TL;DR I get upset when I find Linux servers that are not setup well. This aims to fix that.

Litestream is a standalone streaming replication tool for SQLite. It runs as a background process and safely replicates changes incrementally to another file or S3. Litestream only communicates with SQLite through the SQLite API so it will not corrupt your database.

Prometheus has emerged as the de-facto open source standard for monitoring Kubernetes implementations. In this tutorial, Kristijan Mitevski shows how infrastructure monitoring can be done using kube-prometheus operator. The blog also covers how the Prometheus Alertmanager cluster can be used to route alerts to Slack using webhooks.

Sleep better, have fun, & create value by better managing your pre-releases, releases, & monitoring

First M8 is an Electron-based application built to make querying Prometheus instances much more accessable and approachable to those new to Dev Ops or seasoned veterans who want a more intuitive interface when monitoring and scraping data.

How do reliability costs stack up? Where do they come from?

The Twelve-Factor App Methodology has been around for a decade now. But how relevant and important are these guidelines today? Here, we examine just how well they’ve held up in addressing architectural, deployment, and operational concerns in building software at scale.

TL;DR: In this article, you will learn why Kubernetes uses etcd as a database by building (and breaking) a 3-node etcd cluster.

The summary:
- Server Stuff - 9625€/month
- Development/Product/Devops - 1370€/month
- Marketing - 4890€/month
- Customer Success - 2881€/month
- All Company Tools - 2732€/month
- Admin/Finance/Team - 1303€/month
- Total = 22801€/month

If you like the interface of HTTPie but miss the features of curl, curlie is what you are searching for. Curlie is a frontend to curl that adds the ease of use of httpie, without compromising on features and performance. All curl options are exposed with syntax sugar and output formatting inspired from httpie.

1. The network is reliable.
2. Latency is zero.
3. Bandwidth is infinite.
4. The network is secure.
5. Topology doesn't change.
6. There is one administrator.
7. Transport cost is zero.
8. The network is homogeneous.

- Chaos engineering
- Monitoring and alerting
- Observability
- Paging tools
- SLO management
- Infrastructure-as-Code (and everything-as-code)
- Automated incident response