Top 10 PaaS providers of 2022 and what they offer you

PaaS is a cloud computing platform designed to enable organizations to deploy, provision and run applications without needing to build out the underlying infrastructure

Like many of the other PaaS options discussed here, Elastic Beanstalk is designed to act as a managed service that frees you from having to build out infrastructure or perform any complex configurations

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Doing more with less: Moving from transactional to stateful batch processing

Our new architecture needed to address the deficiencies while preserving the core goal of our service: update stateful artifacts based on incoming financial events.

We used an Apache Spark application on a long-running Amazon EMR cluster to simultaneously ingest input batch data and perform reduce operations to produce the stateless artifacts and a corresponding index file for the stateful processing to use.

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Authentication (AuthN) and Authorization (AuthZ) Tutorial for Kubernetes

This article will define and contrast AuthN and AuthZ, then delve into how they can be used in the context of Kubernetes to secure your cluster and its operations.

System components, such as kubelets (the Kubernetes node agent), pods, and other components of the control plane (scheduler and controllers) also need to authenticate with the API server.

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