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Developer Experience with Spring Boot on Kubernetes by Thomas Vitale @ Spring I/O 2023

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OpenCost – Open Source Cost Monitoring for Cloud Environments

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Some time ago, I recommended Vantage as a unified AWS cost tracking tool. As an - also cloud vendor-neutral - cost monitoring tool, with OpenCost there now is an open source solution for this use case as well. Instead of relying on a third-party service, OpenCost allows you to run your own cost monitoring service in your Kubernetes cluster, which might be a useful alternative, especially for enterprise environments where Kubernetes experience and DevOps resources are ...

24. September 2023 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Spring Framework 6: Infrastructure Themes by Juergen Hoeller @ Spring I/O 2022

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16. Oktober 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

New Stratospheric Blog Post on Faster Amazon ECS Container Deployments

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.This week, we published a new Stratospheric blog post on how we achieved faster Amazon ECS Container deployments. So, if you're running containerized applications on AWS you might want to check this out. While that specific example uses the AWS CDK in its Java incarnation the general ideas and settings are generally applicable and therefore should easily translate to other languages and environments, too.

12. Juni 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Optimising Docker Image Sizes: “Self-extracting” Node.js Applications

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.As a follow-up on last week's article on tools for inspecting Docker images, and Docker image sizes in particular, today I'd like to introduce another - more custom - approach for reducing the size of Docker images for production deployments. As a means of shaving off an additional 50 MB from the packaged application in question I came up with an idea somewhat reminiscent of the self-extracting archives of yore (of the WinRAR and 7-Zip ...

13. Februar 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Tools for Inspecting Docker Images

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Recently, I needed to inspect a Docker image in order to optimize its size for distribution and deployment on an ARM-based industrial microcontroller with rather tight bandwidth constraints. Once deployed at customer sites, these controllers typically don't have an Internet connection but still need to be updated occasionally, via the local network in that case. Since there's no guaranteed minimum network speed in this type of environment, yet software updates still have to complete within ...

6. Februar 2022 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

Cloudcraft – Cloud Architecture Diagrams and Visualisations

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.After recently having written about AWS cloud visualisation and management tools such as CloudMapper and Vantage I was made aware of yet another such tool by Sebastian Reuße: Cloudcraft allows you to not only visualise your AWS cloud architecture with beautiful as well as somewhat playful isometric infrastructure diagrams reminiscent of turn-based strategy games but also provides live connectivity with your actual AWS infrastructure and so-called "smart" components. Using these features you don't have to manually ...

4. April 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

Vantage – A Unified AWS Console

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.In last week's blog post I casually mentioned that out-of-the-box with AWS there's no single unified console providing you with an overview of your deployed infrastructure. Thankfully, there's Vantage - a centralized dashboard that provides you with such an overview and cost transparency across AWS regions and accounts through views, global search, and actionable insights. Up to $500 in monthly AWS spend Vantage is free. Beyond that there are Pro and Business plans at a monthly ...

28. März 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software, Web Applikation

CloudMapper: An AWS Visualisation Tool

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.CloudMapper is an AWS visualisation tool that's highly useful for getting an overview of your AWS infrastructure and network setup. Depending on the number of services, instances, VPCs, and subnets used, getting lost is quite easy, especially when considering that out-of-the-box with AWS there's no single unified console from which to get an overview of your deployed resources but rather a multitude of consoles, one for each AWS service. Therefore, keeping track of your infrastructure and ...

21. März 2021 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Allgemein, Software, Web Applikation

Monoliths Aren’t Inherently Bad

Leider ist der Eintrag nur auf English verfügbar.Self-professed minimalist developer Kelsey Hightower a few months ago wrote about monoliths being the future. The microservice design pattern has been trending in software development for quite some now. Unfortunately, more often than not it's been indiscriminately treated as a panacea to every software architecture and design problem out there. Microservices can help with one aspect specifically: Reducing deployment risk. If you have a large monolith and frequently need to make changes to a specific part or ...

22. März 2020 by Bjoern in Enterprise Software, Software

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