We covered the what, when and why of Service Mesh in a previous post. Now I’d like to talk about why they are critical in Kubernetes. To understand the importance of using service meshes when working with microservices-based applications, let’s start with a story. Suppose that you are working on a big microservices-based banking application, where any mistake can have serious impacts. One day the development team receives a feature request to add a rating functionality to the application.

As part of our ongoing efforts to offer you the most comprehensive and advanced SDLC protection capabilities, JFrog continues to boost the capabilities of our Xray security and compliance product. In this blog, we offer an overview of recent Xray improvements, all aimed at helping you fortify your software, reduce risk, scale security, streamline compliance and accelerate releases with confidence.

Kubernetes has experienced rapid growth over the years, with a recent post from the Cloud Native Computing Foundation reporting a userbase increase of about 67% in just the past year. Kubernetes is a container orchestration platform that automates how containers are deployed, how they communicate, and how traffic is routed between them; it also scales configurations for both the containerized workloads and the underlying infrastructure that comprises the cluster.

The world is still getting used to operating within the cloud. Moving to the cloud is challenging for many organizations. So why do we see a rise in the adoption of multicloud strategies? In this blog, we will explore why this trend is worth considering for your organization, as well as look at the challenges that it brings.

Load balancing is an indispensable technique for improving a website’s performance. I’ll explain why. With Firefox’s Web Developer Tools open, I visited a popular retailer’s website to see how many HTTP requests my browser made when loading the site. In this case, I counted 119 requests needed to render the landing page.

Would your organization benefit from having powerful, yet easy-to-use filters to inspect your nodes? With our latest Continuous Delivery for Puppet Enterprise release, we’ve updated the filters in the user interface to support more advanced queries. SysAdmins, developers, DataOps, and IT managers will all benefit from having access to these powerful filters.

We've gone through many iterations of ways to build, deploy and distribute applications written in Go at Cloud 66. Unlike Rails, Go applications can be web applications, daemons or CLIs and therefore have different requirements. I'll share some of what we've learned with you in this post.

As the world has shifted towards remote work in the wake of Covid-19, the need for remote management and monitoring tools has increased. Managed service providers (MSPs) use RMMs to provide off-site, automated and streamlined support to their clients for their IT needs. Having an efficient RMM can reduce workload and give MSPs a competitive edge over adversaries. So let’s take a more detailed look at what an RMM software can do and then a look at the best RMM software tools for MSPs in 2022.

Looking to build or improve your DevOps Team? We will explain the roles and responsibilities of a DevOps Team within your organization, and how to start building one. What does a DevOps Team do? A DevOps team is made of professionals from development and operations that work closely together. These cross-functional teams are responsible for orchestrating the entire software development process.