Jan
20,
2020
Peace through nonviolent communication
Nonviolent communication will help you communicate with your coworkers in a manner that enables productivity and helps you understand how their unmet needs might lead to negative interactions. Successful communication is a huge part of a project’s success – everyone on the team can benefit from NVC. In her session...
Jan
15,
2020
Native Elasticsearch on Kubernetes – Simple with ECK
Not too long ago, it was unheard of to put persistent data on Kubernetes. The wise operator would almost certainly have reached for a comparable cloud service and sacrificed functionality for the sake of simplicity and peace of mind.But over the past few years, Kubernetes has matured and grown into...
Dec
12,
2019
Service Mesh vs. Framework: Resilience in distributed Systems with Istio or Hystrix
The more distributed a software system is designed, the more you should think about resilience. Because of the distribution, calling the involved communication partners can and will often lead to errors. In order to keep the effects of these errors as small as possible, or to avoid them completely, it...
Dec
11,
2019
DevOpsCon Munich 2019 takeaways: Everyone is in Ops now & more
Did you attend DevOpsCon Munich 2019? Perhaps you were there but couldn’t physically attend all of the talks. Well we’ve got you covered. We collected some of the key takeaways from the conference and want to share them with our readers. We learned about the changing role of Ops, how...
Dec
3,
2019
Sustainable Continuous Delivery: Patterns for rapid and reliable Releases
Today we pay close attention to scaling our systems, testing for chaos, and reducing MTTR in production. Yet our delivery pipelines don’t get nearly as much love. In his talk from the DevOpsCon 2019 in Berlin, Manuel Pais presents tried and tested patterns for increasing accelerating delivery of changes in...
Nov
12,
2019
Kubernetes as a multi-cloud operating system
In the future, many companies will try to grow their IT infrastructure with the help of the Cloud or even relocate it completely to the Cloud. Larger companies often request multi-cloud solutions. In terms of serverless frameworks, there are several ways to achieve multi-cloud operation. Using AWS Lambda, a function...
Nov
6,
2019
SysAdmin to SRE: creating Capacity to make tomorrow better than today
DevOps has achieved widespread success. However, that success has been uneven for those who work in Operations. In most enterprises today, it is not uncommon for engineers who come anywhere near Operations to find themselves buried in interruptions, tickets, and repetitive work. Then along comes a new way of working...
Deploy and Tell: Stories About Dockerizing an Application
In her DevOpsCon 2019 session, Gabriella Querales shares her experience working with a Silicon Valley-based company that ran a containerized application monitoring pilot, and gives some insights on the challenges they faced and how they solved them.
Oct
22,
2019
Public Cloud – Interview with Bernd Rederlechner
While in the past the public cloud was seen more as a target for hackers, it is now increasingly gaining momentum. We talked to Bernd Rederlechner, Lead Architect of PU Digital Solutions at T-Systems, about the benefits of the public cloud and how severe the security risks really are today....
Oct
14,
2019
Developed by humans for humans
“We create the UX designs and then that can be developed” – surely, we’ve all heard this or something similar at least once, or perhaps you were the one who said it. In interdisciplinary teams, in which the words “user experience” falls, it is commonly the case that one or...