A collection of modern/faster/saner alternatives to common unix commands.

The Engineering Career Framework is your source for how to achieve impact for your role and team and how to grow in your engineering career. For managers, it can help you set expectations with your teams and hold them accountable for their work.

Yet another remote desktop software, written in Rust. Works out of the box, no configuration required. Great alternative to TeamViewer and AnyDesk! You have full control of your data, with no concerns about security. You can use our rendezvous/relay server, set up your own, or write your own rendezvous/relay server.

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.