Published in Geek Culture·PinnedMember-onlyState of Managed Kubernetes 2021EKS vs. AKS vs. GKE from a Developer’s Perspective (2021 Edition) Kubernetes turns seven on June 7th, with the stable release now at v1.21. As Kubernetes began to rule the container orchestration world, use of containers in production also quickly became the norm, with more than 23% of CNCF survey…Kubernetes9 min readKubernetes9 min read
Published in ITNEXT·PinnedMember-onlyEKS Blueprints: IaC Modules for Production-Ready KubernetesBootstrap a fully-featured Kubernetes cluster on AWS with EKS Blueprints via Terraform and AWS CDK. Earlier this week, AWS team announced EKS Blueprints, a collection of open-source, infrastructure as code (IaC) modules to bootstrap an EKS cluster with popular Kubernetes tools such as Prometheus, Karpenter, Nginx, Traefik, AWS Load Balancer…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in ITNEXT·PinnedMember-onlyHow to Design and Provision a Production-Ready EKS ClusterA comprehensive guide to create and configure a production-grade Kubernetes cluster on AWS with Terraform, Helm, and other open-source tools. According to Flexera’s 2021 State of Cloud report, AWS leads the container orchestration market share with 51% of the respondents using Amazon EKS and ECS compared to 43% for AKS…Kubernetes8 min readKubernetes8 min read
Published in ITNEXT·PinnedMember-onlyKarpenter: Open-Source, High-Performance Kubernetes Cluster AutoscalerKubernetes-native cluster autoscaler is now production-ready according to AWS. At re:Invent 2021, AWS announced the v0.5.0 release of Karpenter, marking its open-source, Kubernetes node provisioning project as production ready. …Kubernetes3 min readKubernetes3 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·PinnedMember-onlyHelm 101 for DevelopersHow to use, create, and publish Helm charts for non-Kubernetes experts As Kubernetes continues to eat the container orchestration world, developers are inevitably forced to interact with Kubernetes either for local development or code delivery. Even in organizations with a dedicated platform team or DevOps engineers, developers still need to…Kubernetes8 min readKubernetes8 min read
Published in Dev Genius·Nov 1Member-onlyData Lifecycle with QuestDBFor most applications dealing with time series data, the value of each data point diminishes over time as the granularity of the dataset loses relevance as it gets stale. For example, when applying a real-time anomaly detection model, more granular data (e.g., data collected at second resolution), would yield better…Data Science5 min readData Science5 min read
Published in Level Up Coding·Oct 20Member-onlyLessons Learned from Upgrading to PostgreSQL 13Documenting performance improvements with VACUUM, ANALYZE, and REINDEX as well as some AWS RDS surprises. With the PostgreSQL community planning to deprecate support for PostgreSQL 10 after November 10, 2022 and AWS RDS following suit in April 17, 2023, I was recently tasked with upgrading our database to PostgreSQL 13…AWS4 min readAWS4 min read
Published in Better Programming·Jun 13Member-onlySimplifying Kubernetes CI/CD With DevtronHow to allow developers to implement an effective CI/CD pipeline without dealing with YAML — When organizations think of fostering a DevOps culture, building out an effective continuous integration (CI) and continuous deployment (CD) pipeline is usually brought up as the first step to success. Nowadays, infrastructure teams have a plethora of both open-source and licensed tools such as Jenkins, CircleCI, Github Actions, and ArgoCD…Kubernetes5 min readKubernetes5 min read
Published in CoinsBench·Mar 28Member-onlyOverview of the Most Important ERC Token StandardsA brief introduction to popular ERC standards including ERC-20, ERC-721, ERC-1155 as well as lesser known standards like ERC-223, ERC-777, and ERC-1337. As a smart contract developer, understanding the various ERC token standards is critical as it defines the framework for how a token will behave and interact with the…Ethereum6 min readEthereum6 min read
Published in ITNEXT·Mar 14Member-onlyCluster.dev: All-in-One Tool for Cloud Native InfrastructureBundle Terraform, Helm, ArgoCD, and more in a simple framework to create and manage end-to-end infrastructure with Cluster.dev. NOTE: Cluster.dev is backed by a team from Ukraine with members who have managed to evacuate from Kyiv and are currently safe.( 🇺🇦 #StandWithUkraine) As cloud-native architectures grow in complexity, the number…Kubernetes5 min readKubernetes5 min read
