When building distributed, scalable cloud-native apps containing dozens or even hundreds of microservices, you need reliable monitoring and alerting. If you’re monitoring cloud-native apps in 2021, there’s a good chance you’ve chosen Prometheus. Prometheus is an excellent choice for monitoring containerized microservices and the infrastructure that runs...
Conjur Kubernetes Authentication: A Hands-On Demonstration The Challenge Secrets – or privileged credentials that act as “keys”– are essential in Kubernetes environments. Kubernetes pods and their component containers need secrets to access protected resources like databases, SSH servers, and HTTPS services. Establishing a strong non-human identity is critical in...
AWS CloudFormation makes cloud provisioning simple and scalable by leveraging both automation and configuration as code. Defining your cloud infrastructure and applications as code simplifies repetitive DevOps tasks and gives you a single source of truth for app and environment configuration. This makes it more important...
Kubernetes is an excellent tool for deploying and scaling complex distributed systems, but it’s no secret that getting started with Kubernetes is a challenge. Most Kubernetes tutorials use a tool like Minikube to get you started, which doesn’t teach you much about configuring production-ready clusters. In this article,...
Do I Need Kubernetes? If you follow technology news, it might seem like Kubernetes is everywhere. It has become hugely popular. In fact, developers and DevOps teams might feel like their application development pipeline is hopelessly outdated if they aren’t using Kubernetes. Kubernetes is an orchestration tool...
The TomTom location APIs and Maps SDKs make it easy to incorporate location and routing information using a sophisticated map, where we can layer more information if we’d like. This information can be incorporated into almost any app. When you combine the flexibility and ease...
In our last article, we've shown how to quickly create and run a mapping-enabled website with ASP.NET Core MVC as a server component and TomTom Maps SDK for Web as our client JavaScript mapping library. The solution featured markers that helped users quickly visualize the...
TomTom Maps SDK is a set of libraries that offer robust and comprehensive location services, including maps, search, routing, traffic, and geofencing. TomTom Maps SDKs are available for different platforms—Android, iOS, and Web. But can we put TomTom Maps SDK for Web to work with a...
MySQL is an open source relational database system that, like Linux, started its history as a personal side project. Over its 25 years of history, MySQL has gained significant traction, and today a broad range of companies, such as Sony and Uber, use it to...
Redis is a lightning-fast, distributed, in-memory key-value database. While Redis usually isn’t used as a primary data store, it’s often used as a fast cache in areas of applications where performance is paramount. As an in-memory key-value database, Redis is much faster than traditional database...