Chaos Engineering: the History, Principles, and Practice — What is Chaos Engineering? This post provides a comprehensive overview into the origins of this discipline, its various manifestations, and recommendations for implementing Chaos Engineering in your own systems.

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12 Best Practices for User Account, Auth and Password Management — A post laying out best practices to ensure you have a safe, scalable, usable account authentication system.

Ian Maddox (Google)

A Modern (Re)Introduction to DNS — An attempt to provide a concise, modern, ‘correct introduction’ to DNS and related concepts. Pretty technical, but all worth knowing. “The goal is to be a mini “TCP/IP Illustrated” of DNS.”

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Best Practices for Staging Environments — When you’ve got a new feature to push out, it’s tempting, but risky, to go straight to production. A ‘production lite’ staging environment can help you indulge yourself without affecting end users.

Alice Goldfuss

Behold HTTP/3, Formerly Known as 'HTTP-over-QUIC' — HTTP/3 is the (still) forthcoming new HTTP version that uses QUIC (a multiplexed stream transport over UDP originally designed by Google). More story here.

Daniel Stenberg

E-Commerce at Scale: Inside Shopify's Tech Stack — Shopify provides ecommerce services for over 600K sites - here’s how they keep their system running at over 80K requests per second while running on Ruby on Rails, a system not usually known for its speed, and MySQL.

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Moving Fast and Securing Things at Slack — Ease of deployment and security often have an inverse relationship but it pays to get both right. Slack does this by following a Security Development Lifecycle and has built some tools and processes to manage it smoothly.

Max Feldman

How Netflix Does Failovers in 7 Minutes Flat — Netflix decreased the time it takes to respond to an outage from 45 minutes to seven with no additional cost.

Amjith Ramanujam

Building a Central Logging Service In-House — A look at how a team built their own in-house central logging service to record all key events logged during user sessions, enabling them to track both errors and useful business metrics.

Akhil Labudubariki

GoAccess: A Visual, Real-Time Web Log Analyzer — An open source log analyzer and interactive viewer that runs in the terminal or through the browser. Supports logs from Apache, Nginx, Amazon S3, Elastic Load Balancing, CloudFront, etc.

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GitHub Actions: Workflow Automation on GitHub — Still in beta, as of 2019, Actions takes GitHub into new, ops-style territory by providing definable, automated workflows for deploying and releasing software. It’s billed as “the biggest shift we’ve had in the history of GitHub”.

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Google Releases reCAPTCHA V3: The New Way to Stop Bots — Instead of just showing a CAPTCHA, reCAPTCHA v3 gives incoming visitors a risk score and lets you take custom actions based on that score.

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Minimal Ubuntu: A Tiny Ubuntu Distribution for Containers — “The 29MB Docker image for Minimal Ubuntu 18.04 LTS serves as a highly efficient container starting point, and allows developers to deploy multicloud containerized applications faster.”

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A Collection of Unix Sysadmin Test Questions and Answers — Want to test your Unix sysadmin skills for an interview or just for fun? This collection of questions and answers should keep you entertained.

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Play with Kubernetes: Learn Kubernetes in the Browser — The Play with Kubernetes Classroom is an online, hands-on Kubernetes learning environment that lets you follow a tutorial without installing anything locally.

Mano Marks (Docker)