This blog post was originally published on D2iQ.com Despite the difficulties we’ve all experienced during this pandemic, it has been fascinating to watch how human beings have come together as communities all over the world to support each other, and our Cloud Native community is no different. It was incredible to be part of the collaboration between D2iQ and Container Solutions in bringing the Cloud Native Virtual Summit to life, and wonderful to see how folks from across our ecosystem responded to offer up their time and resources to take part.

This blog post was originally published on Devops.Com The original focus for Kubernetes was very much on stateless applications, which don’t rely on coordination between instances or sharing data between client sessions. In practice, that usually means that we can stop and start our stateless applications without data loss or impacting on client connections. If all applications were stateless, the world of application deployment and management would be super simple, but unfortunately that’s not all use cases.

This blog was originally published on D2iQ.com I’ve recently been doing some work with the new Percona-Server-MongoDB service for DC/OS, and as part of that work I decided to try and build out an IoT architecture using Percona-Server-MongoDB as the persistent storage backend. MongoDB is a popular choice for persistent storage in IoT architectures for a number of reasons, including high scalability, support for complex queries, and the fact that it doesn’t require strict schemas, so you can push documents to it in native JSON with different types for each field.