Collection doesn’t equal detection. When your eyeballs are pulsing from the stress of looking at multiple screens, logs, performance metrics, and messages of …
George Romero’s zombie classic, Dawn of the Dead, is the perfect analogy for the DevOps experience. Your cluster of services is like your …
It’s always in the early dawn hours – an SMS alert on your phone forces you to drag up your eyelids and look …
We once asked whether it was possible to remain both incompetent and in business. We concluded that while incompetency is not a desirable …
It was a dark and stormy night. Not really, of course; it was warm and pleasantly mild (the weather never seems to co-operate …
Migrations carry a setup cost and engineers don’t work for free. Even under the most ideal conditions, it’s possible moving data between web …
If there’s no customer, there’s no job. In a competitive marketplace, every site element matters from the functionality of your service to your …
A hosted status page gives you the peace of mind that users can always answer one simple question: is it up or down. …
A website performance audit is a full analysis of your marketing, usability, and search ranking. Audits are no sunny afternoon picnic. For your …
There’s an old proverb; an inch of time is an inch of gold but you can’t buy that inch of time with an …
Pop quiz, hotshot. How much does it cost to build a self-hosted Kubernetes cluster? Quick, no conferring. If you thought the answer was …
You manage one of the world’s largest messaging platforms. It’s the middle of the afternoon and you are feeling confidence set in. Your …