Software Engineering
What is Cloud Native?
I hear a lot of people talking about cloud native applications these days. This includes technologists and...
Daniel Watrous
I'm a Software & Electrical Engineer and online entrepreneur.
Software Engineering
Microservices are not as new as you think
All around me architects and business managers are beginning to mandate that internal software applications be built...
Software Engineering
Bulid a multi-server Hadoop cluster in OpenStack in minutes
In a previous post I demonstrated a method to deploy a multi-node Hadoop cluster using Vagrant and...
Software Engineering
Install and configure a Multi-node Hadoop cluster using Ansible
I’ve recently been involved with several groups interested in using Hadoop to process large sets of data,...
Software Engineering
Configuration of python web applications
Hopefully it’s obvious that separating configuration from application code is always a good idea. One simple and...
Software Engineering
Encryption of secrets in source code (AESCrypt + Ansible)
The more I automate, the more I have to answer the question of how to manage my...
Software Engineering
Increase Munin Resolution to sub-minute
I previously explained how to get one-minute resolution in Munin. The process to get sub-minute resolution in...
Software Engineering
Increase Munin Resolution to One Minute
I’ve recently been conducting some performance testing of a PaaS solution. In an effot to capture specific...
Software Engineering
Understanding Munin Plugins
Munin is a monitoring tool which captures and graphs system data, such as CPU utilization, load and...
Software Engineering
Managed services in Stackato
This post is an extension of Managed services in CloudFoundry and follows the discussion of external services...