Monitoring can seem quite overwhelming. The most important thing to remember is that perfect should never be the enemy of better. DevOps enables highly iterative improvement within organizations. If you have no monitoring, get something; get anything. Something…

Recently, someone asked me what the difference between NodePorts, LoadBalancers, and Ingress were. They are all different ways to get…

One of the chief benefits of the Kubernetes open source container orchestration engine is how it brings greater reliability and

In this post, I am going to introduce one of the tools which we use here at Tratif for automating software installations. Most of our projects written in Java require a lot of third party services to function (e.g. MySQL, RabbitMQ, Redis). This imposes a…

By Ines Envid, Product Manager, GCP Logging and monitoring are the cornerstones of network and security operations. Whether it’s performa...

Spectrum brings Cloudflare’s security and acceleration to the whole spectrum of TCP ports and protocols. It’s DDoS protection for any box, container or VM that connects to the internet.

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On Tuesday, 13 March 2018, travis-ci.com was non-operational for around 5.5 hours starting at 12:14 UTC. There was a backlog of builds for another 3.5 hours after the system returned to an operatio...

IBM is launching what it calls a “skinny mainframe” for cloud computing. The system is built around IBM z14 mainframe technology, and it features a 19-inch industry standard, single-fra…

Today we open sourced all of the products we have worked on last year, and in this post I want to quickly highlight what are the products…

Elastic is partnering with Google Cloud Platform to enable Elasticsearch and X-Pack functionality, as well as BigQuery and Stackdriver integration.

by Jake Lumetta Follow these practical principles to get well-designed microservices boundaries How to avoid making your microservices too small and tightly coupled Photo by Erol Ahmed [https://unsplash.com/photos/aIYFR0vbADk?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medi…

Background

The move to microservices typically requires a great deal of automation, and automation implies operations. In today's cloudy, agile world, the science of operations is veering towards good DevOps practices. Naturally, automation requires code, and operators…

A new survey from Catchpoint examines the role of SRE and what exactly the position does, looking at the types of organizations, skill sets and organizational cultures in place where SREs work.

Enterprises are figuring out that they likely need different database engines to power different parts of their applications. AWS has figured that out, too

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