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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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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
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
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
Containers+Metadata+Orchestrators=$$$

Containers+Metadata+Orchestrators=$$$

Containers are a discrete packaging format that helps us quickly and quietly move applications from one place to another. But what’s so…
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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
Labelling problems with Docker automated builds

Labelling problems with Docker automated builds

Update: there is now a solution allowing us to generate labels at build time.
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Ross Fairbanks
What Are Change Notifications?

What Are Change Notifications?

Get webhook-notified by Microbadger whenever a specified public image is updated on Docker Hub.
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Anne Currie
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