Status pages have become the end-users window into your team’s operations. Companies with status pages are doing the right thing for their users, building in...

Automation, automation, automation. If Steve Ballmer were doing his developers dance today, instead of in 2001, those are probably the words he would have been...

In 2020, businesses continue to take on digital transformation – moving more toward cloud storage and computing as well as adopting more of a DevOps...

I don’t know how the term “shaving the yak” caught on, but I’m willing to embrace it for all of its weirdness and meaning. We...

How you build your application absolutely impacts the lives of those in charge of supporting it. This isn’t a correlation we generally make, but thinking...

Most discussions about the merits of Docker Swarm vs. Kubernetes focus on large-scale deployments. But, what if you’re running your containerized app on a single...

At first glance, storing Kubernetes secrets seems simple enough. Kubernetes stores them automatically in etcd, a key-value store. And, Kubernetes can be configured to encrypt...

When considering application source code, the manner in which consistency is maintained throughout environments is fairly straightforward. Application code is written, committed to source control,...

Once you’re deep into the Kubernetes ecosystem, Kubernetes becomes as defined by its boundaries as it is by its benefits. Kubernetes is a platform that,...

The software development lifecycle is shrinking. It used to be that new versions of source code would be released every month or so. But now,...