Let’s start with the happy ending — after a long search, we managed to identify a Netty memory leak in one of our log listeners and were able to troubleshoot and fix the issue on time before the service crashed.

When you are using Rancher to manage your Kubernetes clusters, at some point you will encounter the terms Rancher, RKE, and custom cluster. If you are new to Rancher, it can be difficult to understand the difference between and purpose of each of these concepts. In this post, I will go over what each component is used for and how they are used together in parts of the system.

When we talk about cloud providers, we often forget that not all data is the same — even in the same application, while we might think of this data as from a “financial application” or a “computation process”, the reality is that each data set has subsets upon subsets, and thus require specific applications to manage them.

If your Healthchecks account is growing and is getting a little hard to manage, Healthchecks.io has a new feature for you: Projects. Use Projects to organize your monitoring dashboards, to have finer-grained team and API access controls, and to simplify your check-integration mapping.

After closing a $20 million Series A round, Mattermost is skyrocketing in popularity as a secure, open source Slack alternative for enterprise DevOps and IT. High-trust teams are adopting it for messaging to overcome some of the biggest collaboration challenges today.