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.

In this session, Balthazar Rouberol discusses how he is using Kafka-Kit and Kubernetes to manage and scale the Kafka clusters that power Datadog's metric pipelines. Gwen Shapira (Confluent.io) also presents on how to deploy Kafka on K8S.

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Uber developed Peloton to help us balance resource use, elastically share resources, and plan for future capacity needs.

An integral part of Facebook’s engineering culture has always been our development work on open source solutions that solve real-world production issues and address key challenges in modern l…

The landing page of the official Meta Open Source website.

Accelerate the DevOps workflow. Build, deploy, and test in production-like environments with one platform.

Gatekeeper - Policy Controller for Kubernetes. Contribute to open-policy-agent/gatekeeper development by creating an account on GitHub.

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…

This comprehensive tutorial explains six good alternatives to du command to find disk space consumed by directories in Linux and Unix.

Why use something bloated when you could use something minimal.