Automating content delivery in a DevOps world
Craig Adams explores the traditional DevOps pipeline, addresses how to think about CDN automation, and explains how Akamai is baking automation into its CDN.
Operations
The latest ideas, practices, and trends for improving your business through operations.
You scream for microservices orchestration. I scream for batch. We all scream for jobs as code
Joe Goldberg explores jobs as code, which looks at batch application automation from a systems development life cycle perspective.
Fly the airplane
Kristopher Beevers explains how to augment Incident Command with simple tools and processes, such as basic checklists or regular fire drills.
I data scienced monitoring data and so can you
Rob Claire introduces the monitoring tools Pinterest uses and offers real-world examples of problem solving with data monitoring.
Chaos engineering
Building confidence in system behavior through experiments
How to start application tracing
A hands-on demonstration for implementing tracing in modern applications that introduces tracing through the CNCF’s OpenTracing project.
What’s in a transport layer?
Understanding gRPC in the dawn of microservices.
Principles of globally distributed systems
Understand how distributed systems work and how to use them.
Understanding tracing
Five questions for Bryan Liles on the complexities of tracing, recommended tools and skills, and how to learn more about monitoring.
Kubernetes kubectl commands
Learn how to use the kubectl command line to create objects and interact with the Kubernetes API.
Future-proofing application delivery at Yelp
Building and tuning traffic management for large web-scale applications.
Building distributed systems with containers
Five questions for Brendan Burns: How containers and cluster management have changed systems development, and common patterns for building distributed systems.
Management tips for a thriving team
Five questions for VM Brasseur and Deb Nicholson: How to overcome communication challenges and encourage collaborative work when managing globally distributed teams.
Creating better disaster recovery plans
Five questions for Tanya Reilly: How service interdependencies make recovery harder and why it’s a good idea to deliberately and preemptively manage dependencies.
The impact of design at Shopify
Five questions for Cynthia Savard Saucier on how design impacts Shopify’s business outcomes, and tips for improving designer-developer communication.
Building—and scaling—a reliable distributed architecture
Five questions for Joseph Breuer and Robert Reta on managing dependencies, building for adaptability, and managing through change.
The false dichotomy of finders vs fixers
Cliff Crocker shows how intelligent analytics connects the data from "finders" with the actions from "fixers."
Removing engineering friction: Creating an evolutionary culture
Phillip Liu says removing friction for engineers leads to better code and a better understanding of how code works.
Preventing cascading failures in a global network
Dave Andrews shares strategies for addressing cascading failures at various scales and environments.
DevOps and incident management: A recipe for success
David Hayes explains why DevOps is now a requirement for success and he outlines challenges all DevOps teams will face over the next five years.
What we learned moving 65,000 Microsofties to DevOps on the public cloud
Martin Woodward tells the story of transforming Microsoft’s internal engineering systems from a collection of disparate in-house tools to One Engineering System.
Resiliency in a service provider world
Kristopher Beevers asks: What does resiliency mean when service providers are critical components of nearly every application?
Perception and bias and metrics, oh my!
Dawn Parzych shows how understanding assumptions and biases can help your organization.
Internet traffic growth: Why platforms are critical for developers
Corey Scobie explains why the compartmentalization of Internet technology and application development will not sustain our aspirations.