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Learn snapcraft by example - multi-app client-server snap

Over the past few months, we published a number of articles showing how to snap desktop applications written in different languages – Rust, Java, C/C++, and others. In each one of these zero-to-hero guides, we went through a representative snapcraft.yaml file and highlighted the specific bits and pieces developers need to successfully build a snap. Today, we want to diverge from this journey and focus on the server side of things.

Monitor Apache Flink with Datadog

Apache Flink is an open source framework, written in Java and Scala, for stateful processing of real-time and batch data streams. Flink offers robust libraries and layered APIs for building scalable, event-driven applications for data analytics, data processing, and more. You can run Flink as a standalone cluster or use infrastructure management technologies such as Mesos and Kubernetes.

Introduction to Azure Functions 3.0

Azure Functions has recently released its new version “Azure Functions 3.0” and it is generally available now. This blog is all about the upgraded version and how far it is scaled up from the previous versions. Any business architecture will involve Azure Functions, this need provokes the necessity of upgradation in such resources.

Our roadmap for the new Docker image API and pipeline build step enhancements

In our previous announcement for the removal of the Codefresh Docker registry, we presented a timeline of the migration phases along with the actions expected from our customers. One of the milestones in the migration process is the introduction of our new Image API along with several enhancements on the pipeline build step. We believe that these features deserve a dedicated explanation of why they are useful on their own (regardless of the registry removal).

HAProxyConf 2019 - How OUI.sncf Built Its CDN with HAProxy by Antonin Mellier and Nicolas Besin

Oui.sncf sells tickets and passes for rail travel around Europe. We operate the #1 French e-commerce website with more than 83 million travel products sold and more than 12 million unique visitors per month. We’ve been using HAProxy since 2009. When we decided to build our own CDN solution in 2015, we knew we’d include HAProxy as a main component. In this talk, we will show you how HAProxy is integrated into our CDN infrastructure and how we use it daily to manage, update, configure, and troubleshoot our infrastructure.

HAProxyConf 2019 - Inspect, Control, Report: HAProxy as the SRE's Door Man by Daniel Schneller

CenterDevice offers secure document storage and sharing with OCR, full-text indexing and automatic versioning. Our SREs use HAProxy to gain insights into the usage of our services, diagnose issues, and throttle or reject requests based on HAProxy ACLs. In this talk, you will see how we generate HAProxy configuration files using templates. We will describe our custom log format and demonstrate how we integrate HAProxy data with Kibana.

Lessons Learned Implementing ChatOps

Email overload, distributed teams and excessive meetings have caused many organizations to move their DevOps teams to messaging platforms and thus adopt ChatOps workflows. With thousands of open source installs and hundreds of customer implementations, we have a few lessons to share on interesting DevOps workflows, how incidents can be effectively communicated across distributed teams and what messaging in secure and regulated environments should look like.