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News, tutorials, and infrastructure insights from our engineering team
Service Mesh Architecture with Istio and Envoy Proxy
Service meshes like Istio provide transparent service-to-service security, traffic management, and observability through sidecar proxies without application code changes.
OpenStack in 2022: Is Private Cloud Still Relevant?
OpenStack remains relevant for telecommunications, research, and large-scale hosting where compliance, cost control, and infrastructure customization requirements favor private cloud.
AI Infrastructure: GPU Clusters and the Hardware Behind Machine Learning
AI and machine learning workloads demand specialized infrastructure including GPU clusters, advanced cooling, high-speed interconnects, and tiered storage architectures.
GitOps: Managing Infrastructure Through Git Workflows
GitOps uses Git as the single source of truth for infrastructure, enabling version-controlled, auditable, and reproducible deployments through familiar pull request workflows.
GraphQL API Gateways: Managing APIs in Microservice Architectures
GraphQL API gateways federate queries across microservices, requiring specialized approaches to performance management, caching, and query complexity control.
Windows Server 2022: New Security Features and Improvements
Windows Server 2022 brings secured-core capabilities, TLS 1.3 by default, DNS-over-HTTPS, and SMB over QUIC to strengthen server security and modernize networking.
Cloud-Native Application Design Patterns for Scalable Systems
Cloud-native design patterns like circuit breakers, event-driven architecture, and sidecars enable building resilient and scalable distributed systems.
Modern Load Balancing: From HAProxy to Cloud-Native Solutions
Modern load balancing spans from traditional HAProxy deployments to cloud-managed services and Kubernetes ingress controllers, each suited to different architectural needs.
Ransomware Defense: A Multi-Layered Approach to Protecting Your Infrastructure
Defending against ransomware requires a multi-layered strategy combining attack surface reduction, immutable backups, and rapid detection and response capabilities.