The top indicator of a successful team isn't tenure, seniority or salary levels. It's psychological safety. Here's how to build it into your organization.

I used to dread setting up email automation and email campaigns.

Today we are excited to announce the public availability of HashiCorp Consul 1.0. Consul is a tool for service discovery and runtime configuration for distributed applications and infrastructure. Consul joins Vagrant and Packer as the third HashiCorp product…

Argo workflows create pods and deployments on Kubernetes. When running on AWS, we use EBS for volumes. AWS provides some basic volume…

Root cause analysis is no longer acceptable. Simply looking for the root cause of an incident will not help you accurately understand your system failures. That's why teams more and more prefer the term

I recently spoke at ServerlessConf NYC on Managing Serverless Development. The slides are here (enjoy the cat pictures!):

Tips for developing and maintaining staging environments that will help you build more stable software systems.

As part of a two-day microservices workshop I’m putting together, I’ve been thinking a lot about how to explain monolith-application decomposition and what a transition to microservices might look like. This is a small subset of that material, but I want…

Let’s dive right in! In the previous post (part I) we set up the context for this blog. Basically, as we introduce a strategy to bring microservices to our architecture, we cannot and should not disrupt the current request flows. Our “monolith” applications…

How we built Condé Nast's new deployment platform for NodeJS, Java, and Python using Docker containers, Marathon, and Mesos.

How to avoid security debt with early AWS design patterns.

I doubt there has ever been a time when software architecture was seen as a raging success. The “three-tier architecture” of the web has held up extremely well and is an excellent place for many people to start. The “12 Factor App” approach has encouraged…

Kubernetes provides a rich set of both primitives (e.g. pods) and higher-level constructs (e.g. deployments) you can use to run your…

By Quan To, Product Manager Deploying open-source solutions in the cloud usually means a lot of work keeping up-to-date with security hotf...

In this blog post, we will set up a small CrateDB cluster with Docker and go through some useful Docker commands that let us take a look at performance.