How Feature Flags Support Incident Response and Management
Every year I get on some technical kick. These fascinations usually end up being some sort of design pattern or process. In 2020, I’m ..
The What and Why of Kube-Native Environments
Kubernetes is an orchestrator that manages containerized workloads. Given the central role that Kubernetes has assumed in deploying and managing ..
Taking a Security-First Approach to Kubernetes
Traditionally, security was largely a break/fix affair. IT teams deployed tools that helped them detect breaches as they were happening, ..
Building a Quality Platform From The Ground Up
In a world of agile development, testing all the things in a fast-paced development environment is challenging. What to do about it? You want ..
Leveraging Incident Response for Application Quality
Incident response tools are most often used for production applications. But, their benefits can extend far beyond that, well through the entire ..
How To Build A Blockchain In Python
In 2008, an author (or authors) under the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto released a white paper describing a purely peer-to-peer version of electronic ..
Why It Should Be Service, Not Site Reliability
Making sure services, applications and infrastructure are up and running has always been a role in technical organizations. But, as application ..
Kubernetes Logging – Best Practices
Maintenance of any system hinges on understanding what is happening and noticing when its behavior has diverged from the ideal. Kubernetes ..
Kubernetes Service Mesh: A Comparison of Istio, Linkerd and Consul
Cloud-native applications are often architected as a constellation of distributed microservices, which are running in Containers. Increasingly, ..
Getting the Most out of Kubernetes Security Tools
Kubernetes comes with a few security tools built-in, like pod security policies and role-based access control. You might be tempted to assume, ..