March 27, 2019 David Thorman Engineering Monitoring PostgreSQL with Telegraf, InfluxDB, and Grafana 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
March 25, 2019 David Thorman Guides, Product, Storage API Sending Files From Feature Phones Using Twilio and Kloudless *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
February 25, 2019 David Thorman Company Integrating with on-prem apps via the Kloudless Connect proxy 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
February 19, 2019 David Thorman Engineering Custom Authentication to a private Docker Registry with Nginx, Lua, and AWS ECR 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
January 31, 2019 David Thorman Engineering, Product Extending an Amazon S3 integration to Google Cloud Storage with the Interop API Cloud storage services are a clear choice for ease of management and to incrementally scale costs with growth. Startups and enterprises alike look to “cloud” offerings first when choosing an object store for data. There are quite a few cloud storage services to choose from today. Check out our recent blog post to learn more … Continue Reading
October 19, 2014 David Thorman Guides Getting Started with Kloudless Webhooks 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
May 27, 2014 David Thorman Guides Send Documents on Feature Phones with Twilio and Kloudless 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
May 8, 2014 David Thorman Engineering A Look at the Copy API 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
July 1, 2013 David Thorman Engineering Automating Development Environments with Vagrant and Puppet 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