Two Scoops of Django is a book series written by Daniel & Audrey. This book introduces Django developer with various tips, tricks patterns, code snippets & techniques. I have been reading these books, and each has valuable advice for people working with Django in production. more

Wondering how to transition your CMS server environment from “it just works” to a “well-designed fully functional” production environment? Through this talk, we will help you get started with planning & implementing a scalable CMS production environment, by adding some of the cloud services to your existing architecture. The talk will highlight changes you could do to your architecture in the fol… more

Watcher is a plugin for Elasticsearch that provides alerting and notification based on changes in your data (which is loaded via logs from various systems into Elasticsearch). The data can be anything either application logs or infrastructure logs or software logs or event logs. You can even design event-driven automation to self-heal the failed systems & services in production. more

Distributed tracing is a technique for monitoring & profiling systems built on microservices architecture. Distributed tracing is quickly becoming a must-have component in the tools that organizations use to monitor their complex, microservice-based architecture. Jaeger is an open source tool and part of CNCF project released and worked by Uber. more

How infrastructure evolved from Data Center to functions more

Lets discuss about how to use custom metrics in combination with the Kubernetes Horizontal Pod Autoscaler(HPA) to autoscale an application. Virtual nodes (virtual-kubelet) let you scale quickly and easily run Kubernetes pods on Container Instances where you’ll pay only for the container instance runtime. Let’s see a demo application using ServiceMonitor for Prometheus, a HPA, and a custom contain… more