If you’re a software engineer working anywhere near backend systems, the term "service mesh" has probably infiltrated your consciousness sometime over the past few years. In this guide, William is going to attempt to provide an honest, deep, engineer-focused guide to the service mesh, covering not just the what but also the why and the why now, and attempting to describe why he thinks this particular technology has attracted such a crazy level of hype. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://buoyant.io/service-mesh-manifesto/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/stackrox/kube-linter
If you’re a software engineer working anywhere near backend systems, the term "service mesh" has probably infiltrated your consciousness sometime over the past few years. In this guide, William is going to attempt to provide an honest, deep, engineer-focused guide to the service mesh, covering not just the what but also the why and the why now, and attempting to describe why he thinks this particular technology has attracted such a crazy level of hype. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://buoyant.io/service-mesh-manifesto/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/stackrox/kube-linter
If you’re a software engineer working anywhere near backend systems, the term "service mesh" has probably infiltrated your consciousness sometime over the past few years. In this guide, William is going to attempt to provide an honest, deep, engineer-focused guide to the service mesh, covering not just the what but also the why and the why now, and attempting to describe why he thinks this particular technology has attracted such a crazy level of hype. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://buoyant.io/service-mesh-manifesto/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/stackrox/kube-linter
The responsibilities of an SRE role are loosely identified. But in general, focus on reliability (it’s in the name) and incident response. The article featured in this episode walks us through the responsibilities of an SRE engineer. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://rootly.com/blog/what-is-an-sre Tool of the Day: https://github.com/IuryAlves/kubectl-ssh
Here’s the result of analyzing 30 job postings for SRE from major companies like Google, Twitter, Slack, and more. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://spike.sh/blog/sre-role-2021-analysed-30-job-postings/ Tool of the Day: https://githubprofile.com/
The justification of introducing a new programming language, framework, tool, or any piece of software is not an easy task let alone introducing an infrastructure upgrade. This article discusses how to justify an infrastructure upgrade to the business managers. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/10/29/how-to-justify-infrastructure-replacement-to-your-manager/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/rikatz/kubepug
"Developer self-service is a fundamental step every engineering team needs to take to reach true DevOps, true “you build it, you run it”. Often, however, teams get self-service spectacularly wrong. This article will walk through some real-life examples and discuss how you should think about striking the right balance between golden cages and golden paths." If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://humanitec.com/blog/what-developer-self-service-shouldnt-look-like Tool of the Day: https://cuelang.org/
"Developer self-service is a fundamental step every engineering team needs to take to reach true DevOps, true “you build it, you run it”. Often, however, teams get self-service spectacularly wrong. This article will walk through some real-life examples and discuss how you should think about striking the right balance between golden cages and golden paths." If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://humanitec.com/blog/what-developer-self-service-shouldnt-look-like Tool of the Day: https://cuelang.org/
We see teams fall into a few common traps with SLOs, SLIs, and SLAs, particularly when they’re just starting out. The article defines these three acronyms and shows you how to avoid mistakes. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://www.cortex.io/post/the-top-3-mistakes-companies-make-with-slos-slas-and-slis Tool of the Day: https://github.com/ahmetb/kubectl-tree
No matter how good your tooling is, how experienced you are, or how much you've prepared, incidents can still be hard. In this article, the author opens up a list of improvements by the team. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://incident.io/blog/the-things-we-find-hardest-in-incident-response Tool of the Day: https://github.com/codesenberg/bombardier
The Accelerate State of DevOps 2021 Report by Google was released. This article discusses four key takeaways for SREs. If you are looking for software and cloud development services and training, check out softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, migrating existing systems to the cloud, or mentoring and training individuals and teams, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://rootly.com/blog/google-s-state-of-devops-2021-report-what-sres-need-to-know Tool of the Day: https://github.com/itaysk/kubectl-neat
Microservices become the de-facto of modern architecture. But it's tricky to drive ownership in such architecture. The article featured in this episode talks about driving ownership in the microservices world. If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://www.cortex.io/post/how-to-drive-ownership-in-microservices-608f4ed42be94de59553581e99032537 Tool of the Day: https://github.com/bitnami-labs/sealed-secrets
Downtime is not fun, and certainly costly; both to the business and reputation of a company or organization. APIs are one of the top reasons for downtime, and in this episode, the article discusses the cost of API downtime and how to mitigate some of the risks associated with it. If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://konghq.com/blog/downtime-cost/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/gautamkrishnar/nothing-private
The article defines SRE, why do we need it and why is it important? How it works with DevOps; laying out the principles of SRE, and finally into the best practices of SRE. If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://www.infracloud.io/blogs/sre-best-practices/ Tool of the Day: https://kudo.dev/
"Service meshes like Linkerd and Istio are tools for adding observability, security, and reliability features to applications by inserting them at the platform layer rather than the application layer. While initially obscure, the service mesh is rapidly becoming a standard part of the cloud native stack, especially for Kubernetes adopters." If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://buoyant.io/what-is-a-service-mesh Tool of the Day: https://keda.sh/
Cloud-native is an approach to build and run applications leveraging the cloud benefits such as scalability, agility, and cost optimization. In this article, Garen lays out the major steps for succeeding in the migration to the cloud. If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://konghq.com/blog/cloud-native-infrastructure/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/kubernetes-sigs/krew
Andrew’s article was comprehensive on the subject covering the concept, the principles, the role of Infrastructure as Code in GitOps, and the benefits of GitOps. I’m an advocate of the declarative system changes approach vs the imperative one, so this is what I’m already sold on. And the rest of the principles sounded like an extension to that idea which makes sense. If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://www.cncf.io/blog/2021/09/28/gitops-101-whats-it-all-about/ Tool of the Day: https://github.com/asobti/kube-monkey ArgoCD: https://argo-cd.readthedocs.io/en/stable/ Flux: https://github.com/fluxcd/flux
This episode is an introductory-level article to SRE, including how does SRE work, the benefits of SRE, and how does SRE implement the DevOps philosophy rather than being a competing practice. If you’re considering migrating to the cloud, and you would like to get a consultation on that, reach out to us on softwarible.com. We help customers in their software and cloud journey. Whether it’s taking software from ideas to complete solutions, or migrating existing systems to the cloud, we make it work for your needs. Article: https://www.cortex.io/post/what-is-sre-site-reliability-engineering Tool of the Day": https://github.com/nicolaka/netshoot