At GitHub, we serve tens of thousands of requests every second out of our network edge, operating on GitHub’s metal cloud. We’ve previously introduced GLB, our scalable load balancing solution for bare metal datacenters, which powers the majority of GitHub’s…

Facing the need for a resilient data structure over thousands of storage nodes to serve the 15 million rides per day that occur on our platform, Uber engineers developed Herb, our data replication solution. Herb ensures data availability and integrity across…

Using dev test methods in the ops environment may catch potential infrastructure issues before they become problems.

Here's how to ensure that the tools you select reinforce the values of your organization.

We recently shared some strategies for sniffing out DevOps fakers in your recruiting and hiring. By DevOps fakers, we mean candidates whose qualifications for a DevOps role might be more hype than substance.

Adding test coverage to our Serverless framework projects helps us to ensure that we are effectively testing our production-level applications.

At Zapier, we're big fans of Graylog, and rely heavily on its logs to help us track down tricky bugs and correlate customer issues with specific outages.Recently, we needed to upgrade our Graylog c…

We take a closer look at how our team is focusing on the reliability and scalability of our platform.

Intel launched its new Intel Xeon Scalable processors, providing businesses with breakthrough performance to handle compute-hungry tasks including real-time analytics, virtualized infrastructure and high-performance computing.

In this Redis tutorial, learn how to install and setup Redis as well as commands to write, read, update, and delete data from the store using its core data structures.

It’s graduation day for only the second time in the three-year history of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation: Prometheus, an open-source project that helps companies use performance data to monitor…

Check out this article to learn more about how the world's most popular container orchestrator has applications for both cloud-native and on-prem solutions.

When you really look at it, it is a database with some reflective API magic and pluggable triggers.

As of the end of July 2018, the Let’s Encrypt root, ISRG Root X1, is directly trusted by Microsoft products. Our root is now trusted by all major root programs, including Microsoft, Google, Apple, Mozilla, Oracle, and Blackberry.
Today’s announcement that…

Will Bengtson, Netflix Security Tools and Operations

Yesterday Oracle announced a new online transaction processing database service, finally bringing its key database technology into the cloud. The company, which has been around for over four decades made its mark selling databases to the biggest companies…

The story of embracing failure at scale

I am creating a series of blog posts to help you develop, deploy and run (mostly) Python applications on AWS Lambda using Serverless…

Modern web applications are complex. The expectations of your users regarding your application are constantly increasing: nowadays, an…

This is the second post in a series, sharing a number of observed anti-patterns and corresponding patterns on the topic of organisational…

This is an excerpt from the cloud native organization cookbook I’m working on. This is from the leadership section, covering the need to build alliances. More at the end. Lone wolves rarely succeed…