We often hear about companies implementing new projects, but their full-time staff is already working overtime. An overloaded staff will undoubtedly lead to undesirable results. So how do you find the right talent to implement these projects with risk mitigation, quality control, and cost leverage? Enter staff augmentation. Staff augmentation is an outsourcing strategy that …
Kafka is a big data service used by many enterprises to move data between other systems and it has become an essential part of many infrastructures. It provides uniform ways to allow for both batch and stream analytics as well as helping organizations provide pipelines for publishing data to other systems. The Kafka ecosystem supports …
Kafka: Stream All Things (or at least all the data) Read More »
Google has been a leader in the adoption of containers and their utilization at scale for a very long time. Many of their services – search, GMail, and Maps – run in containers and Google has been generous to share their enormous experience with the challenges of administering software at scale (much as they did …
Kubernetes: Consolidate Workloads and Run Operations at Scale Read More »
The DevOps landscape and the hundreds of tools it contains are much like a vast garage, filled with sophisticated instruments and expensive tooling. Each area of the garage is organized around a certain set of operations and is tuned to efficiently accommodate the operations which go on there (storage, cluster computing, and resource management). On …
