Philip Winder

    Tensorflow on Kubernetes: Kubeflow

    Google is quietly releasing increasing amounts of projects dedicated to data science. One such project that was recently pointed out to me is called Kubeflow. In its essence, it is not terribly compli...

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    Accidental Rewrite of a Microservice

    This is a guest post by Robert Hensing. In this blog post, I describe my experience adapting a microservice for use with AWS' DynamoDB. Background The Sock Shop is Weave Works' reference microservice ...

    Surprise at Golang Thread Scheduling

    A few days ago I had a problem with high CPU usage in one of my Go-based microservices. The microservice has evolved into two distinct components: a HTTP web-app and a batch processing service. At som...

    Monitoring Microservices with Prometheus

    We seem to say this a lot at Container Solutions, but the combination of microservice architectures and the practice of DevOps have smashed apart the assumptions made by traditional tools. None more s...

    The Release and New Features of Mesos 1.0.0

    Please join me in welcoming the first major release of Apache Mesos. However, as many of you will know, Mesos has been in use for at least five years. So this is less of a major release, since every r...

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    Minimesos on AWS

    Whilst creating our reference microservices application for Weave, I wanted to use minimesos as a controlled Mesos environment for demos and testing. The key benefit for this use case was the static d...

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    Mesos framework overview: Mesos-starter, MesosFramework, Kibana and minimesos

    In the last few days my colleagues and I at Container Solutions have made major releases for several projects. We’ve been busy developing a range of products that are evolving into a suite of applicat...

    Mesos Usability - A Developer's Perspective

    We use Mesos a lot. Developing with Mesos is a full time job for a large proportion of Container Solutions. From the perspective of a production user, the abstraction of physical hardware into resourc...

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    Reasons to use Apache Mesos Frameworks

    The media is full of discussions of microservices and cloud-based infrastructure and for good reason. Encapsulating tasks into higher and higher abstractions is being shown by various large companies ...