DevOps Articles

On Call? Here’s How to Stay Healthy While Carrying the Pager

PagerDuty sponsored this post.  Hannah Culver Hannah is a solutions marketer at PagerDuty interested in how real-time urgent work plays out across all industries in this digital era. Being on call can be challenging. If you’ve been woken up at 2 a.m.

3 Tier Architecture on AWS using EC2 or Serverless

In this post we are going to look at a typical highly available 3 tier architecture implemented on AWS. We will look into compute options, load balancing, a few AWS database services and finally see how we can iteratively transition to serverless architecture.

Empowering Pro and Citizen Developers

When I was the CISO years ago, we had a talented team build the incident management system for our new CIRT. The team built intake forms, interfaces with some of our tools and the workflow to hold it all together.

High Priorities

How Can You Tell If Your On-Call System Is Broken?

As the old adage goes, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. But when you’re dealing with people and processes, you don’t know things are working until you ask — sometimes, repeatedly.

Calico Enterprise 3.9 Brings Live Packet Troubleshooting

I’ve been recommending Calico Open Source, for container networking and security not long after it rolled out about six years ago.

Self-Replicating Programs? At Play in the Wild World of Quines

“Talk about software development is dominated by practical considerations,” developer/podcaster Adam Gordon Bell told me Friday in an email. But programming is also an act of creativity, and there’s also a real value in the way that programmers play.

This Week in Programming: Go’s New Code of Conduct Arrives with a High Prof

The Go programming language community got an update to its code of conduct (CoC) this week, which seems to have coincided with the permanent ban of Peter Bourgon, a prominent and prolific Go contributor and community member, from all Golang community spaces.

AWS Developer Essentials: The ACG Hands-on Labs playlist

This post highlights hands-on labs that will help you get real-life experience building up AWS developer skills. Hands. They’re the best thing out there for making origami or opening a jar of pickles. But they also come in handy when it comes to learning cloud. How? With ACG’s Hands-on Labs.