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Engineering Principles for Building a Successful Cloud-Prem Solution

Discover how Cloud-Prem solutions combine cloud efficiency with on-premise control, meeting data sovereignty and compliance demands while optimizing operational costs and enhancing customer security.

Satyam Dhar
on Jun 26, 2025
Architecture & Design

Using Traffic Mirroring to Debug and Test Microservices in Production-Like Environments

Traffic mirroring has evolved from a network security tool to a robust method for debugging and testing microservices using real-world data. By safely duplicating production traffic to a shadow environment, teams can replicate elusive bugs, profile performance under actual load, validate new features, and detect regressions, ensuring that production remains isolated and user experiences intact.

Apoorv Mittal
on Jun 09, 2025
DevOps

Checklist for Kubernetes in Production: Best Practices for SREs

This article provides SREs with a checklist for managing Kubernetes in production environments. It identifies common challenges including resource management, workload placement, high availability, health probes, storage, monitoring, and cost optimization. By implementing consistent GitOps automation across these areas, teams can significantly reduce complexity, and prevent downtime.

Utku Darilmaz
on Mar 10, 2025
DevOps

Using GreenOps to Improve Your Operational Efficiency and Save the Planet

Our infrastructures have environmental and economic costs; the IT sector is responsible for 1.4% of carbon emissions worldwide. GreenOps can be used to help mitigate this impact.

Davide Bianchi Graziano Casto
on Jun 26, 2024
DevOps

Elevating Kubernetes Logging for Enhanced Observability

In this article, we will explore the challenges, strategies, and best practices that will help you achieve seamless log management in your Kubernetes environment.

Prithvish Kovelamudi
on Jun 13, 2024
Java

Optimizing Spring Boot Config Management with ConfigMaps: Environment Variables or Volume Mounts

Spring Boot stands out as a viable framework for its agility and streamlined workflow. Yet, effective configuration management remains a pivotal factor influencing deployment efficiency and ongoing maintenance. ConfigMaps, a feature in Kubernetes, provides configuration strategies for Spring Boot applications.

Naveen Pujaris
on Jun 06, 2024
DevOps

Optimizing Resource Utilization: the Benefits and Challenges of Bin Packing in Kubernetes

Optimizing Kubernetes usage is an important part of a responsible cloud strategy. Bin packing is an effective strategy for maximizing the usage of each node.

Omer Hamerman
on Nov 08, 2023
DevOps

Debugging Production: eBPF Chaos

This article shares insights into learning eBPF as a new cloud-native technology which aims to improve Observability and Security workflows. You’ll learn how chaos engineering can help, and get an insight into eBPF based observability and security use cases. Breaking them in a professional way also inspires new ideas for chaos engineering itself.

Michael Friedrich
on Jun 20, 2023
Architecture & Design

Banking on Thousands of Microservices

Lessons learned building a banking platform, starting from technological choices like using Cassandra and Kubernetes in the early days to maintain the speed of execution through platform engineering and developer experience. With some mistakes and incidents along the way.

Suhail Patel
on May 08, 2023
DevOps

The Silent Platform Revolution: How eBPF Is Fundamentally Transforming Cloud-Native Platforms

There is a silent eBPF revolution reshaping platforms and the cloud-native world in its image, and this is its story.

Bill Mulligan Daniel Borkmann
on Apr 06, 2023
Cloud

The Great Lambda Migration to Kubernetes Jobs—a Journey in Three Parts

In this article, I’d like to share our journey at Firefly on a great migration from serverless to Kubernetes jobs, lessons learned, and the technologies that helped us do so with minimal pain.

Liav Yona
on Mar 15, 2023
Cloud

Writing Cloud Native Network Functions (CNFs): One Concern per Container

This article discusses the “one concern, one process” design for containers and Cloud native network functions (CNFs).

W. Watson
on Mar 01, 2023