Billy Thompson

Billy Thompson is a Solutions Engineering Manager at Akamai.

Portability in the Cloud: Cloud Native and Containers

Billy Thompson

Portability in the Cloud: Cloud Native and Containers

by Billy Thompson

Cloud native technologies are essential for building highly-portable applications in the cloud. Discover container best practices and more.

Containers (Kubernetes, Docker)

Portability in the Cloud: Microservices Architecture

Billy Thompson

Portability in the Cloud: Microservices Architecture

by Billy Thompson

Microservices should be scalable and focused on a single responsibility. Discover why you should consider them and some best practices.

Developer Tools

Billy Thompson

Deploy a Cloud-Based Electronic Document Management System

by Billy Thompson

Our reference architecture demonstrates a cloud EDMS using open source tools including PostgreSQL, Mayan, and Linode Object Storage.

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Galera Database Reference Architecture for MySQL and MariaDB

by Billy Thompson

Design a highly-available database architecture with Galera database for MySQL or MariaDB.

Continuous Operations and High Availability with Galera Database Clusters

Billy Thompson

Continuous Operations and High Availability with Galera Database Clusters

by Billy Thompson

Fast and easy deployment of Galera with Ansible is an example of how open source software works together on Linode.