In part 3 in a series on alert fatigue, Community Maintainer Ben Abrams dives deeper into fine-tuning Sensu to reduce alert fatigue. In this article, he walks us through automating triage & remediation with checks hooks & handlers.

In part 4 in this series on alert fatigue, Community Maintainer Ben Abrams covers alert consolidation, which helps you cut through the “white noise” and focus on what's important (especially in the middle of a major incident).

Maybe because my father is a car mechanic (even now at the age of 70), I’m a strong believer in knowing what’s happening under the hood…

It is not just about the speed but also safety.

The first public announcement of VictoriaMetrics — the best remote storage for Prometheus

The English translation of my old Russian article, a lot of thanks to Lena Beniash for helping me with translation.

Consul, developed by HashiCorp, is a service mesh solution with service discovery, configuration, and segmentation functionality. Although…

In the previous post we learned about Stateful Sets by scaling a MongoDB Replica Set. In this post we will be orchaestrating a HA…

Often, there comes a time when you have to choose between managed services versus self-hosted services, especially in the cloud world…

I’ve been a heavy user of Confluence for roughly 8 years. Before that, I was a power user of MediaWiki. And my background is in Computer…

Sarah Wells explains how the Financial Times migrated microservices between container stacks without affecting production users.

Little bits of appreciation can make big differences in maintainers’ lives. Here’s one way you can show appreciation that should take less than five minutes out of your day and just might make someone else’s. 🙌

Notes from the Thursday talks at Velocity Conf

Notes from Fridays talks at Velocity Conf

Lessons learned from writing over 300,000 lines of infrastructure code - Download as a PDF or view online for free

A talk on some of the new features in Docker for building images, and how you can use them to improve developer workflow. Create more maintainable configuration, speed up builds and create optimised images.

Talk at Velocity in London 2018

If you use gRPC in your services, you’ll want to make sure you set a reasonable deadline for your RPC calls, upgrading to gRPC 1.16 as soon as possible is highly recommended. You should also enable client-side keepalive, and adjust the kernel setting for…

gRPC-Web is a JavaScript client library that enables web applications to interact with backend gRPC services using Envoy instead of a…

At Checkly, we run our browser checks on AWS EC2 instances managed by Terraform. When shipping a new version, we don’t want to interrupt our service, so we need zero downtime deployments. Hashicorp has their own write up on zero downtime upgrades, but…

A review the tooling and practices developed used to support Datadog's hyper-growth, as well as a return of experience on how they are deploying and operating Kafka in Kubernetes.

Talk given at the NYC Kafka meetup.