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Storage Pod. The Backblaze Storage Pod is just one part of building a cloud storage service.

In order to boot the machine you will need to have a software layer. Backblaze uses all free software, Debian and Apache, to connect the pods to our network. Starting at the bottom, there are 45 hard drives connected through SATA controllers. Home - Cloud Native Computing Foundation. GitHub - cncf/landscape: Cloud Native Landscape. Beyond the Twelve-Factor App - Exploring the DNA of Highly Scalable, Resilient Cloud Applications [Paper] In 2012, early cloud pioneer Heroku developed the Twelve Factor App, a set of rules and guidelines for helping organizations build cloud-native applications.

This Is My Architecture. Application Architecture Center. AWS Quick Start reference deployments help you rapidly deploy fully functional software on the AWS Cloud, following AWS best practices for security and availability.

The Open Source Telephony Project. National Broadband Plan Workshops and Field Events. White paper c11 736842. SbaGov IEdGuide. Design Zone - Branch, WAN, and Internet Edge. CVD CampusFabricDesign 2016OCT. Design Zone. Scaling DreamFactory for High-Volume Deployments. Here at DreamFactory, we frequently get inquires about the scalabilty and security of the DreamFactory platform.

We're not surprised. There are many thousands of users running DreamFactory as a REST API backend for important real-world web, mobile, and IoT applications. To help answer the security question, I blogged about DreamFactory security a couple weeks ago. Today, I want to address questions regarding DreamFactory scalability. The top 5 container adoption and management challenges for IT Ops. Containers aren’t new, but they are making a bigger impact in IT than ever before.

Among IT pros with knowledge of their company’s financial investments, close to 70% say their company is making an investment in containers, according to a 2017 survey conducted by Portworx, a data storage company for containers. Nearly one-third of companies are spending $500,000 or more a year on license and usage fees for container technologies, up from a reported 5% last year. That trend has also presented several new challenges for IT operations. Developers, of course, have eagerly embraced containers over virtual machines, drawn by Docker's introduction of an image format that makes it easy to build and distribute application code and dependencies. Getting Started - AWS Step Functions.

This tutorial introduces you to the basics of working with AWS Step Functions.

In this tutorial you'll create a simple, independently-running state machine using a Pass state. The Pass state is the simplest state which represents a no-op (an instruction with no operation). Step 1: Creating the State Machine Step Functions offers various predefined state machines in the form of blueprints. Principles of Chaos Engineering. Microservices Reference Architecture from NGINX – Intro. Author’s note – This blog post is the first in a series: All six blogs, plus a blog about web frontends for microservices applications, have been collected into a free ebook.

Also check out these other NGINX resources about microservices: Introduction. Cognitive concepts 101 - IBM Cloud Architecture Center. Architecture Archives - IBM Cloud Architecture Center. VMware SDDC on IBM Cloud - Advanced Detailed Design - IBM Cloud Architecture Center. Cognitive concepts 101 - IBM Cloud Architecture Center. Workshops - Continuous Delivery. You can hire me to come to your company and give one of the three workshops below, or to give one or more of my talks.

My day rate is US$22,000 within the USA, or US$30,000 for other countries, including all expenses. Microservices in Practice: From Architecture to Deployment - DZone Cloud. Nowadays, "Microservices" is one of the most popular buzz-words in the field of software architecture.

There are quite a lot of learning materials on the fundamentals and benefits of microservices, but there are very few resources on how you can use microservices in the real world enterprise scenarios. In this post, I'm planning to cover the key architectural concepts of the Microservices Architecture (MSA) and how you can use those architectural principles in practice. Monolithic Architecture Enterprise software applications are designed to facilitate numerous business requirements. Hence, a given software application offers hundreds to functionalities and all such functionalities are piled into a single monolithic application. Browser unsupported. Ustwo – Human Made. Ustwo is a digital product agency, working with clients to create beautiful websites, building digital products, and launching new ventures.

Amongst their impressive portfolio of work is the Apple Game of the Year and BAFTA award-winning Monument Valley. Human Made was brought in to help build their new website: ustwo wanted a decoupled website with a WordPress back end and a JavaScript front end. The agency has world-class expertise in-house to deal with the front end design and development, and they engaged Human Made to work on the CMS. This presented an exciting opportunity for Human Made as it gave us the opportunity to use the new WordPress REST API alongside a great design company.

