Performance tests, end-to-end tests, integration tests. There are many different types of tests you can run on your infrastructure. One of the most overlooked kinds is load testing. Failure to include load tests in your supply chain can be detrimental, as you will be missing out on a number of benefits. Some of the big advantages of load testing Kubernetes are.

The importance of artificial intelligence in driving business success has never been clearer. Yet, for too long advanced AI capabilities have been the preserve of tech giants and well-funded enterprises. This concentration of resources has created inequality that threatens to leave many businesses behind. But the importance of democratizing AI access extends far beyond individual company success - it's about fostering a vibrant, competitive ecosystem where innovations can emerge from unexpected places.

With the promise of auto-provisioning and self-healing, Kubernetes environments can be an attractive option for hosting your application platform. However, with increasing budget restrictions, the competitive cloud providers and offerings, and the need to do more with less, engineers are looking to get a handle on their resource utilization.

Etcd plays a critical role in your Kubernetes setup: it stores the ever-changing state of your cluster and its objects, and the API server uses this data to manage cluster resources. As your applications thrive and your Kubernetes clusters see more traffic, etcd handles an increasing amount of data. But etcd’s storage space is limited: the recommended maximum is 8 GiB, and a large and dynamic cluster can easily generate enough data to reach that limit.

For scaling businesses, transitioning from PaaS (Platform as a Service) to IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) is less about a choice and more about necessity. Staying on PaaS too long can result in skyrocketing costs, limited flexibility, and performance bottlenecks — challenges that only grow as your workloads and team scale.

At Qovery, we are closely following the development of EKS Auto Mode, a new feature from AWS designed to simplify Kubernetes management by automating various foundational components. While we recognize the effort AWS has put into this, our initial evaluation shows that EKS Auto Mode is still in its early stages and does not yet offer sufficient value to be a strong consideration for our users.

Recently I've had the great privilege of working on creating a distributed WordPress deployment that leverages GCP compute and services alongside containers running on the Cycle platform. This blog dives into a bit of the history of why WordPress is difficult to deploy in a distributed way, how we approached it, some really interesting things we found, and finally, the solution we put in place.