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

While architecting cloud native applications, you need to ensure that your system is highly available, performant, scalable, fault tolerant, and has the capability to recover from a disaster scenario. In this article, Samir Behara discusses the options available…

This post covers the implementation of pgreplay-go, a tool to realistically simulate captured Postgres traffic. I'll explain why existing tools didn't fit and explain some challenges in the implementation, focusing on what I learned personally from the process.

This week I'm writing about three things not often associated with testing: logging, monitoring, and alerting.  Perhaps you've taken advanta...

Multi-stage Docker image builds give you small images and fast builds, but only if takes extra steps prevent slowness due to caching problems.

Self-hosted CDN based on Kubernetes. Contribute to ilhaan/kubeCDN development by creating an account on GitHub.

Design and code to deploy a self-hosted content delivery network.

Combining the serverless and container world together

In Kubernetes multi worker node environment, it is not ideal to mount local storage as a volume as we are doing in with docker -v…

What should you ask about Kubernetes security strategy? Kubernetes experts weigh in on 6 questions worth examining

Today we’re announcing the beta of Cloud Run, our new serverless compute platform for containerized apps with portability built-in.

My personal guide.

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