Each company wants to build the next unicorn. The next Facebook, the next Twitter, the next Quora. But this is rarely what they accomplish. I’ve seen it time and time again.

I've told about why we started to explore serverless in my previous post. And this one will be about what we did and how it went so far. We used to have 9 servers (i.e., AWS EC2 instances) on multiple availability zones, each running a docker engine and all were interconnected with Rancher.

Deployment errors can be expensive mistakes. Successful development teams understand that their deployment tools must help structure and organize updates in a systematic and safe way. Regardless of your team’s preferred programming language, these tools can help. Discover the best tools for deployment.

The news is full of stories about the talent shortage in IT, especially in IT security. This shortage has created pressure on organizations to grow IT operations and to do that securely, all while having too few staff. Many are turning to threat intelligence to give their security analysts the tools they need to evaluate threats quickly and effectively. Essentially offering “Intelligence as a Service,” these tools enable organizations to benefit from the research of others.

Bitbucket Server is the convergence of individual work and team collaboration. Administrators ensure the git server availability, enabling developers to complete deployment cycles. Those teams operate independently but share common goals like, automating and simplifying repetitive tasks.

New features for PushMon 1.19 release.

Dashboards are great, but what if you're not checking them? Wouldn't it be great to know when you have a huge spike in traffic, or if you're about to hit your concurrent connections limit for a single database? Don't worry, Google Stackdriver Alerts have you covered!

We get it! You spent a lot of time working out your architecture, fine-tuning your user interface, and pouring money into launching and marketing your product or site, and you need to get more customers and keep the ones that you’ve got. Website performance is key to both retention and acquisition, so hopefully you took some time to ensure that you delivered a performant site or service.

How I used Swarm to rearchitect a monolith. Some decisions take time to make. Should I learn Golang or Elixir? Should I use Docker Swarm or Kubernetes? You start by learning Docker, then you outgrow it when you want to deploy an app on more than one server. But you must choose between Swarm and k8s…

The CloudApp community is very excited to announce our new integration with Mattermost, helping to create a better communication experience for teams, enterprises and individuals. Mattermost centralizes communication with an easy-to-navigate enterprise messaging workspace that offers security, scalability and open source flexibility. CloudApp helps to enhance that messaging experience with the use of visual media like GIFs, screenshots and recordings.