On this blog from very early on, we have advocated the concept of service mesh. In fact, our post a sidecar for your service mesh is one of the most viewed posts this year. When Buoyant announced the Conduit - their next-generation lightweight service mesh…

“Action w/o orchestration is burn out; orchestration w/o action is management” ― Orrin Woodward

Online payment processing for internet businesses. Stripe is a suite of payment APIs that powers commerce for businesses of all sizes.

A pure Unix shell script ACME client for SSL / TLS certificate automation - acmesh-official/acme.sh

Learn how to identify and track key PostgreSQL performance metrics in this monitoring guide.

Learn how to query and collect key PostgreSQL activity metrics.

kubeadm-centos7-bare-metal - Guide covering how to create a bare metal Kubernetes cluster using kubeadm and Centos 7

Deconstructing containers and examples to better understand the technology

This is a guest post to the Sensu Blog by Michael Eves, member to the Sensu community. He offered to share his experience as a user in his…

Developers produced some really great resources for each other in 2017. After 8+ years reading and curating developer content, I thought it was about time that I compile an end-of-year list with the scores of resource links that I share on Twitter and Reddit…

Learn which DevOps events are must-attend and which might be worth considering.

In the first post of this series I described the network that enables pods to connect to each other across nodes in a kubernetes cluster…

tl;dr: Having swap is a reasonably important part of a well functioning system. Without it, sane memory management becomes harder to achieve.

I recently presented a talk at the AWS Community Day in Bangalore. The tweet following the talk became my most popular tweet ever and I…

An updated blog post on getting started with syslog-ng and Elasticsearch 6 on RHEL/CentOS 7.

This is a brief aside from my ongoing series about avoiding entity services. An interesting dinner conversation led to thoughts that I needed to write down. Amdahl's Law In 1967, Gene Amdahl presented a case against multiprocessing computers. He argued that…

One of our sayings in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) is that the goal of your job is to “automate yourself out of the job.” While some may have concerns of being replaced by robots, SRE’s see the value of automating work. It opens up time, removes tedious…

Migrating was harder than we expected, but the performance and reliability gains were worth it.

Author’s disclosure: I’m currently a Sr. Platform Architect at Pivotal, however I’ve written this article almost a whole year before…