Backend Engineering|Published: Jun 14, 2021
Keep your CI/CD infrastructure alive with Jenkins Operator
Jenkins Kubernetes Operator can help you avoid unexpected downtime in CI/CD and opens doors for doing canary or blue/green deployment.
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Frontend Engineering|Published: Mar 22, 2021
Multi-Context Content Delivery - An Enterprise headless content delivery
There has come a time in every company when applications have developed to such an extent that a common content management solution is needed. It’s crucial to choose a proper one, which fits current requirements, but also will be ready for future growth.
Cloud Engineering|Published: Feb 17, 2021
Migrating a gigantic financial system to 20,000 pods in the cloud
Two developers recount their cloud migration of a massive, monolithic financial system—covering everything from Docker image overhaul to multi-cluster Kubernetes scaling—with emphasis on automation, security, and resilience. The article highlights tackling challenges like bulky container images, slow storage, DNS issues, and logging costs while running up to 20,000 pods.
Cloud Engineering|Published: Nov 20, 2020
Cloud transformation with adoption of inner sourcing at scale
This blog post covers mostly a summary of the significant amount of time spent with the team to help the company drive its large-scale Azure cloud transformation.
Cloud Engineering|Published: Jun 16, 2020
Preventing Fraud and Fighting Account Takeovers with Kafka Streams [reference architecture]
The below article describes the solution architecture we created for risk detection that provides results in real-time and at scale. Together with ksqlDB, features in the Kafka Streams framework help engineers focus on delivering real business value.
Backend Engineering|Published: Jan 30, 2019
On the missing package private — or why Java is better than Kotlin in this regard
Kotlin lacks Java’s package-private visibility, exposing everything by default unless explicitly marked, which can bloat APIs and hinder encapsulation. The author praises Java’s manifest-based modular exports for making visibility decisions more conscious and centralized.
Cloud Engineering|Published: Nov 2, 2018
Helm alternative
VirtusLab shows how to ditch Helm by converting charts into single Kubernetes manifest templates for full control. They demonstrate using their “render” tool to flatten, clean, and version your deployment manifests.
Cloud Engineering|Published: Jul 10, 2018
Think twice before using Helm
VirtusLab shares concerns about Helm’s hype, especially around its Tiller component and templating complexity. They point out how it adds layers—like auth and templating—that often create more work than value.
Backend Engineering|Published: Oct 28, 2015
Arrows, Monads and Kleisli — part 1
A general abstraction extends functions into composable building blocks, enabling the expression of business logic as data flows. This shift transforms side‑effecting, exception‑ridden code into clean, purely functional pipelines.
