and-coming Cincinnati-based IT provider called Astronomer. You’ve outfitted your operation with superb provisioning tools to get your customers...
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Mesosphere DC/OS Brings Large-Scale Real-Time Processing to Geospatial Data
All of a sudden, the planet Earth has become one of the world’s most important sources of real-time data. So the business of gathering that data — climate information, travel and commuting data, crime...
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Netflix Builds a Pipeline for Polyglot Programming
Once Netflix was a Java shop, and its focus on one programming language allowed the company to streamline its pipeline so developers to speed code to production as quickly as possible. But programmers...
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How Workday Bridges the Gap between Amazon and OpenStack
It was Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2016. At the AWS re:Invent conference in Las Vegas, Aneel Bhusri, the CEO and co-founder of enterprise resource planning service provider Workday, took the stage. Praising...
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Azure IoT Edge, Machine Learning and Containers
Cloud is a good fit for Internet of Things (IoT) because it provides both scale and connectivity to handle lots of sensor readings from large numbers of devices in different locations. The cloud,...
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No Grumpy Humans and Other Site Reliability Engineering Lessons from Google
“It’s really about communication, humility and trust,” said Google engineer Liz Fong-Jones of the emerging practice of site reliability engineering, at New Relic’s FutureStack New York 2017 last month....
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Platform-as-a-Service: The Key to Running a Continuous Deployment Pipeline
A six-year veteran of continuously deploying swarms of microservices to various Platform-as-a-Service environments, Ben Dodd kicked off a recent London Continuous Delivery Meetup by asking: What is the...
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Amtrak Rolls Past Containers into a Serverless Infrastructure
Serverless sufficiently lowers the barrier to entry so that companies that are currently on bare metal or virtual machines can leapfrog over container-based architectures altogether and straight into...
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PerceptIn Robotics Get a Performance Boost from Alluxio Distributed Storage
Shaoshan Liu Shaoshan Liu is currently chairman and co-founder of PerceptIn, working on developing the next-generation robotics platform. At PerceptIn, we build cutting-edge surveillance robots with...
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Typeform: To Go and Beyond
On today’s episode of The New Stack Makers, TNS founder Alex Williams spoke briefly with Typeform operations engineer Daniel Vidal de la Rubia to learn more about Typeform’s technology infrastructure,...
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It’s Mesos’ SMACK Stack versus Kubernetes’ Smart Clusters for Hosting Spark
It seemed like a very convincing argument made by more than one proponent during the last MesosCon 2017 conference in Los Angeles: Apache Mesos, they said, was better suited to running the Apache Spark...
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Airbnb uses React Router and Hypernova to Harvest Low-Hanging Performance Fruit
Just over a year ago, the person-to-person vacation rental site Airbnb began taking steps to accelerate its booking services via a more efficient stack setup. The idea: build a single-page,...
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