How to setup and operate a fully functional, secure Kubernetes cluster on a cloud provider such as DigitalOcean or Scaleway.

An engaging talk addressing the art of debugging during an outage from the technical challenges and techniques through to the psychological and organizational elements involved. Slides. (52 minutes)

A tool for analyzing your NGINX config files for security flaws and vulnerabilities.

See how Rollbar pairs perfectly with New Relic to give you greater coverage + much more insight into application errors.

“There is no consensus in the industry regarding the definition of DevOps,” says the author before elaborating on one himself.

“We run more than 20 million tests every day using our in-house distributed system.” And here’s how.

A tale of infrastructure evolution at Buzzfeed, the online publisher. Their in-house ‘rig’ system makes 100+ deploys a day practical.

How Microsoft is using git internally, with a specific focus on large repositories.

A globally-distributed relational database service with ACID transactions and SQL semantics. WIRED’s writeup (from Feburary) gives the bigger picture of why it’s a big deal.

A line of thinking that serverless apps may be built by less experienced but less dogmatic developers. (Psst! The latest issue of our new Serverless newsletter is here.)

Quora uses memcached heavily to speed up operations and has just released a new tool called mcinspector for analyzing its memory use.

A home automation startup has run into issues after a seemingly minor change on Google’s Firebase affected how bandwidth was counted.