Amazon Web Services is seeing five predominant usage patterns for its Lambda serverless service, according to a recent presentation.

A stand-alone tool for building container images in a fast and consistent way regardless of the eventual deployment environment.

Dropbox has open sourced a chat bot it uses for distributing security alerts raised by its monitoring systems. GitHub repo.

This eBook introduces scalability analysis using Dr. Gunther’s Universal Scalability Law, which models & predicts how systems perform, & illustrates deep truths about scalability. This book outlines why systems fail to scale well what to do about it.

Based on experiences scaling a 30+ million player gaming platform, some thoughts on microservices, container orchestration and scaling.

A 5 hour S3 outage was last week’s big news, and now Amazon has done a post mortem of what caused it.

Ansible Container is an open source project for building Docker images and orchestrating containers using only Ansible playbooks.

Facebook has upgraded its data centers to run at 100Gbps which has required some creative work on optical transceivers.

Docker was born at dotCloud, a PaaS company. This post digs into how Docker originated and how it turned into what it is today.

The software maker seeks to cut costs in its Azure cloud business by developing new hardware.