Cloudflare is a global cloud services provider that is based all over the globe, from San Francisco, US to London, England to Sydney, Australia. Their mission, as stated front and center on their homepage, is to help build a better Internet. While that may read like hyperbole, their numbers are impressive - Cloudflare has over 126,000 paying customers and 95% of Internet Users in the developed world are within 50ms of their network.

In July and August of this year, I revealed to our community for the first time that Bitbucket Cloud was engaged in a project to migrate to a new platform. As I wrote in July: I am thrilled to announce that, in late August, we officially completed this project and Bitbucket Cloud has been operating in AWS, data center-free for over 2 months. So how does this benefit our customers? This is one of the most technically complex projects we've ever tackled as a team.

Slowly but surely, HTTP/2 is becoming the favored protocol for transporting data files between clients and servers. While HTTP/1 used to be the only way of loading web applications, it’s now lagging behind, especially on the UX front. Since 2015, HTTP/2 APIs have taken the lead with lightning-fast server responses. In particular, they’re responsible for state changes and server responses without the need for browser reloads.

MobX is a scalable library developed to ease the process of state management in frontend applications. In this tutorial, you will learn how to manage the state of your Flutter applications using MobX, and then set up a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipeline for your application using CircleCI. You can find the sample project developed for this tutorial in this GitHub repository.

Helm has some limits, discover how we extended functionnalities with Rust.

In our previous post , we focused on tips for making the transition and migration to Kubernetes a smoother, and less painful process. In this post, we’d like to now provide some tips from the operational trenches for future-proofing your Kubernetes operation, after making the move. Kubernetes, as a software-driven system, has many benefits for engineers and DevOps teams to take advantage of.

Kubernetes has evolved into the leading platform to build your microservices systems. Given its increased maturity over the past few years as well as the robust ecosystem which has been built around its technology, Kubernetes has become more production-ready than ever. Nevertheless, it still has its own unique set of challenges. In particular, it brings a lot of complexity into play with its adoption.

Today we are announcing the next step in the evolution of VMware Tanzu Application Catalog. Since its initial availability in March 2020, Tanzu Application Catalog has seen notable success due to its unique DevSecOps approach, which caters to the needs of developers, security admins, and IT operators. Tanzu Application Catalog offers a library of prepackaged, validated, production-ready open source container images that can be customized using base OS images of any customer’s choosing.

KubeCon/CloudNativeCon North America 2021 was a whirlwind of sessions, talks, panels, bonding, and learning. As it was a hybrid event, Civo was represented both in person at a booth that featured Sophia and David from our North American team, as well as virtually through our online booth and talks. Plus, we made an announcement of the General Availability of Civo Kubernetes at the event!