Creating a bespoke API ustwo wanted a straightforward interface for their global marketing team to add content to their website. Unleash the Swarm: The Future of Warfare - War on the Rocks. Editor’s note: This is the third article in a six-part series, The Coming Swarm, on military robotics and automation as a part of the joint War on the Rocks-Center for a New American Security Beyond Offset Initiative. Read the first and second entries in this series. Could swarms of low-cost expendable systems change how militaries fight? Last November, Under Secretary of Defense Frank Kendall asked the Defense Science Board to examine a radical idea: “the use of large numbers of simple, low­ cost (i.e. Patent US9268836 - Intelligent data propagation in a highly distributed environment - Google Patents. The various embodiments described herein relate generally to copying data in a highly distributed environment, and more particularly, to propagating copies of data to multiple host devices in a highly distributed environment.

A virtual machine clone is a copy of an existing virtual machine (VM). VMs can be cloned across highly distributed architectures. These highly distributed environments include numerous host devices (e.g., ranging from hundreds to thousands of hosts) and corresponding datastores spread across geographically distinct locations. The speed at which VMs are cloned across a large, highly distributed environment, however, remains sub-optimal. Using Blue-Green Deployment to Reduce Downtime and Risk.

BlueGreenDeployment. Delivery tags: One of the goals that my colleagues and I urge on our clients is that of a completely automated deployment process. Automating your deployment helps reduce the frictions and delays that crop up in between getting the software "done" and getting it to realize its value. Dave Farley and Jez Humble are finishing up a book on this topic - Continuous Delivery. It builds upon many of the ideas that are commonly associated with Continuous Integration, driving more towards this ability to rapidly put software into production and get it doing something.

One of the challenges with automating deployment is the cut-over itself, taking software from the final stage of testing to live production. The DOs and DON'Ts of Blue/Green Deployment - CloudNative. The term "blue/green deployment" is so misunderstood, we can't even decide on what to call it. Netflix call it Red/Black Deployment, while others call it A/B Deployment. Personally, I don't even know which color represents which thing, but this is only the beginning of the confusion. Import an API into Azure API Management. In API Management, new APIs can be created and the operations added manually, or the API can be imported along with the operations in one step.

APIs and their operations can be imported using the following formats. WADLSwagger This guide shows how create a new API and import its operations in one step. Azure Resource Manager Overview. The infrastructure for your application is typically made up of many components – maybe a virtual machine, storage account, and virtual network, or a web app, database, database server, and 3rd party services. Resource Management — Azure SDK for Python 2.0.0 RC6 documentation. The following code creates an instance of the management client. Azure Resource Manager.

Serverless Architecture – Linux Academy Blog. Explore the Connect series from IBM. Developers who want to capitalize on their existing skills and applications can explore ways to connect to and from the cloud with the Connect series from IBM. Refactoring to microservices, Part 3: Roadmap to microservices adoption. Fabric8 - an open source developer platform.

All Things Distributed. SaltStack. Azure Infographics - Cloud Design Patterns. Cloud Design Patterns: Prescriptive Architecture Guidance for Cloud Applications. January 2014 Containing twenty-four design patterns and ten related guidance topics, this guide articulates the benefit of applying patterns by showing how each piece can fit into the big picture of cloud application architectures. ØMQ - The Guide - ØMQ - The Guide. Object storage. Object storage (also known as object-based storage[1]) is a storage architecture that manages data as objects, as opposed to other storage architectures like file systems which manage data as a file hierarchy and block storage which manages data as blocks within sectors and tracks.[2] Each object typically includes the data itself, a variable amount of metadata, and a globally unique identifier.

Object storage can be implemented at multiple levels, including the device level (object storage device), the system level, and the interface level. In each case, object storage seeks to enable capabilities not addressed by other storage architectures, like interfaces that can be directly programmable by the application, a namespace that can span multiple instances of physical hardware, and data management functions like data replication and data distribution at object-level granularity.

History[edit] Origins[edit] Optimizing the Netflix API. By Ben Christensen About a year ago the Netflix API team began redesigning the API to improve performance and enable UI engineering teams within Netflix to optimize client applications for specific devices. API gateway pattern. Context Let's imagine you are building an online store that uses the Microservices pattern and that you are implementing the product details page. You need to develop multiple versions of the product details user interface:

Building Microservices: Using an API Gateway - NGINX. Microservices.