In this article, I'll give you a high-level overview about InfluxDB and the TICK stack, a set of open-source projects focused on time series and monitoring.

Some common DevOps practices can turn into bad habits. Nip them in the bud now for greater success in 2018.

Learn how to query and collect key EC2 resource metrics and status checks.

This post in the Home Lab series explains how I extended my stack to multiple servers with Docker Swarm and some of the configuration changes around it.

This blog post explains techniques for development teams who strive for high velocity continuous delivery using Kubernetes and Docker. When we say “high velocity” we mean that every product team can safely ship updates many times a day — deploy instantly…

Participating in the Internet democracy occasionally means that technologies that were once popular lose their utility as newer technologies emerge. SPDY is one such technology. As a result, we're announcing our intention to deprecate the use of SPDY for…

Before getting too far into the topic, let’s first take a quick look at the difference between mutability and immutability. Mutable Immutable Continually updated, patched, and tuned to meet the ong…

Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control theory, has been generating attention for one simple reason: it describes a set of problems that more…

Default URL format for CloudWatch

Understanding systems that are functioning well is great preparation for dealing with the inevitable failures.

One of the challenges of running large scale distributed systems is being able to pinpoint problems. It’s all too common to blame a random component (u...

<span>I</span>‘ve never looked at Kubernetes because Swarm gave me all I needed in terms of Container Orchestration. While being straightforward to use, it shined in a world where Container Orchestrators like Mesos and Kubernetes were difficult to setup.

How edge networks, Kubernetes, serverless and other trends will shape systems engineering and operations.

There is much more needed from a DevOps engineer to successfully deploy the code and bind the two units together successfully.

Useful IT policies. Contribute to lfit/itpol development by creating an account on GitHub.

Most of my work these days is helping organisations figure out how to be more effective, in terms of how quickly they can identify and respond to the needs of their external and internal customers, and how well their response meets those needs. This tends…

With RabbitMQ monitoring, see how your messaging setup affects your system and holds up to demand.

For tracking the performance of your messaging setup, check out these RabbitMQ monitoring tools.