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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…
Liz Rice
Feb 13, 2017
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%.
Anne Currie
Feb 10, 2017
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…
Anne Currie
Feb 9, 2017
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…
Ross Fairbanks
Feb 8, 2017
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…
Anne Currie
Nov 22, 2016
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…
Liz Rice
Jan 12, 2017
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…
Ross Fairbanks
Jan 4, 2017
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…
Anne Currie
Dec 8, 2016
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…
Liz Rice
Sep 20, 2016
[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.
Anne Currie
Jan 9, 2017
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.
Anne Currie
Oct 17, 2016
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