As a tech company, many of our systems are developed in-house, and we take much interest in development related topics. Read news and how-to’s in these blogs.
Magento ® is one of today’s most popular e-commerce platforms and widely used for automating online stores. Integrating this open-source content management system with the Leaseweb CDN can really optimize performance of your e-commerce web site and in this blog we describe what you need to do to set it up quickly and easily. A […]
Algolia is a distributed Search-as-a-Service API that processes more than 4 billions user-generated queries per month. Algolia’s DNA is performance, the service is optimized to reply in milliseconds from any location worldwide while maintaining high availability. Today, Algolia’s co-founder and CTO Julien Lemoine provides details on their architecture, showing how they designed their fault tolerant […]
There are many cloud offerings on the market, and many hosting providers who would like to partner with resellers when it comes to cloud solutions offered to customers. How is Leaseweb’s cloud different?
In today’s connected world APIs are a key element. Automation and integration is not possible without the use of APIs. APIs are used for communication between applications without user intervention. At Leaseweb we are using a lot of different APIs to automate processes, for example when delivering newly ordered servers. Most of the APIs are for […]
After Cloud and Big Data, a new buzzword has arrived on the scene: Internet of Things. Self-driving cars, connected tennis rackets, and connected refrigerators—everything connected. Analysts and companies such as Cisco and Intel predict that 20-40 billion of devices will be connected to the Internet by 2020. Recently, my colleague Dan Murariu offered his vision […]
While trying to put my thoughts on paper for this post, I remembered one of the most entertaining TV shows that I recently saw: Shark Tanks. The show features a panel of potential investors, called “sharks”, who consider offers from aspiring entrepreneurs seeking investments for their business or product. Therefore, I start looking forward to […]
It’s no secret that Leaseweb heavily relies on automation to manage the large network of services that we offer. Over the last five years, we have been investing a lot in our internal systems and our strategy has been to have them communicate via APIs (specifically web services).
Like we announced in this press release, last week we launched the Leaseweb Private Cloud, powered by Apache CloudStack. With this new solution, we are addressing the need for a flexible, resource-pool based, private cloud product. The offering is based on Apache CloudStack, and gives customers full control over their private cloud, while we take care […]
At Leaseweb, the Product Development and Operations departments are working together on building a new cloud platform. We’re now at a stage where we can share our vision on the cloud, what it means for Leaseweb and how we implement it into our products.
Back in April we were on the hunt for an Innovation Engineer to join the Leaseweb team. Good news, we found one and he will be joining us at The O’Reilly Open Source Convention next week. Mukesh, Paolo, Sander, myself, and Vyvyan, our corporate recruiter, will be heading there on a quest to find even […]