09/29/17
We successfully scaled our Windows Docker containers running on one Docker host. But what if we change our focus and see our distributed application as a whole? Read more
09/07/17
This blog post shows you how to use the modern, dynamic Traefik reverse proxy to deploy services and web applications. Read more
Ansible 2.1 introduced two features that make it possible to add proper debug logging to your playbooks, and also check and troubleshoot them on the fly, while they are executed. Read more
We were hit by sudden I/O hangs on random virtual machines. Any attempt to write to a its data volume would block forever. This post describes the analysis, cause, and remedy of the problem. Read more
03/27/17
Spark Streaming, Flink, Storm, Kafka Streams, ... The possibilities for stream processing are manifold. Time to bring some light into the dark. Read more
12/21/16
Leverage AWS API Gateway and AWS Lambda to integrate systems into your cloud infrastructure. Read more
Creating VRRP connected VMs on an OpenStack cloud is a non-trivial task. In this blog post I will walk you through this task. Read more
04/21/16
The SMACK stack is all the rage these days. Instead of just talking about it, this post is going to... Read more
11/17/15
In this post I explain my changes to the ambassador pattern I implemented during a microservices project earlier this year.... Read more
