How can continuous integration scale for very large projects/teams?
Traditionally CI systems only monitor the quality of the code in an integration branch, signalling when regressions occur. Human intervention is required for repairs.As the number of developers working...
View ArticleDocker memory storage
Docker daemon allows, according to documentatio, using memory storage driver for its images.Has anybody any daily business experiences with that?
View ArticleBest method of retrieving environment information via Salt Stack?
I have been tasked with using Salt Stack to find out what files/services exist in each of our environments (Test, UAT, Production).The Salt master can speak to all servers in Test and UAT (Production...
View ArticleScaling issues with Nagios as CaSC
If Nagios server would use a CasC source of configuration in a larger organization is there a design flaw in this approach which will limit scaling up?To avoid broken configuration, test instances of...
View ArticleHow can Agile methodologies, CI/CD be applied to massive, monolithic software...
Using continuous integration represents an (almost) mandatory requirement for a software project to be agile. And without CI there can be no continuous delivery/deployment.But CI can face scalability...
View ArticleThanos or Cortex - What handles very large scale (say, hundreds of millions...
We're looking at a new metrics solution and are attempting to build it in house. So, my question is: What can scale more effectively / with less pain; Thanos or Cortex?I understand the general...
View ArticleRunning multiple websites on Docker in isolated or shared database containers?
So I have been reading up on Docker, and I cannot quite get my head around this concept. There are literally dozens of tutorials on the web about spawning a Wordpress instance on Docker within 5...
View ArticleWhat is the best way to deploy a short living process when you have no machine?
I'm new to devops .I created a converter and want to deploy it . The converter converts a 3D model from a format to another and then you'll be able to visualize the outpout file on the platform and...
View ArticlePattern(s) to scale node.js based ETL
I have a node.js ETL application that transforms data from 1..n locations and from each location there will be 0..m transactions.The application is started via cron on a configurable interval,...
View Articleif the bottle neck is the number of connections, is it better to scale redis...
Backgroundlast week we had a major outage, we identified the bottle neck to be redis number of connections:Our quick fix was to scale redis from cache.m4.4xlarge to chache.m4.10xlarge (vertical...
View ArticleWhat is it called to deploy major changes for limited number of customers first?
Is there a common name for this deployment strategy which is to avoid deploying major updates across all the customers straight away but rather limit the initial number to see their feedback, find any...
View ArticleScaling a stateful service which has primary/secondary architecture by...
I have a java web stateful service which connects to mongodb and currently it is being deployed as a jar directly on the VM. This service has a property in properties file i.e. primary.If we set...
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