NCSC Guidance for secure development and deployment - ukncsc/secure-development-and-deployment

The Docker Version Manager (dvm) is a cross-platform command-line tool that helps you install and switch between Docker clients

Docker containers provides an isolated sandbox for the containerized program to execute. One-shot containers accomplishes a particular task and stops. Long running containers runs for an indefinite…

How to build and use unit tests for distributed systems

I’ve been working on writing up Operability thoughts along with @matthewpskelton recently, and ahead of some upcoming workshops on the topic, we put together a webinar titled “Practical…

In IT service management, how do you stop just putting out fires? Start by seeing job duality: balancing IT work with the communication side. Here's how.

Class materials for a distributed systems lecture series - aphyr/distsys-class

It is worth noting that I am not classically trained in Distributed Systems.  I am mostly self taught via independent study and on the job experience.  I do have a B.S. in Computer Science from Cornell, but focused mostly on graphics and security in my specialization…

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

Terraform is a tool for building and managing infrastructure in an organized way. In this tutorial, you’ll install and use Terraform to create an infrastruct…

When Michael Freedman joined Microsoft’s theoretical research group two decades ago, he was a renowned math genius known for his fundamental research into an obscure field of math called topology.

A long-running narrative about complexity has served as a storyline for many years in the communities that made distributed systems possible. For example, Microsoft recently announced that Azure App Service, a platform for creating Azure-based applications…

Update March 2020: Atlassian acquires Automation for Jira, automation now native in Jira Cloud