Author: Chris Engelbert
Simplyblock's blog brings you the latest of storage, cloud, and thought leadership
Chris Engelbert
Apr 03rd, 2024 | 8 min read
What is a Kubernetes Persistent Volume?
A persistent volume is a slice of storage provisioned by a Kubernetes administrator that can be attached and mounted to pods. Like everything in Kubernetes, it is a resource inside the cluster, and it
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 28th, 2024 | 3 min read
AWS Cost Optimization with Cristian Magherusan-Stanciu from AutoSpotting (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube, Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment, we’r
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 27th, 2024 | 8 min read
Kubernetes CSI: Container Attached Storage
Containerized services must be stateless, a doctrine that was widely used in the early days of containerization, which came hand-in-hand with microservices. While it makes elasticity easy, these days,
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 22nd, 2024 | 25 min read
Kubernetes for AI, GKE, and serverless with Abdellfetah Sghiouar from Google (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube, Spotify, iTunes/Apple Podcasts, Pandora, Samsung Podcasts, and our show site. In this installment, we’re ta
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 20th, 2024 | 6 min read
What is Kubernetes: The Components and The Beast
During the last decade containerized services have emerged as the game-changer in terms of deployment simplicity, scalability, and componentization or modularization. Kubernetes is at the forefront of
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 15th, 2024 | 19 min read
Confidential Computing with Moritz Eckert from Edgeless Systems (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment , we’
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 11th, 2024 | 16 min read
Distributed SQL Databases with Franck Pachot from Yugabyte (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment , we’
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 08th, 2024 | 22 min read
Data center and application sustainability with Rich Kenny from Interact (interview)
This interview is part of the simplyblock Cloud Commute Podcast, available on Youtube , Spotify , iTunes/Apple Podcasts , Pandora , Samsung Podcasts, and our show site . In this installment , we’
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Chris Engelbert
Mar 06th, 2024 | 9 min read
What is Erasure Coding: A Shield Against Data Loss
Erasure Coding (erasure code) is a data protection mechanism that protects against data loss by breaking data items, such as files, into fragments, calculating additional data pieces (parity informati
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Chris Engelbert
Feb 28th, 2024 | 9 min read
AWS EBS Pricing: A Comprehensive Guide
In the vast landscape of cloud computing, Amazon Elastic Block Store (Amazon EBS) stands out as a crucial component for storage in AWS’ Amazon EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service), as well as other AWS
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