Tilt

The Online Boutique is a cutting-edge demonstration of how modern microservices can be used to build scalable, resilient, and efficient web applications. Developed by Google and open-sourced for the benefit of the broader community, this 11-tier application showcases the power of technologies like Kubernetes, Istio, Stackdriver, and gRPC. As a…

Sample Django project demonstrating how to use Tilt with Helm to develop a Django application in Kubernetes. This project uses the django polls app (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/4.1/intro/tutorial01/) from the Django documentation and is configured to use PostgreSQL and MinIO as the database and file storage backend respectively. Prerequisites This post assumes that you…

The strategies and tools you need to work faster and smarter — Since its inception, the Apolitical platform has been expanding its reach to an ever-increasing number of public servants across the globe. Alongside this growth, the platform’s functionality has also been evolving to meet user needs. And in the same way, to ensure we succeed in our user-centred mission, the engineering…

The idea of this post is to introduce an easy way to debug Go applications running in Kubernetes. Let’s introduce briefly the tools we are going to use before we get down to the point. Why a debugger? Who has not ever found that their program does not work due…

A heretical suggestion, building on the heretical hypothesis, offering a possible mechanism for the controversial syndrome “ME” (Myalgic Encephalomyelitis), also “CFS” (Chronic Fatigue Syndrome). This is speculation on my part. Enough details need to be filled in that this isn’t at the stage of being a scientific hypothesis yet. Given…

Co-Authored by Frank Bagherzadeh This is a follow-up post to “Why We Moved to Local Kubernetes Development at Clear Street” Testing is important, especially at Clear Street. Our system processes millions of trades a day and correctness is vital in our industry. Before Ivy (a.k.a., Clear Street’s branch deploy service…more…

At Clear Street, we run hundreds of services to provide prime brokerage products to our clients. Dozens of scheduled batch jobs process millions of trades, journals, and transactions every day to facilitate trade clearing, calculate risk, and generate financial reports. Our Kubernetes clusters manage all of these critical microservices and…

On Part 2 we will create a basic web app, install all the needed tools and start to deploy our simple microservices to our local kubernetes cluster with Tilt and with “hot reloading”. If you want to learn a bit about zero trust in general, please refer to part one…

Imagine the following: You are a High Colonel of the Imperial Army and you have some problems to solve like: Train your troops to work as a team before you send them into battle Orchestrate thousands of Stormtroopers or multiple regiments of them Ensure that only valid personnel can send…