More than 50 years after their inception, relational databases remain popular as ever to model, manage, and process data. In fact, 7 of the top 10 most popular database management systems are relational databases, including MySQL, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL. The rationale for the popularity is clear: There is a…

Achieving strong isolation without sacrificing resource utilization with Virtual Clusters. Kubernetes is eating the cloud-native world. In the most recent Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) Annual Survey, 96% of organizations reported being either using or evaluating Kubernetes, up from 83% in 2020 and 78% in 2019. It is also estimated…

Exploring popular data integration strategies for TSDBs including ETL, ELT, and CDC — As digital transformation reaches more industries, the number of data points generated is growing exponentially. As such, data integration strategies to collect such large volumes of data from different sources in varying formats and structures are now a primary concern for data engineering teams. …

A 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…

A user-friendly dashboard for developers to leverage existing Kubernetes frameworks to deploy and manage applications. When it comes to deploying applications to Kubernetes, the division of responsibilities between developers and infrastructure teams at various organizations is always an interesting (or contentious) topic. Some teams prefer their developers to fully buy…

Protecting data in-use with secure enclaves or encrypted virtualization technology. Confidential computing is a security measure designed to protect data while in use via software- or hardware-assisted isolation and encryption. …

Kubernetes for Developers: Part VIII Welcome to Part VIII and the final installment of the “Kubernetes for Developer” series! For the last 8 weeks, we’ve been diving deep into Kubernetes. We started with fundamental Docker and Kubernetes and ended last week by taking a look at the state of Kubernetes…

Kubernetes for Developers: Part VII Welcome to Part VII of the “Kubernetes for Developer” series! For those of you who have been following along, we started from reviewing Docker basics and built our way onto crucial Kubernetes concepts such as pods, controllers, networking, and resource management. …

Kubernetes for Developers: Part VI Welcome to Part VI of the “Kubernetes for Developer” series! So far, we’ve covered some fundamental Docker and Kubernetes concepts from pods to resource management. Today we move from the theory to more practical matters, going over some popular Kubernetes tools. Some keen readers might…