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Edge Computing and Video Streaming: Improving User Experience

If you’re in the tech community then it’s highly like that you have (at least) heard talk of edge computing. But what, exactly, is the latest tech buzzword referring to? What do they mean when they describe running applications “at the edge”? And, when it’s all said and done, what is it about edge computing

Edge Analytics Enables New Retail Solutions with Value and Efficiency

In the world of retail, all real-world activities like shopping, billing, inventory management, and logistics happen at different locations while the data analytics that drives all these activities is performed in a centralized data center or a public cloud location. This divide will soon be a thing of the past as edge computing pushes data

Design Patterns for Modern Private Clouds

In the public cloud, “design patterns” have emerged as a popular concept for defining cloud strategies tailored to specific use cases or goals. Microsoft offers a series of design patterns for Azure, for example, and practitioners have adopted similar strategies for AWS. To date, however, there has been less discussion of design patterns for private

Bringing Private Cloud Architectures into the Modern Age

Today’s private clouds must accommodate a range of new needs and use cases that the private clouds of the past rarely contended with. At the same time, new technologies (or old technologies that have matured) have created novel opportunities for building out hybrid clouds. For both of these reasons, redefining private cloud architectures is one

Kubernetes Secrets Management

Like many computing systems, your Kubernetes environment requires the use of sensitive information. Sensitive values (such as passwords, SSH keys, and security tokens) are referred to collectively as secrets. In this article, we will explain how to store and manage the secrets in your Kubernetes environment, and we will examine the capabilities of Kubernetes and

4 Large-Scale Kubernetes Best Practices

Kubernetes deployments can scale to support services and applications that run in a broad array of environments, from multi-cloud deployments to resource-constrained edge computing environments. But as businesses look to save money by optimizing infrastructural resources, the process of deploying thousands of microservices over geographically distributed servers can become increasingly complicated. If your company will

Key Considerations for Doing Kubernetes Right

Kubernetes is widely recognized as a platform that enables highly efficient use of infrastructure, but organizations need to understand those benefits are maximized when the developer experience itself is optimized. Developers are increasingly assuming responsibilities for systems operations. In the past, it was common to have a separate team of systems administrators responsible for deploying

Where to Install Kubernetes? Bare-Metal vs. VMs. vs. Cloud

One of the things that makes Kubernetes so powerful is that it can run virtually anywhere: On bare metal servers and virtual machines, on-premises or in the public cloud. (These are overlapping categories to an extent, because an on-premises cluster could be hosted using bare-metal servers or virtual machines.) Yet the fact that Kubernetes can

Kubernetes Cluster Sizing – How Large Should a Kubernetes Cluster Be?

When it comes to Kubernetes clusters, size matters. The number of nodes in your cluster plays an important role in determining the overall availability and performance of your workloads. So does the number of namespaces, in a way. This does not mean, however, that bigger is always better. A Kubernetes cluster sizing strategy that aims

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