Tag: Kubernetes
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Chris Engelbert
Dec 11th, 2024 | 12 min read
Scale Up vs Scale Out: System Scalability Strategies
TLDR: Horizontal scalability (scale out) describes a system that scales by adding more resources through parallel systems, whereas vertical scalability (scale up) increases the amount of resources on
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Chris Engelbert
Nov 27th, 2024 | 7 min read
NVMe & Kubernetes: Future-Proof Infrastructure
The marriage of NVMe storage and Kubernetes persistent volumes represents a perfect union of high-performance storage and modern container orchestration. As organizations increasingly move performance
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Sanskar Gurdasani
Nov 25th, 2024 | 12 min read
How to Build Scalable and Reliable PostgreSQL Systems on Kubernetes
This is a guest post by Sanskar Gurdasani, DevOps Engineer, from CloudRaft. Maintaining highly available and resilient PostgreSQL databases is crucial for business continuity in today’s cloud-n
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Rahil Parekh
Oct 24th, 2024 | 5 min read
Best Open Source Tools For Kubernetes
What are the best open-source tools for your Kubernetes setup? Kubernetes, also known as K8s, is an open source system for automating deployment, scaling, and management of containerized applications.
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Rahil Parekh
Oct 24th, 2024 | 5 min read
Best Open Source Tools for AWS Cloud
What are the best open-source tools for your AWS Cloud setup? The AWS Cloud ecosystem is a dynamic and rapidly evolving environment that supports a vast array of services and applications. As organiza
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Chris Engelbert
Oct 23rd, 2024 | 12 min read
Serverless Compute Need Serverless Storage
The use of serverless infrastructures is steeply increasing. As the Datadog “State of Serverless 2023” survey shows, more than half of all cloud customers have already adopted a serverless environ
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Rahil Parekh
Oct 22nd, 2024 | 5 min read
Developer Platforms at Scale | Elias Schneider
Introduction: In this episode of Cloud Frontier, Rob Pankow interviews Elias Schneider, founder of Codesphere, about his journey and the evolution of developer platforms at scale. With a backgro
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Rob Pankow
Oct 17th, 2024 | 11 min read
NVMe Storage for Database Optimization: Lessons from Tech Giants
Leveraging NVMe-based storage for databases brings whole new set of capabilities and performance optimization opportunities. In this blog we explore how can you adopt NVMe storage for your database wo
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Rahil Parekh
Sep 20th, 2024 | 4 min read
Origins of simplyblock and the Evolution of Storage Technologies
Introduction: In this episode of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, host Chris Engelbert interviews Michael Schmidt, co-founder of simplyblock. Michael shares insights into the evolution of storag
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Chris Engelbert
Sep 17th, 2024 | 5 min read
Best Open Source Tools For Kubernetes
The Kubernetes ecosystem is vibrant and ever-expanding, driven by a community of developers who are committed to enhancing the way we manage and deploy applications. Open-source tools have become an e
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Rob Pankow
Sep 12th, 2024 | 14 min read
The True Cost of Database Management: RDS vs. EKS
Databases can make up a significant portion of the costs for a variety of businesses and enterprises, and in particular for SaaS, Fintech, or E-commerce & Retail verticals. Choosing the right data
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Rob Pankow
Sep 12th, 2024 | 6 min read
What is the AWS Workload Migration Program and how simplyblock can help you with cloud migration?
What is the AWS Workload Migration Program? The AWS Workload Migration Program is a comprehensive framework designed to help organizations migrate their workloads to the AWS cloud efficiently and effe
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Rob Pankow
Aug 27th, 2024 | 6 min read
Avoiding Storage Lock-in: Block Storage Migration with Simplyblock
Storage and particularly block storage is generally easy to migrate. It doesn’t create vendor lock-in, which is very different from most database systems. Therefore, it’s worth to briefly line out
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Chris Engelbert
Aug 22nd, 2024 | 6 min read
Kubernetes 1.31: Day of the Storage
On August 13, the Kubernetes team released Kubernetes 1.31, a release also known as “Elli”. The release follows about a month after the release of 1.30 (Uwubernetes) which also marked the
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Rahil Parekh
Jul 26th, 2024 | 6 min read
Automatically secure your application with your personal Application Firewall | Hannes Ullman
Introduction: This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Frontier Podcast, available on Youtube, Spotify, iTunes/Apple Podcasts, and our show site. In this episode of simplyblock’s Cloud Commut
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Chris Engelbert
Jul 15th, 2024 | 9 min read
Neo4j in Cloud and Kubernetes: Advantages, Cypher Queries, and Use Cases
Introduction: In the era of big data, managing complex relationships is crucial. Neo4j , a leading graph database, excels at handling intricate data connections, making it indispensable for modern app
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Chris Engelbert
Jun 20th, 2024 | 23 min read
How I designed PostgreSQL High Availability with Shaun Thomas from Tembo (video + interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site. In this installment , w
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Chris Engelbert
Jun 14th, 2024 | 18 min read
Easy Developer Namespaces with Multi-tenant Kubernetes with Alessandro Vozza from Kubespaces
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of
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Chris Engelbert
Jun 06th, 2024 | 9 min read
How to choose your Kubernetes Postgres Operator?
A Postgres Operator for Kubernetes eases the management of PostgreSQL clusters inside the Kubernetes (k8s) environment. It watches changes (additions, updates, deletes) of PostgreSQL related CRD (cust
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Chris Engelbert
May 31st, 2024 | 19 min read
Your CI/CD Pipeline is a Production system with Stefan Prodan from ControlPlane (video + interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site. In this installment of
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Chris Engelbert
May 24th, 2024 | 23 min read
Continuous vulnerability scanning in production with Oshrat Nir from ARMO
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site. In this installment of
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Chris Engelbert
May 02nd, 2024 | 15 min read
PostgreSQL mistakes and how to avoid them with Jimmy Angelakos
This interview is part of the simplyblock’s Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment of
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Rob Pankow
Apr 17th, 2024 | 7 min read
Block Storage Volume Pooling for the Cloud-Age
If you have services running in the AWS, you’ll eventually need block storage to store data. Services like Amazon EBS (Elastic Block Storage) provide block storage to be used in your EC2 instances,
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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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Steven Sklar (Guest Author, QuestDB)
Mar 29th, 2024 | 13 min read
How the CSI (Container Storage Interface) Works
If you work with persistent storage in Kubernetes, maybe you’ve seen articles about how to migrate from in-tree to CSI volumes, but aren’t sure what all the fuss is about? Or perhaps you&#
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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’
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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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Chris Engelbert
Feb 28th, 2024 | 8 min read
AWS EBS Pricing: A Comprehensive Guide
In the vast landscape of cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) stands out as a crucial component for storage in AWS’ Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), as well as other AWS
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