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How does a Prometheus Histogram work?

How does a Prometheus Histogram work? We looked previously at thecounter, gauge, and summary, how does the Prometheus histogram work? The histogram has several similarities to the summary.

Building a Service Mesh with Envoy

Service Mesh is the communication layer in a microservice setup. All requests, to and from each of the services go through the mesh. Also known as an infrastructure layer in a microservices setup, the service mesh makes communication between services reliable and secure.

Monitoring blocked and passthrough external service traffic

What are BlackHole and Passthrough clusters? Understanding, controlling and securing your external service access is one of the key benefits that you get from a service mesh like Istio. From a security and operations point of view, it is critical to monitor what external service traffic is getting blocked as they might surface possible misconfigurations or a security vulnerability if an application is attempting to communicate with a service that it should not be allowed to.

Scaling a Mature Data Pipeline—Managing Overhead

Before delving into our specifics, I want to take a moment to discuss the technical stack backing our pipeline. Our platform uses a mixture of Spark and Hive jobs. Our core pipeline is primarily implemented in Scala.

Peloton – Uber’s Webscale Unified Scheduler on Mesos & Kubernetes

Cloud-Powered, Next-Generation Banking

Traditional banks make extensive use of labor-intensive, human-centric control structures such as Production Support groups, Security Response teams, and Contingency Planning organizations. These control structures were deemed necessary in order to segment responsibilities and to maintain a security posture that is risk averse. Unfortunately, this traditional model tends to keep the subject matter experts in these organizations at a distance from the development teams, reducing efficiency and getting in the way of innovation.

The Future of League’s Engine

Hiya folks, Brian ‘Penrif’ Bossé, your local friendly Tech Lead of League here. I’m taking some time in between matches of TFT to wax philosophic about game engines and how we on League make decisions around what direction to take our custom game engine. Join me on a moderately long look at one dimension of game engine design, where League currently exists on that dimension, and where we’re taking the game from there.

Operating Apache Kafka Clusters 24/7 Without A Global Ops Team

Building a document understanding pipeline with Google Cloud

Document understanding is the practice of using AI and machine learning to extract data and insights from text and paper sources such as emails, PDFs, scanned documents, and more. In the past, capturing this unstructured or “dark data” has been an expensive, time-consuming, and error-prone process requiring manual data entry. Today, AI and machine learning have made great advances towards automating this process, enabling businesses to derive insights from and take advantage of this data that had been previously untapped.

Introducing Maesh: A Service Mesh for Kubernetes

On September 4th, 2019, Containous, a cloud infrastructure software provider, released Maesh, an open-source service mesh written in Golang and built on top of the reverse proxy and load balancer Traefik. Maesh promises to provide a lightweight service mesh solution that is easy to get started with and to roll out across a microservice application.