We've been running [https://blog.openai.com/infrastructure-for-deep-learning/]
Kubernetes [https://kubernetes.io/] for deep learning research for over two
years. While our largest-scale workloads manage bare cloud VMs directly,
Kubernetes provides a fast…

How we host our static websites with two lines of code

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

The short introduction to Helm package manager for Kubernetes. Why you should use it and how you can package your complex Kubernetes applications.

Last week, we faced a network outage at my client's. We tried to gather facts to know more precisely when it started, to help the netops d...

Note — Huge thanks to Jamie Wilkinson and Julius Volz, Google SREs present and past, for reading a draft of this and giving me invaluable…

Step-by-step retrospective and relevant code allowing to replicate this method to migrate legacy / monolithic apps to Docker and…

An updated example of techniques to avoid detection.

In this article, I'll give you a high-level overview about InfluxDB and the TICK stack, a set of open-source projects focused on time series and monitoring.

Some common DevOps practices can turn into bad habits. Nip them in the bud now for greater success in 2018.

Learn how to query and collect key EC2 resource metrics and status checks.

This post in the Home Lab series explains how I extended my stack to multiple servers with Docker Swarm and some of the configuration changes around it.

This blog post explains techniques for development teams who strive for high velocity continuous delivery using Kubernetes and Docker. When we say “high velocity” we mean that every product team can safely ship updates many times a day — deploy instantly…

Participating in the Internet democracy occasionally means that technologies that were once popular lose their utility as newer technologies emerge. SPDY is one such technology. As a result, we're announcing our intention to deprecate the use of SPDY for…

Before getting too far into the topic, let’s first take a quick look at the difference between mutability and immutability. Mutable Immutable Continually updated, patched, and tuned to meet the ong…

Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control theory, has been generating attention for one simple reason: it describes a set of problems that more…

Default URL format for CloudWatch

Understanding systems that are functioning well is great preparation for dealing with the inevitable failures.