A misconfigured AWS S3 bucket belonging to Medcall Healthcare Advisors exposed sensitive patient records as well as confidential doctor-patient audio discussions. For some reason, the story about the misconfigured AWS S3 bucket keeps repeating itself. Verizon…

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There is a lot of discussion lately about how SRE fits into or competes with or whatever-s with DevOps.  I’m scheduled to speak on a “SRE vs DevOps Smackdown” panel today here at …

SLO BURN Jamie Wilkinson @jaqx0r Velocity, October 2018 Hello people of Velocity! My name is Jamie Wilkinson, and I’m an SRE at Google in Sydney. This is a talk about being on call, about operational overload, and how to overcome it. A few years ago I was…

Lessons learn’t on why well architected monoliths are okay at a DevOps Days London Open Space

Pester is a fantastic tool to test and monitor the status of your infrastructure. There are several libraries which leverage this directly (e.g. SQLChecks, DBAChecks, Operation Validation Framework), and a growing set of resources discussing how to leverage…

I love big cities, I have lived mainly in big cities all through my life until recently. Some people even say I can tolerate large…

Updating server software is all well and good. But if a malicious hacker gets into the data center, there will be hell to pay. Experienced sysadmins and security experts offer advice on how to lock out intruders from your server hardware and control physical…

This is the first in a three part series on sinkholing, targeted attacks, and how to defend your platform. As our user base (and our popularity...

Serverless applications and cloud functions often need to communicate with an upstream API or service. This post describes common patterns and approaches for managing secrets in serverless such as encrypted environment variables, IAM, and Google Cloud Storage.

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StateService is a state machine as a service we are open-sourcing for use by engineering and ops teams to automate deployments and decrease recovery time.

StateService is a state-machine-as-a-service. Contribute to facebookarchive/StateService development by creating an account on GitHub.

Time and again, Amazon Web Services (AWS) practitioners recommend to have the right combination of AWS NACLs (Network Access Control Lists…

I often receive questions on this topic, mostly because I don’t really have many certifications myself.

For Web Devs Who Copy-Paste Nginx Configurations But Want to Know What They’re Copying

There are many reasons to consider a Serverless / Lambda-based architecture for your next project: scalability, low maintenance cost…

How's your DevOps initiative really going? Find out with open source tools.

The perennial question of homo sapiens is, 'How did we get here?' Today we're going to take a crack at answering that: where 'here' is defined as 'high availability for web services'.