Doing DevOps and doing it at scale are two very different things. Here’s how to push past barriers to wider success.

“Distributed systems have an infinite list of almost impossible failure scenarios”

Yevgeniy Brikman shares key lessons from the “Infrastructure Cookbook” they developed at Gruntwork while creating and maintaining a library of over 300,000 lines of infrastructure code used in production by hundreds of companies. Topics include how to design…

A Practitioner's Guide to System Dashboard Design Part 1: Structure and Layout.

A Practitioner's Guide to System Dashboard Design Part 2: Presentation And Accessibility.

A Practitioner's Guide to System Dashboard Design Part 3: What Charts To Use.

A Practitioner's Guide to System Dashboard Design Part 4: Context Improvement.

Engineering, DevOps & Cloud Computing

Learning to look at production incidents from a different perspective

If you’ve read my previous post around ONZO’s engineering manifesto you will get a sense that we are proud of both our team culture and…

Inspired by the recent discussions about using swarming for incident management, linking these to triage and Cynefin’s disorder domain.

A collection of interesting and useful git guides for you to bookmark

Chaos Engineering is the discipline of experimenting on a distributed system in order to build confidence in the system’s capability to…

What a Terraform workflow with Vaulted looks like

Originally published by Liron Tal at www.loomsystems.com on January 26, 2017.

Semaphore sponsored this post, which has been brought to you by the Semaphore CI/CD platform. Google has launched Cloud Run, a new solution for running serverless applications based on Docker containers, this week at its at its Cloud Next ’19 conference.…

In this post I'll take a detailed first look at how to use knative build to provide Docker images for your OpenFaaS functions on Kubernetes.

In this blog, we’ll explain how to set up the metrics endpoint, how to configure Prometheus to scrape it and offer guidance on graphing and alerting the data.

Hardening SSH with 2fa. GitHub Gist: instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

After 18 previous releases, the team behind OpenStack has released a number of new features in their 19th version, Stein. See what the new release holds here.

The Trade Desk recently moved from an old monitoring system based on Nagios, Graphite, and a number of homegrown pieces of software, to something more standard, based on Prometheus. SRE Patrick O’Brien talked about the lessons they learned along the way.