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AWS
- Serverless Compute Need Serverless Storage
- Local NVMe Storage on AWS – Pros and Cons
- Simplyblock for AWS: Environments with many gp2 or gp3 Volumes
- RDS vs. EKS: The True Cost of Database Management
- AWS Migration: How to Migrate into the Cloud? Data Storage Perspective.
- What is the AWS Workload Migration Program and how simplyblock can help you with cloud migration?
- Amazon EKS vs. ECS: Understanding the Differences and Choosing the Right Service
- AWS Storage Optimization: Best Practices for Cost and Performance
- What is AWS Marketplace?
- Say Goodbye to High Data Access-Latency Cloud Storage with Simplyblock’s Local NVMe SSD Caching
- Rockset alternatives: migrate with simplyblock
- What is the AWS Savings Plan? Guide to AWS Discount Programs
- How to reduce AWS cloud costs with AWS marketplace products?
- What are AWS Credits and how to get them?
- How to benefit from AWS Enterprise Discount Program (EDP)
Blog
- NVMe over TCP vs iSCSI: Evolution of Network Storage
- Kubernetes Storage 201: Concepts and Practical Examples
- Encryption At Rest: A Comprehensive Guide to DARE
- Scale Up vs Scale Out: System Scalability Strategies
- NVMe & Kubernetes: Future-Proof Infrastructure
- How to Build Scalable and Reliable PostgreSQL Systems on Kubernetes
- NVMe Storage for Database Optimization: Lessons from Tech Giants
- The Fastest Distributed Database in the World | Adam Szymański
- AWS Storage Optimization: Avoid EBS Over-provisioning
- Why would you run PostgreSQL in Kubernetes, and how?
- Origins of simplyblock and the Evolution of Storage Technologies
- KubeCon + CloudNativeCon NA 2024: Your Salt Lake City Guide
- Network Infrastructure for AI | Marc Austin
- Timeplus: Streaming Analytics for Realtime Data | Jove Zhong
- Integration Tests Done Right: Testcontainers | Oleg Šelajev
- Making LLMs Reliable | Mahmoud Mabrouk
- Side Channel Attacks using CacheWarp | Michael Schwarz
- Building AI Agents with Java and Semantic Kernel | Bruno Borges
- Kubernetes 1.31: Day of the Storage
- Reselling spare GPU and data center capacity | Mihai Mărcuță
- How to Build a Serverless Postgres | Gwen Shapira
- PostgreSQL for Everything | Mike Freedman
- Unifying customer data | Steven Renwick
- Automatically secure your application with your personal Application Firewall | Hannes Ullman
- Image Recognition with Neural Networks: A Beginner’s Guide
- How to connect millions of devices every day through MQTT | Dominik Obermaier
- Neo4j in Cloud and Kubernetes: Advantages, Cypher Queries, and Use Cases
- Getting Started with Graph Databases with Jennifer Reif from Neo4j
- Machine Learning driven Database Optimization with Luigi Nardi from DBtune (interview)
- How I designed PostgreSQL High Availability with Shaun Thomas from Tembo (video + interview)
- Easy Developer Namespaces with Multi-tenant Kubernetes with Alessandro Vozza from Kubespaces
- Kubernetes Persistent Volumes: Best Practices & Guide
- Policy Management at Cloud-Scale with Anders Eknert from Styra (video + interview)
- How to choose your Kubernetes Postgres Operator?
- Simplyblock as alternative to Ceph: A Comprehensive Comparison
- Your CI/CD Pipeline is a Production system with Stefan Prodan from ControlPlane (video + interview)
- Continuous vulnerability scanning in production with Oshrat Nir from ARMO
- How Oracle transforms its operation into a cloud business with Gerald Venzl from Oracle
- PostgreSQL mistakes and how to avoid them with Jimmy Angelakos
- AI Storage: How To Build Scalable Data Infrastructures for AI workloads?
- Coding the Cloud: A Dive into Data Streaming with Gunnar Morling from Decodable (video + interview)
- Improve Security with API Gateways, Nicolas Fränkel
- Block Storage Volume Pooling for the Cloud-Age
- Building a Time Series Database in the Cloud with Steven Sklar from QuestDB (video + interview)
- Kubernetes: Future or Fad?
- Production-grade Kubernetes PostgreSQL, Álvaro Hernández
- What is a Kubernetes Persistent Volume?
- How the CSI (Container Storage Interface) Works
- AWS Cost Optimization with Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting (interview)
- Kubernetes for AI, GKE, and serverless with Abdellfetah Sghiouar from Google (interview)
- What is Kubernetes: The Components and The Beast
- Confidential Computing with Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems (interview)
- The Next-Gen of Storage Virtualization for Modern Cloud Computing
- Distributed SQL Databases with Franck Pachot from Yugabyte (interview)
- Data center and application sustainability with Rich Kenny from Interact (interview)
- Simplyblock for AWS – Performance Test
- Simplyblock for AWS – Whitepaper
- Simplyblock for AWS (demo videos)
Cloud Knowledge
- Best Open Source Tools For Kubernetes
- Ransomware Attack Recovery with Simplyblock
- Disaster Recovery with Simplyblock in AWS
- Avoiding Storage Lock-in: Block Storage Migration with Simplyblock
- Understanding Functional (“Black Box”) Testing: A Developer’s Guide [2024]
- Understanding Clear Box (“White Box”) Testing: A Developer’s Guide [2024]
- What is Software-Defined Storage (SDS)?
- How We Built Our Distributed Data Placement Algorithm
- What is Block Storage?
- Automated Vulnerability Detection throughout your Pipeline with Brian Vermeer from Snyk
- What is NVMe Storage?
- IOPS vs Throughput vs Latency – Storage Performance Metrics
- Kubernetes CSI: Container Attached Storage
- What is Erasure Coding: A Shield Against Data Loss
- AWS EBS Pricing: A Comprehensive Guide
Databases
Kubernetes
Other
- AWS Cost Management: Strategies for Right-Sizing Storage in Dynamic Environments
- Best Open Source Tools For MariaDB
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- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Amazon EC2
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- Best Open Source Tools for Amazon EBS
- Best Open Source Tools for Disaster Recovery
- 9 Best Tools for Threat and Risk Management
- Best Open source Tools for Network Throughput Optimization
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Storage Performance Measurement
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for MinIO
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Apache Cassandra
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Stream Processing
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Redpanda
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Confluent
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Key-Value Storage
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Time-Series Analytics and Predictions
- 9 Best Open Source Tools for Apache Kafka