From a talk at All Day DevOps 2018 In this talk, we explore five practical, tried-and-tested, real world, team-focused techniques for improving operability wit…

The Story Bigbasket started moving some of the core components to Microservices and wanted to give Istio v0.8.0 a go as it gives you TelemetrySingle common load balancer for all the services which …

Availability, Latency and Cost: Withstanding Regional Outages @aaronblohowiak aaronb@netflix.com

Securing your Kubernetes cluster is one thing, keeping it secure is a continuous uphill struggle. However, with the introduction of new…

This article is part of Remix’s series on the software engineering problems we face. In this installment, Remix Engineer and Co-founder…

A complete and comprehensive guide to learn about, set up, and deploy Chaos Monkey and other similar tools for creating chaos. Download the whole guide.

Serverless computing is all the rage at the moment, and why wouldn’t it be? The idea of deploying code without having to worry about anything like servers, o...

Let's look at the pitfalls of writing in-house ops tools, the circumstances that justify it, and how to do it better.

ABC as in Always Be Controlling—yeah I know, I lifted the ABC moniker from the ’92 movie Glengarry Glen Ross’ character Blake —and with…

Check out how architecture of your app affects its security and how to enable security with Kubernetes.

Take a look at the features and advantages of available continuous integration tools for DevOps, like Jenkins and GitLab, to choose the right one for you.

Once upon a time, a group of people disconnected from each other struck a common awareness of making things better. They observed their…

Often, there comes a time when you have to choose between managed services versus self-hosted services, especially in the cloud world…

Attending various conferences helps make new connections, learn of the latest trends and successful business cases. Here’s a list of…

It is not just about the speed but also safety.

In the majority of Spaceport projects, we have to design, deploy and maintain the underlying IT infrastructure for a certain product or…

This blog provides an overview of sharding in MongoDB and how it can be used concurrently with other methods to achieve high availability.

Internet vigilante claims he patched over 100,000 MikroTik routers already.

This article is adapted from my new Pluralsight course, Automating AWS Operations with the AWS CLI.

Seccomp is a useful feature provided by the Linux kernel (since 2.6.12) and is used to control the syscalls made by a process. Seccomp has been...