Kafka and Kubernetes (K8s) are a great match. Kafka has knobs to optimize throughput and Kubernetes scales to multiply that throughput. On the consumer side, there are a few ways to improve scalability. Resource & ...
There has been some excellent online discussion lately around Kubernetes controllers, highlighted by an excellent Speakerdeck presentation assembled by Tim Hockin. What I’d like to do in this post is explore some of the implications ...
What are we doing here? We’re going to to run Waypoint to build a Clojure web application, deploy it, and release it on a URL. Along the way, we’re going to see how it interacts ...
If you use Kubernetes, you have probably become adept at crafting commands with kubectl (pronounced “koob-cuddle”). Sure, we prefer to interact with the cluster with declarative configs via a deployment pipeline, but sometimes you need ...
As we’ve been using Kubernetes to build software delivery platforms for our clients, we’ve found Helm to be a reasonable solution to templating and managing deployments to Kubernetes. Although templating alternatives such as Kustomize have ...
When developing infrastructure as code using terraform, it can be difficult to test and validate changes without executing the code against a real environment. The feedback loop between writing a line of code and understanding ...