Chaos + Resilience Community Day 2019

Our resident chaos monkey ols went to London for the first Chaos and Resilience Community Day held in Europe

Category:

Conferences

Time:

16 minute read

Automated Prize Draws with Kafka

A look at how we improve on our existing manual processes and remove customer pain using technology.

Author:

Dave Chaston

Time:

11 minute read

Never give up!

The importance of mental wellbeing and overcoming adversity

Author:

Rami Alnawas

Category:

Community

Time:

2 minute read

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

Author:

Andrei Sandu

Category:

Devops

Time:

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

Author:

Jamie Munro

Category:

Cloud Computing

Time:

13 minute read

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

Author:

Jamie Munro

Category:

Cloud Computing

Time:

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.

Author:

Alice Kaerast

Category:

Operations

Time:

5 minute read

Load-Bearing Cookies

Removing legacy code that seems completely unused can sometimes have very unpredictable consequences.

Author:

Chris Buckley

Time:

9 minute read

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.

Author:

Alice Kaerast

Category:

Operations

Time:

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.

Author:

Alex Stanhope

Category:

Cloud Computing

Time:

22 minute read