Containers have been around in Linux for years. It a concept where one or more processes are isolated from the rest of the system. …

With cloud-native applications, there’s always a chance that something could interrupt your services. Maybe a wire gets unplugged and that brings down your server or one of your services loses network connections that you depend on. These are issues your system doesn’t typically account for in code or infrastructure. You…

Many engineering teams are making the switch to a DevOps culture. This has a lot to do with the way the software development cycle has changed over the years. …

DevOps is supposed to help streamline the process of taking code changes and getting them to production for users to enjoy. But what exactly does it mean for the process to be “streamlined”? One way to answer this is to start measuring metrics. Why metrics are important to track Metrics give us a way to make…

At some point we’ve all said the words, “But it works on my machine.” It usually happens during testing or when you’re trying to get a new project set up. Sometimes it happens when you pull down changes from an updated branch. Every machine has different underlying states depending on…

Intro When we talk about the way systems or software behave, it’s easy to forget that there are actually people behind them. Everything we interact with online is thought of, built, and maintained by other people like you. There are project managers, software developers, DevOps engineers, designers, and many more important…

When you start working on large scale enterprise systems, handling releases can become complex. You’ll have to think about your front-end, microservices, third-party services, and other services. …

In most DevOps settings you’ll find that there are multiple environments in the pipeline. You might have conditions that change the environment based on which branch was merged or when a branch is tagged for release. There are a number of reasons you want to have more than just a…

Cybersecurity is a big concern for many companies. With data breaches happening more and more as attacks increase in sophistication, teams are looking at all of the options they have to prevent them. …