Looking at different frameworks for infrastructure as code I’ve been meaning to look into this for a while now knowing there are a number of frameworks/tools available to achieve infrastructure as code. A new one was released only a few weeks ago by AWS aws…

9 minute read Before 2015, we had an Operations and Performance team. Around this time, we decided to create the Production Engineering department and merge the teams. The department is responsible for building and maintaining common infrastructure that allows…

Are you planning to adopt serverless architecture? Here are 10 AWS Lambda use cases to get your journey started.

See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.

An OpenVPN with RDS MySql backend deployment that can withstand an AWS AZ crash.

Learn how to create pipelines as code in Jenkins 2.

When it comes to the most popular text editor on Linux systems, some history is hidden in plain sight. In

Take a deep dive into the pros and cons of Amazon's new Aurora Serverless service and find out if it's right for you and your company's needs and budget.

Git is the most powerful version control system coded in the history of humankind. The super-rich feature set of Git makes the code management straightforward.

9 minute read Before 2015, we had an Operations and Performance team. Around this time, we decided to create the Production Engineering department and merge the teams. The department is responsible for building and maintaining common infrastructure that allows…

Mark Jacobs joins Scott Hanselman to discuss how Microsoft's internal enterprise increases compliance and creates a more trusted cloud environment using the Secure DevOps Kit for Azure (AzSK). Learn h

Two years ago, we announced Customer Reliability Engineering (CRE) with the aim to share operational fate with our customers and give them more control over the critical applications they're entrusting to us.

Thanks, as always, to Fred Hebert and Sargun Dhillon for reading a draft of this post and offering some invaluable suggestions.

A detailed explanation with examples of how GitLab made the switch to headless Chrome.

Migrating from a server-based solution to S3 static website resulted in increased performance and decreased costs

Recently I launched my own blog. During that process, I got interested in how I can automate testing the quality of my new blog. I didn't want a heavy duty framework. I didn't want deep tests because the functionality on my blog isn't very verbose.

A basic…

Today, we're open-sourcing Kafka-Kit, a toolset for scaling and recovering Kafka.

Exploring the internals of Kubernetes networking When I was preparing Kubernetes training courses, I found an area that induced a lot of interest, but at the same time, was very difficult to explain—the internals of Kubernetes networking. Everybody wants…

Logging is one of the most powerful tools we have as developers. It’s no accident that when things go wrong in production, one of a…

Microsoft researchers said they’re planning to open-source Open Network Emulator, the system that simulates the entire network that powers the company’s hyperscale cloud platform
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The company has been using it for about a year to test changes made to the…

Learn how to set up OpenFaaS on Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE) with a cost-effective, auto-scaling, multi-stage deployment.