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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
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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
Who Would Win in a Fight Between Kubernetes and ECS?

Who Would Win in a Fight Between Kubernetes and ECS?

We (Microbadger) currently run on AWS with Google’s Kubernetes (k8s) as our container orchestrator. In this post, I’ll talk about some of…
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Anne Currie
Compose or Dockerfile? It’s Complicated.

Compose or Dockerfile? It’s Complicated.

It’s a good idea to put labels on your Docker images for many reasons we’ve talked about before. But should you put the labels in your…
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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
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
Using Docker tags to mess with people’s minds

Using Docker tags to mess with people’s minds

Tags are annotations that can be applied to Docker images after they’re built. If you look at an image in a repository like Docker Hub or…
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Liz Rice
Labelling automated builds on Docker Hub

Labelling automated builds on Docker Hub

This is a follow up to my previous post Labelling problems with Docker automated builds. There is now a solution using a build hook.
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Ross Fairbanks
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