I am a CTO with over 5 years of experience in start-up and over 10 years in working at managing position for big companies. I am also a full-stacks developer with over 12 years in system design, product development and technology product deployment. User experience and system security are the things I care about most.
A Beginner-Friendly Introduction to Containers, VMs and Docker
by Preethi Kasireddy A Beginner-Friendly Introduction to Containers, VMs and Docker Source: https://flipboard.com/topic/containerIf you’re a programmer or techie, chances are you’ve at least heard of Docker: a helpful tool for packing, shipping, and running applications within “containers.” It’d be hard not to, with all the attention it’s getting these days
Best Gitter channels on: Go
by Gitter Best Gitter channels on: Go Go, also known as Golang [https://golang.org/], is a open-source programming language developed at Google in 2007 by Robert Griesemer, Rob Pike and Ken Thompson. Originally intended as a descendent of C++ for the 21st century, Golang is characterized by fast compilation, easier syntax,
Experimenting with the Apache Mesos HTTP API for Fun and Profit
by Marco Massenzio Experimenting with the Apache Mesos HTTP API for Fun and Profit Apache Mesos is a tool used in production at large-scale services like Twitter and Airbnb. Here’s its textbook description: > The Mesos kernel runs on every machine and provides applications (e.g., Hadoop, Spark, Kafka, Elasticsearch) with
Docker: Easy as build, run, done!
by Kangze Huang Docker: Easy as build, run, done! Docker has been getting a lot of buzz recently, and for good reason. The containerization service makes deploying microservices easy and stable, as each service can run an OS in its own virtual environment. That means full compatibility… no more worrying
How to claw your way out of AWS Lambda function hell using the power of Docker
by Liz Rice How to claw your way out of AWS Lambda function hell using the power of Docker Photo credit: Inferno [https://flic.kr/p/76rbCN] by Ken [https://www.flickr.com/photos/fractal_ken/]When you’re building Lambda functions, it’s easy to get trapped in an “Invalid ELF header” nightmare. The problem is that your binaries are built for
How to speed up shared file access in Docker for Mac
Docker [https://www.docker.com/] just released a native MacOS runtime environment to run containers on Macs with ease. They fixed many issues, but the bitter truth is they missed something important. The read and write access for mounted volumes is terrible. Benchmarks We can spin up a container and write to a
Load Testing HAProxy (Part 2)
by Sachin Malhotra Load Testing HAProxy (Part 2) This is the second part in the 3 part series on performance testing of the famous TCP load balancer and reverse proxy, HAProxy. If you haven’t gone through the previous post, I would highly suggest you do so to get some sort
Catch bugs systematically: how to build a GitLab CI testing pipeline in 4 steps
by Joyz Catch bugs systematically: how to build a GitLab CI testing pipeline in 4 steps GitLab logo via Wikipedia [https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkas:GitLab_Logo.png] Your first app is a hit the day it’s launched. But one week later, you realize that it has no retention. You discover that this is because whenever a