IBM's purchase of Red Hat may be a good strategic fit for IBM, but the payback is anything but guaranteed.

One of the complexities when using Dockerfiles has always been accessing private resources. If you need to access some private repository…

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We have a cloud computing platform called Workers. Unlike essentially every other cloud computing platform I know of, it doesn’t use containers or virtual machines. We believe that is the future of Serverless and cloud computing in general, and I’ll try to…

At Bench, we use Kubernetes on AWS to run our production microservices. Something that we learned along the way is that Kubernetes by…

When you think of the top 100 sites in the world, you think of high-traffic domains and pages coded to perfection. In fact, even the most popular sites in the world have errors hidden behind the scenes that are still visible in your browser’s developer tools.

I’ve sent a message to my family and delegated my open source projects to my friends. With my last tweet sent, I turn off my laptop, phone, and tablet. My Digital Sabbath begins in 10 minutes: no digital devices for the next month.

These are great times for pushing code to production. Thanks to the cloud, micro-services, and investments in CI/CD pipelines, teams that…

Changes are afoot at Zeit Now, my preferred hosting provider for the past year (see previous posts). They have announced Now 2.0, an intriguing new approach to providing auto-scaling immutable …

(This blog started as a tweet thread, and became a blog. It started out as looking at data and why NoSQL is a better fit for serverless…

The open source project Helm represents itself as a package manager for Kubernetes. It does that pretty darn well, having been attached to the project from the earliest days of Kubernetes, and cont…

DevOps is all over the place nowadays. The toolset is exploding. Companies are offering a large variety of products to suit the needs of customers. Looking at Google Trends, the keyword devops has do…

How to build your Docker images within your Kubenetes cluster with Dockerfiles or Cloud Foundry buildpacks. The fifth article in series on Knative.

Doing Continuous Integration is a lot easier if you have the right tools. In our project at a german car manufacturer, we were tasked with developing new services and bringing them to the cloud. We had a centralized Jenkins instance, shared by all the teams…

The concepts and practices of Site Reliability Engineering are changing the way we build and operate our platforms and enabling us to have more meaningful conversations about availability, service-level objectives, and cost. But what are the benefits for…