Have you worked in a high performance engineering (HiPeE) team, how do you know you are in one and why is it so hard to replicate that? Are there factors that make it possible for HiPeE teams to grow and sustain. This was a topic of discussion at a recent chat with a few folks. I speak from my own experiences having seen HiPeE teams and was lucky enough to be part of it couple of times. It came down to a few dimensions for me.
My notes from attending AWS re:invent 2016
Attended my first AWS re:invent conference. It was definitely a great experience. While the breakout sessions where okay, what I most enjoyed is the energy with 30k AWS enthusiasts in the building. And the re:play party was awesome – especially the performance by Martin Garrix.
Running Docker Swarm on Raspberry Pi 3
Notes on getting Docker Swarm cluster running on two Raspberry Pi 3 devices. We will then deploy a simple nodejs app container on the new cluster.
Spring Boot service in Docker Container
Updated one of my previous Spring Boot sample service to run within a Docker container – https://github.com/thomasma/quote-service-docker. You can run it locally w/o Docker as a regular Spring Boot app and next run it inside a Docker container. Make sure that you have Docker setup correctly and tested prior to running this app.
Taming your Microservice & Container Envy
It is hard not to be affected by the constant chatter on Microservices Architecture and Container technology. Both are leading the discussions nowadays and they combine to provide new ways to Architect distributed systems and provide agility in delivering business value. While they do bring in big benefits when implemented successfully, the path to success for most enterprises (other than startups/product/tech firms) is going to be difficult and having a level of measured caution would be good.
Mobile Build Options in One Slide
Random thoughts on mobile from a presentation slide I created a while back and some updates thoughts based on new information from talking to another expert.
Serverless Architecture Style
To discuss Serverless Architecture we need to understand how we got here. From using physical machines we moved to virtual machines (somewhere in between a few brave folks also used linux/solaris containers). The current trend is container technologies such as Docker or CoreOS RKT which allow even more efficient use of resources. Regardless of which you use, we are often required to plan our application infrastructure needs upfront and permanently keep the “servers” running.
Spring Boot + Spring Cloud (Eureka + Hystrix) to run API/Micro Services
Spring Boot and Spring Cloud are relatively newer additions to the Spring portfolio. Boot makes it faster to spin up your project with less configuration (and an opinionated programming model). Spring Cloud brings in techniques and tools to efficiently standup distributed applications. In a previous blog I had noted my ramblings on API/Microservices style. If you take that path and have more than a handful of API’s then you will need some of the capabilities of what Spring Boot and Spring Cloud offer.
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Running ElasticSearch in Production
(Updated version. Originally Published on: Nov 3, 2013) Here are some things to keep in mind as you go about designing your ElasticSearch cluster. Many of these are from real life experiences and IMO are the basic common sense items you should consider. In addition to these settings noted here, there maybe other settings that are relevant to your use case.
API and Microservices ramblings…
In the tech world one cannot stay a day away from hearing the words API or Microservices. For those who work in startups or tech firms (google type) these are well understood. But once you walk into large non-tech firms, these words are not as well understood.