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

See metrics from all of your apps, tools & services in one place with Datadog’s cloud monitoring as a service solution. Try it for free.

I started this blog to share some of the admin and security projects I work on. Hopefully one of these posts will be the article that you were looking for.

Many years from now, when we’re zooming down the road in our electric, self-driving cars to meet with our robotic personal trainers, historians will be looking back at the 2010s as the Cloud Decade. Sure, some say the underlying principles of cloud computing…

“There is still a lot of heavy-lifting when running containers. AWS Fargate is the starting point for making them truly cloud native“

Centralized logging is often required in large enterprise environments for a number of reasons, ranging from compliance and security to analytics and application-specific needs. I’ve seen that in a multi-account environment, whether the accounts belong to…

While browsing the CNCF Serverless Slack channel recently, I noticed a message; someone needed help writing a function which processes S3 update events. He didn’t want to use AWS Lambda and alternatively was looking for an open-source solution over Kubernetes.…

by Michael Graff and Chris Sanden

Introducing Spectrum: a new Cloudflare feature that brings DDoS protection, load balancing, and content acceleration to any TCP-based protocol.Today we are releasing Spectrum.

The Chrome DevTools provide an amazing set of tools to help you develop on the Web platform. Here are a few tips you might not know yet

The USE Method and `node-exporter` Metrics

Part Zero: Introduction

An overview of the internals of a Kubernetes controller, its essential components and how it works.

Deployments don't have to suck! Identify any issues before they impact the end user. Learn 8 critical items you should monitor during your software deployments such as error rates, page load times, and apdex.