PostgreSQL is one of the data management services available for applications running on the Predix platform. This article shows how to work with a Cloud Foundry-hosted instance of the Postgres service from an ASP.NET application.

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React is a JavaScript library for building user interfaces; the technology is backed by Facebook and Instagram—among others. This article shows how to create a simple Tic Tac Toe game with React and then deploy the app to the Predix platform. The post also explains some of the React basics.

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Out of the box, Cloud Foundry doesn’t give us the ability to control application placement or to specify a target host(s) for an application. This may be critical when one needs to separate apps between different environments or host types—or for any other type of app segregation. The good news is that this can be resolved very easily.

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Java apps created in accordance with 12-factors are supposed to run in Cloud Foundry without modifications. However, sometimes the defaults provided by the public buildpacks don’t work. In this post, we will look at two ways to resolve out-of-memory errors.

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User Account and Authentication (UAA) is an identity management service in Cloud Foundry, used as an OAuth2 provider by the GE Predix platform. Being responsible for managing timed measurements, Time Series, in its turn, enables to efficiently and concurrently store data, as well as quickly retrieve it.

This post explains how to configure both services and to start using them in a sample Spring Boot app having two controllers (for querying and ingesting data).

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NetApp, a provider of high-performing data storage systems, has been working on adjusting its offerings to the requirements of NoSQL databases (such as MongoDB). As a result, the company now offers two MongoDB-certified flash storage solutions. Altoros joined the effort to evaluate these products.

This blog post reveals some of the performance results for the MongoDB integrated architecture deployed to NetApp E-Series.

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Altoros is bringing its knowledge to the biggest and greatest event of the Cloud Foundry community: the Cloud Foundry Summit in Santa Clara, CA. Thousands of attendees get together every year to share their experience, as well as learn, connect, and discuss Cloud Foundry and DevOps in general.

This year, three training sessions will be held, explaining how to deploy and manage Cloud Foundry, go cloud-native with microservices-based architectures, operate the platform with BOSH, etc. The training will be conducted by qualified instructors from Altoros, Pivotal, and Stark & Wayne—the companies that work with these tools on a daily basis. Read the details below.

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There are at least a dozen continuous integration solutions out there, but the majority of them are challenging to learn, scale, and debug. Most importantly, few of them were designed with pipelines in mind. Not able to find a tool that could handle something as massive and complex as Cloud Foundry, Pivotal decided to write their own. This resulted in Concourse CI, a user-friendly continuous delivery technology that focuses on pipelines, is easy to scale, runs anywhere, and works with anything.

From this post, you will learn how Concourse CI differs from other similar products, how it works, and how it can help you to “nitrocharge” your own projects.

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Previously, we deployed a .NET app to Diego on Pivotal CF and bound it to a MS SQL service. However, hardly any cloud app exists as a single instance. So, in this post, we will scale the demo app horizontally and test how it works on multiple instances.

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Apache Spark is an open-source engine for large-scale data processing. In Bluemix, you can access it via the integrated interface called IBM Analytics for Apache Spark. Using a Scala-based starter as an example, this article demonstrates how to interact with the service through Jupiter Notebook and the spark-submit.sh script.

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