How many times in the software industry have you heard developers fight over which programming language is better? How many times have you heard about that one pattern that will fix all of our problems moving forward? We as an industry are very tribal when…

The Database: the final frontier in the DevOps journey. Losing your company’s data would suck, but hand-crafted, artisanal database servers also sucks. What do you do? This episode’s guest is Silvia Botros, Principal DBA at SendGrid, who joins Mike to talk…

Container orchestration tools like Kubernetes are revolutionizing the way applications are being developed and deployed. With the rise of the microservices architecture and decoupling of infrastructure from application logic from the developer’s point of…

There are some concepts and principles in ITIL that people working for startups might find useful — both for product management and for…

TECH BLOG

These conferences will help you keep up-to-date on the latest DevOps, cloud, and container management practices, and build a network of fellow practitioners.

I have been following distributed tracing technologies – Zipkin, OpenTracing, Jaeger, and others – for several years, without deeply trialing with any of them. Just prior to the holiday…

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The web is moving to HTTPS, preventing network attackers from observing or
injecting page contents. But HTTPS needs TLS certificates, and while deployment
is increasingly a solved issue thanks to the ACME protocol and Let's Encrypt…

Docker is containerization platform.

Introduction

In the past 11 years, I’ve heard many reasons why some companies can’t or should not have anything to do with Site Reliability Engineering…

Not long after recently taking a job at Splunk, a co-worker (Hi Tameem!) hit me up over Slack and asked about one of my Kubernetes metrics…

Kubernetes is a container orchestration system from Google and has emerged as the platform of choice for deploying cloud-native…

Deploying changes to the production database is really risky. It is enough to forget about one single simple detail and the migration will…

DevOps Beyond the Practices and the Tools

Recently I, along with my team at Evolute, walked through the doors of a Fortune 5 company with a single goal — move an application over…

Docker is a platform for developers and system admins to develop, deploy and run applications with in containers. Before going deep lets…