Every city is unique. It has its own culture, story of origin, and way of life. The opportunities that a city provides to its residents attracts people to build a life there. According to UN estimate, 68% of the world population would be living in its cities by 2050, as compared to just 55% in 2018. In […]
With an ever-increasing demand for DevOps and releasing software quickly, the strategies that support this approach are also in high demand. Technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes have revolutionized the way software is built and shipped. Enterprises today have innovative ways to streamline their business and reduce noise and disturbance that affect their growth. Major clouds provide […]
The cybersecurity landscape is evolving. Thanks to new advances in technology, the future is looking bright for the industry. Artificial intelligence, machine learning, IoT, blockchain, 5G – these advancements will be part of what lies ahead. However, all this sophisticated new tech has a dark side: both sides can use it. Now, the struggle between cybersecurity and cybercrime […]
Staying Secure with CIS in Oracle Cloud Oracle Cloud Infrastructure partners with the Center for Internet Security (CIS) to build security into Oracle Cloud with CIS Hardened Images. CIS Hardened Images — now available on the Oracle Cloud Marketplace — provide hardened virtual machine (VM) images. CIS Hardened Images are pre-hardened in accordance with the CIS […]
GitOps is a relatively new approach to managing production environments with the help of automation, containerization, and orchestration technologies. The idea behind GitOps is to have all the necessary infrastructure components up and running before pushing code to production. With such an automated deployment technique, every change is deployed in a predictable manner. However, not […]
Marking a significant shift in its business model, IBM announced last week that it is splitting itself into two public companies. Its IT infrastructure support unit would be listing itself as a separate company by the end of 2021. The core business of IBM would now be high margin cloud computing, with focus on open hybrid clouds […]
Editor – This seven‑part series of articles is now complete: You can also download the complete set of articles, plus information about implementing microservices using NGINX Plus, as an ebook – Microservices: From Design to Deployment. Also, please look at the new Microservices Solutions page. This is the third article in our series about building applications with a microservices architecture. The first […]
In this blog post, we are going to set up two Galera-based Clusters running on Percona XtraDB Cluster 5.7, one for the production and one for the disaster recovery (DR). We will use ClusterControl to deploy both clusters in AWS and Azure, where the latter will become the disaster recovery site. ClusterControl is located in our local data center and it […]
Editor – This seven‑part series of articles is now complete: Introduction to Microservices Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway Building Microservices: Inter‑Process Communication in a Microservices Architecture Service Discovery in a Microservices Architecture Event‑Driven Data Management for Microservices Choosing a Microservices Deployment Strategy (this article) Refactoring a Monolith into Microservices (this article) You can also download […]
For the most business value, develop a testing program based on personas, best practices, and agile principles Continuous testing is both a practice and a mindset. Developers and quality assurance specialists initiate the practice of continuous testing in the devops CI/CD (continuous integration/continuous development) pipeline, triggering a list of automated tests that run with every build […]