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Microscaling in practice

Microscaling in practice

We’ve recently written about how we’re using Microscaling on our production MicroBadger deployment — adjusting the number of containers in…
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Liz Rice

Microscaling in Production Cuts our SQS Bill by 50%

Our Microscaling SLA scheduler has been successfully in production for over a month and has cut our target SQS bill by over 50%.
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Anne Currie
Microscaling on Ice — For Now

Microscaling on Ice — For Now

When Liz, Ross and Anne started working together on Microscaling Systems in 2015 we wanted to explore what was possible with containers and…
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Anne Currie
Microscaling MicroBadger

Microscaling MicroBadger

We’re using Microscaling to scale our own production MicroBadger Kubernetes deployment in real time. Here’s the story of what we did, and…
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Ross Fairbanks
Trending

What’s the Difference Between DNS and Service Discovery?

The quick answer is service discovery (SD) is for internal use, so one of your internal applications can find another within your system…
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Anne Currie
Metadata in action! Get a Docker image’s scaling parameters from its labels

Metadata in action! Get a Docker image’s scaling parameters from its labels

Our latest microscaling demo gets the scaling parameters for a container image from labels in its metadata, by reading them from the new…
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Liz Rice
Dockerfile security tuneup

Dockerfile security tuneup

I recently watched 2 great talks on container security by Justin Cormack from Docker at Devoxx Belgium and Adrian Mouat from Container…
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Ross Fairbanks
K8s/AWS : Mad Scheme or Cunning Plan?

K8s/AWS : Mad Scheme or Cunning Plan?

At Microbadger we’ve recently looked into the networking issues of running Kubernetes on AWS. I’ve previously discussed how we chose our…
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Anne Currie
That’s not my image!

That’s not my image!

No one likes spam, obviously, but the rise of pretty decent spam filtering (thank you Gmail!) means that folks are perhaps a little less…
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Liz Rice
[EXPERIMENTAL] MicroBadger Metadata API for Docker Hub Images

[EXPERIMENTAL] MicroBadger Metadata API for Docker Hub Images

The Microbadger Metadata API is a simple API that lets you query the build-time labels for any Docker Hub public image.
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Anne Currie
Pick a Side! Why Container Metadata is Vital to Peace

Pick a Side! Why Container Metadata is Vital to Peace

Containers are rather unusual, maybe even unique. They appear to be both a development technology and an operational technology.
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Anne Currie
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