Adopting Kubernetes is not just about installing a cluster. Getting a production cluster is much bigger than that. — Kubernetes has become the platform of choice for many enterprises looking to deploy a DevOps platform. Kubernetes is popular because it makes managing and operating applications simple while offering great stability even when dealing with large-scale deployment of hundreds of different services.

A short story about DevOps evolution — DevOps meant Dev and Ops collaboration, but they removed Ops from the equation instead — These days, we have such a hard time defining DevOps because the problem it initially solves is long gone. For some recent companies, the problem never actually existed! They are doing everything correctly, but instead, the software engineering landscape has evolved so fast that the gap has been filled by…

Kubernetes is among the most widely used container orchestration tools today. Kubernetes itself is an application that provides a framework and tools to manage, deploy, and scale container workload. Kubernetes essentially leverages servers either on-premise or in the Cloud and manages our application. But we need a way to manage…

Say goodbye to generic thumbnails: Crafting visuals for technical blogs — When I browse articles on Medium.com or other platforms, I know most of the thumbnails probably come from Unsplash or have been generated by one of our favourite AI friends. I know because that’s exactly what I have been doing so far. Medium’s seamless integration of Unsplash has made it…

Using PlantUML and Excalidraw — Creating diagrams as code is the best way to ensure your diagrams are easy to maintain and keep up to date. Using code to create diagrams, you can go back in time and see how your infrastructure or ideas evolved, make modifications on the fly, and keep your diagrams consistent. …

If you are a developer that is looking to learn more about DevOps tooling, or if you are simply looking for a new language to focus on in 2023, then look no further than Golang. Go has been steadily gaining popularity among developers over the past few years, and there…

In the last newsletter, I briefly covered the Alert threshold topic based on what I learnt from writing Static vs Dynamic thresholds. I realise that the crux of the issue with using dynamic thresholds was the lack of expertise in anomaly detection. The Anomaly detection is not limited to Alerts…

This time I am sharing some new insight on one of my favourite topics Diagram as Code. The release of Gardener, which I shared in the previous newsletter, is the main reason I wanted to bring this subject up. Gardener is a CLI that turns PlantUML files reference in Markdown…

DevSecOps is a term that has been around for a few years now, but what does it actually mean? The concept is simple adding Security to the DevOps methodology. But in practice, DevSecOps is more complicated to implement than it may seem; the concept is still immature and requires refinement…