Blog posts tagged
"Managed Apps"

6 posts

agmatei
30 June 2024

Managed Apps on Public Cloud: Why Operations Matter, Part II

Article Apps

In the first part of this blog journey (I’d call it a post, but it’s actually two posts) we explored what operational excellence looks like in public cloud deployments. And while I do not want to spoil it for you, the main takeaway was that it is not easy and can become resource-intensive. With this

agmatei
30 June 2024

agmatei
27 June 2024

Managed Apps on Public Cloud: Why Operations Matter, Part I 

Article Apps

You might be tempted to think that running an app on a public cloud means you don’t need to maintain it. While that would be wonderful, it would require help from the public cloud providers and

agmatei
27 June 2024

Kris Sharma
4 February 2021

What is Elasticsearch and how are enterprises using it?

Article Apps

What does Netflix, eBay and Walmart have in common? They all use Elasticsearch. What is Elasticsearch? Elasticsearch is a real-time open-source distributed search and analytics engine built on top of Apache Lucene™, a fulltext search-engine library and developed in Java. Elasticsearch started as a scalable version of...

Kris Sharma
4 February 2021

Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

PostgreSQL: The PgMiner botnet attacks & Postgres database security

Article Ubuntu

Assuring the security of PostgreSQL and all open source database systems is critical as many learned with the PgMiner botnet attacks in December 2020. Having an understanding of, and visibility into, how these attacks happen and following standard best practices is the best way to make sure that your data is not at risk. This

Kris Sharma
12 January 2021

Kris Sharma
7 October 2020

Cloud-native adoption in financial services

Article Financial Services

The business agility imperative With the economies of many countries heading towards recession, increasing regulations, growing security threats and increasing costs, financial services firms need practical solutions, now more than ever. Many of the financial technology firms (‘fintechs’) and mobile app-based challenger...

Kris Sharma
7 October 2020

robgibbon
29 June 2020

What is Apache Kafka?

Article Cloud and server

Discover Charmed Kafka Everyone hates waiting in a queue. On the other hand, when you’re routing an absolute storm of event data around a cloud environment, message queues are your best friend. Enter Apache Kafka. Apache Kafka is a free, open source event streaming platform that enables you to create queues for...

robgibbon
29 June 2020