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Meet Zipkin: A Tracer for Debugging Microservices
For developers, debugging a complex application is a difficult enough task, but tracking a latency issue that runs across a set of microservices that make up a distributed application is even more...
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Iron.io Brings Serverless Computing to the Cloud Foundry Platform
The promise of serverless computing is that, for developers, it can abstract away vast swaths of infrastructure: Simply write your function and the service takes care of the rest. While this...
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TNS Guide to Serverless Technologies: The Best of FaaS and BaaS
Like the terms “microservices” and “containers” before it, “serverless” is a loaded word. Countless blogs have argued about the meaning or importance. The first, obvious statement everyone makes is...
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Debunking Unikernel Criticisms
The security and tooling worries around unikernels are vastly exaggerated, asserted Idit Levine, creator of the Unik, a unikernel compilation tool, as well as a cloud chief technology officer at Dell...
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How Cloud Foundry Connects with the Google Cloud Platform Using Bosh
Last week, Google launched a service on its cloud platform that makes it very easy to run Cloud Foundry-based workloads. The pairing will allow rapid provisioning and scaling, or cost-savings when...
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OpenStack Summit: IBM Demonstrates Live Migration of Docker Containers
Two IBM software engineers have demonstrated the ability to move a live Docker container from one host to another, without interrupting any service that the container is running. Although Docker will...
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Microsoft Prepped Windows Server 2016 for Ultra-Fast Persistent Storage
With the release of Windows Server 2016, Microsoft has prepared the operating system for the upcoming tectonic changes coming in system architectures, namely around how memory works in servers. A new...
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OpenStack Summit Pancake Podcast: Disks Are Cheap, Your Time Is Expensive
For the recording of our pancake breakfast at the OpenStack Summit Barcelona 2016, we invited CERN’s infrastructure manager, Tim Bell, CERN distributed system architect Ricardo Rocha, as well as Red...
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Microsoft Azure Provides Another Cloud Home for Kubernetes
In a technical preview, Microsoft has started offering the Kubernetes open source container orchestration tool as a component of the Azure Container Service (ACS). “It’s a significant step in making...
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Apprenda-led Team Preps Kubernetes to Manage Windows Containers
Apprenda is leading work to modify the Kubernetes orchestration engine so that it can also manage Windows containers, just like it manages those that run on Linux. The Kubernetes’ Windows Special...
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Right-click Docker: Microsoft’s Ambitious Enterprise Vision for Containers
Microsoft wants to help enterprise containerization adoption with its own secret weapon: The right-click of the mouse. “Adopting container-based development approaches, using things like Docker, is...
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Macaw Launches a Platform Dedicated to Managing Enterprise-Grade Microservices
While there is considerable buzz around the idea of microservices, there are surprisingly few dedicated software packages or services that enterprises can readily adopt to migrate to the new...
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At Long Last, Linux Gets Dynamic Tracing
When the Linux kernel version 4.9 will be released next week, it will come with the last pieces needed to offer to some long-awaited dynamic thread-tracing capabilities. As the keepers of monitoring...
View ArticleCoreOS Offers Self-Hosting Kubernetes with New Tectonic Release
Taking advantage of Kubernetes’ inherent ability to manage containerized applications, CoreOS has updated its commercial Kubernetes distribution, called Tectonic, with the ability to update itself with...
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Docker Spins out Containerd as an Independent Open Source Project
Responding to partner and user concerns over bundling, Docker is releasing one of its core container components, the containerd runtime engine as an independent open source project, and is looking for...
View ArticleTNS Analysts: Is AWS Finally Getting Serious about Open Source?
On this 115th episode of The New Stack Analysts podcast, 451 Research analyst Donnie Berkholz, TNS advisor Kyle MacDonald, TNS managing editor Joab Jackson, and TNS founder Alex Williams, tackled three...
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Wercker Expands CI/CD Platform with Virtual Private Pipelines, Private Cloud...
Gearing up for enterprise workloads, Wercker has outfitted its continuous integration and development platform with the ability for users to run multiple pipelines, or workflows, at once. Security has...
View ArticleProject Falco: Sysdig Reengineered for Security Monitoring
What happens when you cross snort, ossec and strace? You get a tool very much like Project Falco, an open source behavioral activity monitor for detecting anomalous activity within containerized...
View ArticleVerizon Fields Mesosphere’s DCOS to Deploy Nimbler Applications
Telecommunications giant Verizon is testing Mesosphere’s Data Center Operating System as a potential new approach to managing scalable applications. DCOS “is the foundational software for how we...
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Set Up a MongoDB Replica Set in Under an Hour Using a Bitnami Package
Sure, it is easy enough to set up a single copy of an application on your favorite cloud provider. Click a few buttons and away you go. But what if you want to set up a complex, multi-tier...
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