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Build Your Own PaaS with Crossplane: Kubernetes, OAM, and Core Workflows

InfoQ recently sat down with Bassam Tabbara, founder and CEO of Upbound, and discussed building application platforms that span multiple cloud vendors and on-premise infrastructure. Crossplane is an open source cloud control plane that enables engineers to manage any infrastructure or cloud services directly from Kubernetes.

Daniel Bryant
on Aug 14, 2020
DevOps

Q&A with Galo Navarro on Building an Effective Platform Team

Galo Navarro discusses how to build an effective platform team and scale it to support a large organization. InfoQ recently sat down with Navarro to discuss his approach for building a strong platform team including setting a clear mandate and balancing autonomy of product teams with clear standards.

Galo Navarro Matt Campbell
on May 16, 2020
DevOps

What’s Next in DevOps?

The DevOps movement continues to grow and gain influence in the IT world and the business world at large. As the organisations become increasingly digital, the agility of our IT systems becomes critical to the life and health of the companies.

Andrew Davis
on Mar 27, 2020
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Postgres Handles More Than You Think

Thinking about scaling beyond Postgres with a data store like Redis or Elasticsearch? Think again before adopting a complex infrastructure. Postgres can scale for heavy loads and offers powerful features which are not obvious at first sight. For example, it's possible to enable in-memory caching, text search, specialized indexing, and key-value storage. Article

Jason Skowronski
on Sep 27, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Azure Data Lake Analytics and U-SQL

In this article, the author shows how to use big data query and processing language U-SQL on Azure Data Lake Analytics platform. U-SQL combines the concepts and constructs both of SQL and C#. It combines the simplicity and declarative nature of SQL with the programmatic power of C# including rich types and expressions.

Aniruddha Chakrabarti
on Sep 13, 2019
Cloud

Kubernetes Workloads in the Serverless Era: Architecture, Platforms, and Trends

Explore how microservices architecture has evolved into cloud-native architecture, where many of the infrastructure concerns are provided by Kubernetes in combination with additional abstractions provided by service mesh and serverless frameworks. In addition, the serverless ecosystem is evolving by exploring standard and open packaging, runtimes, and event formats.

Bilgin Ibryam
on Aug 12, 2019
AI, ML & Data Engineering

Using Intel Analytics Zoo to Inject AI into Customer Service Platform (Part II)

This article shares the practical experience of building a QA ranker module on Azure’s customer support platform using Intel Analytics Zoo by Microsoft Azure China team. You can quickly learn step by step how to prepare data to train, evaluate and tune a text matching model at scale and finally productionize it as a service using Analytics Zoo.

Chen Xu Yuqing Wei Shengsheng Huang Kai Huang
on May 23, 2019
DevOps

DevOps and Cloud InfoQ Trends Report - February 2019

An overview of how the “cloud computing” and DevOps space is evolving in 2019 including updates on Kubernetes, Chaos Engineering, Service meshes and more.

Helen Beal Chris Swan Manuel Pais Daniel Bryant Steffen Opel
on Feb 21, 2019
Architecture & Design

Service Catalog and Kubernetes

Cloud-native applications do not just live inside Kubernetes—they also benefit from using the available cloud managed services. Similar to Kubernetes' declarative object configuration model, the Open Service Broker API with the Service Catalog provides a declarative way to describe cross-platform/cross-cloud managed service dependencies.

Ara Pulido
on Feb 04, 2019
Cloud

Exploring Azure Service Fabric Mesh: A Platform for Building Mission Critical Microservices

Azure has released a preview of Service Fabric Mesh, a platform targeted at microservice developers who do not want the operational responsibility of running an underlying orchestration platform. InfoQ recently sat down with Chacko Daniel, principal technical PM at Microsoft, to explore the details.

Chacko Daniel
on Dec 01, 2018
Java

Build a MySQL Spring Boot App Running on WildFly on an Azure VM

How to build a demo site that runs on the WildFly application platform and connects to a MySQL database in the cloud, on Microsoft Azure. The premise seems simple, but the implementation can be tricky, and there is limited documentation on how to set something like this up.

Brian Benz
on Aug 25, 2018
.NET

Securing web.config with Encryption Certificates on Windows and Azure

A major area where security is often lax is the web.config file. Usually stored in plain text, an intruder who gains access to this file can then easily access databases and other resources both internal and external. With this technique, secrets in your web.config can be encrypted using the Windows certificate store

Jonathan Allen
on Jul 21, 2018