I recently presented a talk at the AWS Community Day in Bangalore. The tweet following the talk became my most popular tweet ever and I…

An updated blog post on getting started with syslog-ng and Elasticsearch 6 on RHEL/CentOS 7.

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This is a brief aside from my ongoing series about avoiding entity services. An interesting dinner conversation led to thoughts that I needed to write down. Amdahl's Law In 1967, Gene Amdahl presented a case against multiprocessing computers. He argued that…

One of our sayings in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is that the goal of your job is to “automate yourself out of the job.” While some may have concerns of being replaced by robots, SRE’s see the value of automating work. It opens up time, removes tedious…

Etsy.com and most of our related services have been hosted in self-managed data centers since the first Etsy site was launched in 2005. Earlier this year, we decided to evaluate migrating everythin…

Migrating was harder than we expected, but the performance and reliability gains were worth it.

With the rise of cloud providers and wider adoption of agile practices, an increasing number of organizations are faced with operating a…

Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services - lirantal/dockly

If you are running workloads in Kubernetes, your site reliability engineering (SRE) and operations (Ops) teams need right kind of tooling to ensure the high-reliability of the Kubernetes cluster and workloads running in it. Here we present a list of 10 open…

Discover various UNIX / Linux scripting tools that add GUI widgets, network sockets and add some spice to your UNIX bash shell scripts.

Learn five keys to creating your next killer CLI using Go. We'll cover lessons learned over 8 months of development from the OpenFaaS project team.

Jenkins Scripted Pipelines and You: Part 1

Inputs, Conditionals and Doing Stuff In Parallel

How to make sure your Cloud is balanced, healthy to your company bottom line and friendly to your staff

One of our sayings in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is that the goal of your job is to “automate yourself out of the job.” While some may have concerns of being replaced by robots, SRE’s see the value of automating work. It opens up time, removes tedious…

Monitoring is critical for a secure, high-performing, resilient, and efficient cloud infrastructure. This blog post summarize...

Web applications are increasingly becoming targets of attacks such as cross-site scripting, SQL injection and application DDoS. Microsoft Web Application Firewall (WAF) and Azure Security Center (A…