If you're a programmer, a systems administrator, or really any type of IT worker, you probably have your favorite go-to IP addresses for troubleshooting.

When embracing a DevOps mindset, does an organization's size matter?

In my previous post, I talked about Knative Serving for rapid deployment and autoscaling of serverless containers. Knative Serving is…

With no official Google Drive Linux client available, it's left to third-party apps, devs services to fill the file-syncing void for FOSS fans. And boy

Transform k8s logs into metrics and visualize them

Back in the bad old days, setting up basic HTTPS with a certificate authority cost as much as several hundred dollars per year, and the process was difficult and error-prone to set up. Now we have Let's Encrypt for free, and the whole thing takes just a few…

The mTLS and authorization features in the Istio service mesh make it easy to secure your microservices-based environment.

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Fire drills are a familiar concept to anyone who has ever worked in an office. Periodically the fire alarm will start to blare and a few…

There is a kubeconfig file behind every working kubectl command.1 This file typically lives at $HOME/.kube/config. Having written kubectx, I’ve interacted with kubeconfigs long enough to write some tips about how to deal with them.

Why?

WePay’s engineering team talks about their new highly available MySQL cluster built with HAProxy, Consul and Orchestrator. It improves upon their previous architecture by reducing any downtime from 30 minutes to 40-60 seconds.

At this point, I have two(+) years of experience with Microservices, and I’m not an expert, but I have some hard-earned knowledge distilled from working with them (and making lots of mistakes…

Helping millions of developers easily build, test, manage, and scale applications of any size - faster than ever before.

The universe of serverless-wielding software architects and Kubernetes cluster operators has started to collide and, yet again, Google is in the driver's seat. In this article we'll wander down the CNCF's Serverless Landscape in chronological order, quickly…

Sharded databases have been receiving lots of attention in recent years, but many don’t have a clear understanding of what they are or the scenarios in which…

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