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By Alex Henthorn-Iwane, Ameet Naik, Christian Beedgen, Dave Bermingham, Diogenes Rettori, Priyank Patel, Seth Noble, Victor Lee

How to create a Microsoft SQL Server failover cluster in the Google Cloud

A step-by-step guide to using SAN-less failover clustering software to support SQL Server’s Always On Failover Clustering in the public cloud

06/06/18

How Arcadia Data brings self-service BI to the data lake

The data lake is a new approach to data management that requires a new approach to analytics

05/30/18

The rise of the Istio service mesh

How do you bring reliability, security, and manageability to microservices communications? Enter the service mesh

05/23/18

7 secrets to scaling with microservices

Follow these steps to ensure a successful transition from monolithic app to distributed microservices. They worked for Sumo Logic

05/16/18

TigerGraph: The parallel graph database explained

How TigerGraph achieves fast data ingest, fast graph traversal, and deep link analytics even for large data sets

05/02/18

How to gain visibility into a multicloud environment

A successful multicloud strategy requires effective awareness of all interdependencies—and a new approach to network monitoring

04/25/18

6 hidden bottlenecks in cloud data migration

From navigating cloud storage options to verifying the data post-transfer, follow these steps to avoid the hazards of cloud migration

04/18/18

3 key steps for running chaos engineering experiments

Only by breaking your systems can you learn to make them better. Just break them in a controlled way

04/11/18

Stateful stream processing with Apache Flink

Apache Flink is made for applications that continuously apply the same business logic to a series of inputs. That’s most business applications

04/04/18

5 common pitfalls of CI/CD—and how to avoid them

What’s the secret to devops success? Start with continuous integration and continuous deployment

03/28/18

How web annotation will transform content management

W3C standard annotation is a fundamental upgrade to the web that will bridge information silos and enable far easier content sharing and reuse

03/21/18

How to bring BI and analytics to modern nested data structures

Nested data structures are a boon to modeling, storage, and query performance, but pose challenges to traditional BI tools. Here’s how to overcome them

03/14/18

Machine learning: What developers and business analysts need to know

There is more to a successful application of machine learning than data science

03/07/18

TiDB: Performance-tuning a distributed NewSQL database

A brief introduction to the open source hybrid transactional and analytical database and how to tune write operations for maximum performance

02/28/18

7 essential technologies for a modern data architecture

These key technologies are “re-platforming” the enterprise to enable faster, easier, more flexible access to large volumes of precious data

02/21/18

3 common pitfalls of microservices integration—and how to avoid them

How to overcome the challenges of remote communication, asynchronicity, and transactions in microservices infrastructure

02/14/18

QF2 for AWS: High-performance file storage for the cloud

Qumulo File Fabric is a modern, highly scalable file storage system that spans the data center and the public cloud

02/07/18

Why you should use a graph database

Graph databases excel for apps that explore many-to-many relationships, such as recommendation systems. Let's look at an example

01/31/18

Traffic-shaping WebSockets using Node.js and Redis

How to protect your WebSocket-enabled application against traffic spikes by using Redis as a real-time request counter

01/24/18

Shift your Java applications into containers with Jelastic PaaS

Use Jelastic's container-based PaaS to ease the migration of your VM-based Java applications into modern container clusters

01/17/18