Analysis of a Kubernetes hack — Backdooring through kubelet

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past three years, you’ve probably heard about Kubernetes. At Handy, our infrastructure is backed by a multi-cluster Kubernetes ecosystem that drives our development, CI/CD, and…

Taming ElasticSearch Field Explosion

Over time, it’s easy for the number of fields within your ElasticSearch (ES) index to grow to…

Sidekiq Best Practices

Scheduling home services at the tap of a button seems simple on Handy’s frontend, but actually consists of a series of…

Practical Capacity Scheduling with YARN

Or, getting the bugs out of your YARN.

Renaming HDFS Data Nodes Considered Terribly Harmful

Our Hadoop Setup

We are currently building out our data processing and capture capability with Hadoop stack technologies. This post looks at what…

A Football is Better than a Bag of Marbles

Or, how we managed to make our stack run more efficiently…

Roundtripping Geospatial Data through MySQL and Hive