Author: Chris Engelbert
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 19th, 2024 | 19 min read
Improve Security with API Gateways, Nicolas Fränkel
In this installment of the podcast, we talked to Nicolas Fränkel (X/Twitter) from API7.ai, the creator of Apache APISIX, a high-performance open-source API gateway, discusses the significance of choo
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 12th, 2024 | 17 min read
Building a Time Series Database in the Cloud with Steven Sklar from QuestDB (video + interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of the pod
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 10th, 2024 | 9 min read
Kubernetes: Future or Fad?
Kubernetes has pretty much become synonymous with container orchestration, and all competition is either assimilated (or rewritten to be based on Kubernetes, see Openshift), or basically disappeared i
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 05th, 2024 | 25 min read
Production-grade Kubernetes PostgreSQL, Álvaro Hernández
In this episode of the Cloud Commute podcast, Chris Engelbert is joined by Álvaro Hernández Tortosa, a prominent figure in the PostgreSQL community and CEO of OnGres. Álvaro shares his deep insight
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Chris Engelbert
Apr 03rd, 2024 | 7 min read
What is a Kubernetes Persistent Volume?
A persistent volume is a slice of storage provisioned by a Kubernetes administrator that can be attached and mounted to pods. Like everything in Kubernetes, it is a resource inside the cluster, and it
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 28th, 2024 | 3 min read
AWS Cost Optimization with Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube, Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment, we’r
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 27th, 2024 | 7 min read
Kubernetes CSI: Container Attached Storage
Containerized services must be stateless, a doctrine that was widely used in the early days of containerization, which came hand-in-hand with microservices. While it makes elasticity easy, these days,
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 22nd, 2024 | 25 min read
Kubernetes for AI, GKE, and serverless with Abdellfetah Sghiouar from Google (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube, Spotify, iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Pandora, Samsung Podcasts, and our show site. In this installment, we’re ta
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 20th, 2024 | 4 min read
What is Kubernetes: The Components and The Beast
During the last decade containerized services have emerged as the game-changer in terms of deployment simplicity, scalability, and componentization or modularization. Kubernetes is at the forefront of
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 15th, 2024 | 20 min read
Confidential Computing with Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment , we’
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