Chaos + Resilience Community Day 2019
Our resident chaos monkey ols went to London for the first Chaos and Resilience Community Day held in Europe
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Automated Prize Draws with Kafka
A look at how we improve on our existing manual processes and remove customer pain using technology.
11 minute read
Never give up!
The importance of mental wellbeing and overcoming adversity
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Ruby vs Chef and the Siege of HashiCorp Vault
How I discovered the dark secret behind Chef and used Ruby to harness the power of HashiCorp Vault
14 minute read
Optimising an AWS microservice - Part 2
In this two part post we’ll talk about our learnings from optimising an AWS microservice to reduce latency and hit non-functional targets
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Optimising an AWS microservice - Part 1
In this two part post we’ll talk about our learnings from optimising an AWS microservice to reduce latency and hit non-functional targets
14 minute read
Kafka on NFS
There is a general recommendation against running Apache Kafka on NFS storage, but nobody really gives a good explanation as to why. In this post we look at some broker crashes we have seen happening on Kafka clusters which use NFS storage and why they were happening.
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Load-Bearing Cookies
Removing legacy code that seems completely unused can sometimes have very unpredictable consequences.
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JMX Metrics in Kafka Connect
The use of JMX metrics in Java applications is often poorly documented and is a feature that people are often unaware of. In this post we explore how to use the JMX metrics provided by Kafka Connect.
11 minute read
Using Terraform to put Kotlin in AWS Lambda
Maturing cloud services open up the chance to focus on the most valuable and interesting challenges and not be sidetracked by the technology that enables it.
22 minute read