Written by Ares Vincente and Wim van Baaren, Scrum Masters At Leaseweb, things are constantly moving. New products, new vendors, new brands, new markets, new people, etc. For this we face a lot of challenges and uncertainty. That is why we try to be as nimble as possible! And as…

Written by Tim Rots and Karolis Malakauskas Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) are often the invisible glue in modern applications known to us. APIs, in short, are a method for software to interact with each other. …

Written by Angel Rushkov, Product Owner @ Leaseweb How to ensure business continuity and reliability for your services without significantly high costs, leveraging Leaseweb existing products and open-source tooling? With this use case, we would like to demonstrate how you can create high available stateful router/firewall infrastructure setup supporting your…

Written by Rolph Haspers, Engineering Manager @ Leaseweb Every device connected to the internet is open for cyber attacks. It takes less than one minute before a system is attacked once it is connected to the internet. …

Written by Hans Rakers, Senior Infrastructure Engineer @ Leaseweb This is part two in the series about Prometheus and Alertmanager. In the first part we installed the Prometheus server and the node exporter, in addition to discovering some of the measuring and graphing capabilities using the Prometheus server web interface. …

Written by Neven Dogovic, Product Owner @Leaseweb Virtual machines report on different types of usage metrics, such as server load, memory usage, and steal time. Customers often ask about steal time — what is it, and why is it reported on their virtual machines ? Read on as we explain…

Written by Stanislav Datskevych, Cloudstack Engineer @Leaseweb Domain Name System (DNS) is a crucial part of Internet infrastructure. It is responsible for translating a human-readable, memorizable domain (like leaseweb.com) into a numeric IP address (such as 89.255.251.130). In order to translate a domain into an IP address, your device sends…

Written by Nico Di Rocco, Senior Software Engineer and Rolph Haspers, Engineering Manager @ Leaseweb Over the years, the IT industry has moved from a single domain, monolithic architecture to a microservice architecture. In a microservice architecture, complex processes are split into smaller and simpler sub-processes. While this kind of…

Written by Branimir Petricevic, Software Engineer @ Leaseweb One of the most important but often overlooked criteria when choosing a hosting provider is the performance of its network. Poor network performance for any kind of online service leads to low customer satisfaction. What is the best way to measure network…