Kloudless uses Telegraf and InfluxDB for our system and application metrics as well as Grafana for visualizations and alerting. Telegraf allows us great flexibility in terms of data sources. It supports everything from the StatsD wire-protocol to custom shell scripts and database queries. Together, these tools form InfluxData’s TICK stack. For context, Kloudless provides an … Continue Reading
*This article was co-authored by Kyle Kelly-Yahner and was originally published in June of 2014 The feature phone is getting smarter and smarter every day. Using feature phones, you can send cat pictures using space age technology from the moon landing, find out exactly where your bus is, or unlock your apartment — all via text. The folks at Kloudless came … Continue Reading
Kloudless is a Unified API that abstracts away differences between different APIs to create a uniform interface for developers. Users can connect any supported service account without developers having to integrate each service into their apps individually. Applications that access user data sometimes need to connect to on-premises services. This is a common situation for … Continue Reading
Background Here at Kloudless, we provide a Docker Container for Kloudless Enterprise that makes it easy to manage a Kloudless Enterprise cluster using industry standard tools like Docker Swarm or Kubernetes. For some background, Kloudless provides a unified API that enables engineering teams to quickly integrate several software apps with a single implementation. This means … Continue Reading
Introduction There are times when your application needs to keep up with changes that take place in your users’ cloud storage. Perhaps your application needs to perform an action when new files appear, or needs to update its state when files are modified/deleted. Kloudless solves this problem by making an HTTP request (a “webhook“) to … Continue Reading
Hey hey! Following an intense month of events, I got inspired by all the cool hacks at Hack(bright) for Good, companies at TechCrunch Disrupt and developers at Kloud Kantina. I thought txt.us, a WhatsApp for feature phones (find their project source code here), was especially cool, so I wanted to see if I could take the idea one … Continue Reading
Disclaimer: This is coming from my personal experience with the Copy API and other cloud storage APIs. It is meant as a summary of the good aspects as well as the “gotchas” that I have encountered. Hopefully it will provide some insight into decisions that were made when designing the Kloudless API. This blog post … Continue Reading
Your Situation This could be quite varied, you could be: A solo developer looking for a fast/easy way to have a local dev environment that resembles your production environment (say you develop on OS X, but are deploying to an infrastructure running some distribution of Linux. As a bonus, there is also an easy way … Continue Reading