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Simple Talks Podcast | S2, Episode 1 - Coffee Chat with Scott Stauffer

It is the start of season 2, and we are kicking it off with Scott Stauffer talking about coffee, video games, the glorious innovation of technology over our years, guide dogs, AI, and so much more. Without giving away too much, in the show there is a discussion about guide dogs.

Simplifying DNS Automation with ExternalDNS and cert-manager

Managing DNS records in Kubernetes at scale is complex, especially as clusters grow and the number of applications increases. Enter ExternalDNS—a tool designed to automate DNS record synchronization with Kubernetes resources, providing the agility and scalability needed for modern application environments.

Netdata vs Prometheus: A 2025 Performance Analysis

When it comes to infrastructure monitoring, performance, scalability, and efficiency are critical considerations. In this blog post, we revisit two widely adopted open-source monitoring solutions: Netdata and Prometheus. Both tools have introduced notable improvements in their latest versions, emphasizing scalability and enhanced efficiency.

Top Continuous Integration Tools: Spotlight on Jenkins CI/CD

Are you tired of producing high-quality code fast, in the right way, based on the size of your organization? Code changes must be deployed reliably, successfully, and quickly. It helps teams catch problems early, enhances code quality, and speeds up delivery timelines. This comprehensive blog will dig into everything related to CI, from understanding its benefits and best practices to deploying CI. We will also show how ACCELQ could ease your continuous integration and allow your team members to catch up in the tech market.

Intro to proxymock, a free traffic-based service mocking tool within VS Code.

Speedscale's proxymock is a free VS Code plugin that passively listens to transactions, so developers can replay past responses or inbound transactions like a time machine. Past transactions can serve as non-rate-limited service mocks, editable databases, or even regression/load/chaos tests. Building service mocks to serve as service virtualization/mocks can be time consuming and manual. Maintaining complex, shared environments for engineering incurs expensive cloud costs and aren't often accurate.

Failover cluster storage: A comprehensive guide

Availability is the most important driving factor that shapes every decision an organization makes. To ensure high availability, failover clustering is one of the most commonly used solutions in modern IT infrastructure. In this article, we'll learn what failover cluster storage, cluster shared storage, and cluster shared volumes are. Then, we will guide you on how to manage and monitor these crucial resources.