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...

Since first publishing the Monitoring Performance in Microservice Architectures article in a post, I have received many questions, which I am going to address here. I am also going to use this opportu...

Testing microservices versus testing monoliths There are numerous advantages of using microservices over the monolithic application structure.

In the announcement video, Adam Jacobs, the CTO and co-founder of Chef, claims that for companies who want to move towards a devops organization, everything depends on how people in an organization wo...

Simple GCE setup with Terraform Here you will find a Terraform configuration file that will create a single virtual machine in the Google Cloud Engine (GCE) platform using Terraform.

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...

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...

Recently we ran into a bit of trouble with our pet CI server. It was being used as a Jenkins server and a Postgres database and Sonar was also running on it but it wasn't evident as it was just a manu...