In this article, “remote development environments” refer to AWS EC2 instances where engineers make code changes and can see a running Slack application with those changes. For years, engineers at Slack isolated and tested their changes by running microcosms…

This week, I got to hang out with my colleagues in Austin, TX, for the PlanetScale Marketing Summit, which was an absolute blast.

Platforms are all the rage. But all too often the point of them gets missed, and they become silos of operations and tools, missing the biggest point—the people who use them. In this talk, I’ll explore the things that architects, operations folks, and platform…

Fallacies of distributed systems are a set of assertions made by L Peter Deutsch and others at Sun Microsystems describing false assumptions that programmers new to distributed applications invariably make.

Let’s look at three mistakes I’ve made during those stressful moments during the beginning of an incident — and discuss how you can avoid making them.

As companies put more data in S3 it becomes a larger and more lucrative target for bad actors. Cybersecurity provider SonicWall reported recorded 1,748 ransomware attempts per customer through during the first three quarters of 2021 and another report from…

Learn how to use eBPF to create an HTTP protocol tracer.

Introducing a new Choria tool called App Builder, read more at https://choria-io.github.io/appbuilder/

Bundle, transpile, install and run JavaScript & TypeScript
projects – all in Bun. Bun is a new JavaScript runtime with
a native bundler, transpiler, task runner and npm client built-in.

Incredibly fast JavaScript runtime, bundler, test runner, and package manager – all in one - oven-sh/bun

Salus is a general purpose, enterprise-proven, build-time SBOM generator. It works across platforms including Windows, Linux, and Mac, and uses the standard Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) format. 

The SBOM tool is a highly scalable and enterprise ready tool to create SPDX 2.2 compatible SBOMs for any variety of artifacts. - microsoft/sbom-tool

Open specification for defining and expressing service level objectives (SLO) - OpenSLO/OpenSLO

Read about PostgreSQL log file format, location, log levels, and more. Best practices on how to enable query logging for faster database troubleshooting.

Learn how database indexes work under the hood and how they can be used to speed up queries

My beef with Git and a search for viable alternatives

Monitorama is a conference that focuses on Observability, Monitoring, Metrics, Logs, Traces, Dashboards, Incident Management, and just…