In-depth & opinionated articles on Software Engineering and SRE
In our previous post on Infrastructure as Code, we covered the theoretical aspects of IaC, including its benefits, common tooling, and best-practices. Now, let's put that knowledge into practice by building and deploying our application's infrastructure, along with a managed database and complete monitoring stack. All deployed and managed by DigitalOcean. Week 5: What is Infrastructure as Code...
Hey there, tech enthusiasts! 👋 Manual infrastructure configuration and management can eat up countless hours of your time. Having to manually deploy containers, databases, load balancers and other pieces of infrastructure, finely tuning them, and having to manage it all for possibly multiple environments can be a nightmare and clearly does not scale well. That's what Infrastructure as Code (IaC) aims...
Hey there, reliability champions! 👋 Your incident management strategy can make or break your organization's reliability goals. As SRE and DevOps teams manages increasingly complex systems, effective incident management becomes crucial for maintaining service reliability and customer satisfaction. You need a structured approach that combines monitoring, automation, and proven response strategies to handle incidents efficiently. This post build upon the previous...
Hey there, reliability champions! 👋 This week, giving continuation to our previous post on Monitoring Fundamentals, I'm going to introduce you to one of the most powerful tools in an SRE's belt: Service Level Objectives. If you haven't read last week's post, be sure to check it out here: Week 2: Monitoring FundamentalsLearn monitoring fundamentals:...
In our previous post on Monitoring Fundamentals, we covered the theoretical aspects of monitoring, including the Four Golden Signals and the importance of metrics and alerting in maintaining reliable systems. Now, let's put that knowledge into practice by building and deploying a complete monitoring stack. Introduction This guide builds upon our existing repository used throughout the "52 Weeks of...
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