This awesome video is an excellent recap about an SRE/DevOps culture. Enjoy!
extra: https://sre.google/books/
Datadog presentation
Today I will do a presentation on how Leaseplan digital was able to introduce Datadog to monitor an application platform based on kubernetes.
This allowed the platform team to configure monitoring in such a way that the users of the platform do not need to do any extra configuration in order to have visibility over the applications that are running.
More info here
Team topologies
This book talks about how to design teams inside an organisation. This is a very important topic because of Conways law:
Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization’s communication structure.
— Melvin E. Conway
This means that when you design an architecture of a system or when you design a platform you better take into account the communication flows of the company and people involved. The team structure will be an imprint for your product architecture.
This book will give you options on how to structure teams. There are several ways defined in the book, ranging from a collaborative team to platform teams serving self service products. A must read before attempting to scale any teams or organisation!
More info on the team topologies website
Raspberry K8s on Wifi
Everybody installs a Kubernetes cluster on raspberry pi … so why not me … let’s play :)
First of all you’ve to pick your hardware and that’s where you’ve to do some choices. And my choice was to avoid buying a switch because I like it to have less cables and items lying around. Obviously not as reliable but it’s just a game.
Here you can see the difference. This is the only wifi version:
And here is the ethernet version:
The DevOps Handbook
If you are on a DevOps transformation journey this is not doubt a good a read. It will give you the strength and some material to share with your coworkers.
The book remains quite high level (not too deep in the technologies) so it will give you an overview of DevOps practices and why they’re so powerful.
I would recommend the read to engineers but also to managers that want to understand or rollout DevOps practices to improve organisations.
This is also about creating a better workplace for you and your coworkers.
Micro Pipeline Hell
Today I did a nice presentation on continuous delivery applied in a microservices scenario at a tech meetup hosted by Levi9 in Novi Sad in Serbia.
I explained how the choice of microservices architecture can give you a lot of advantages but it also brings along a lot of work as a trade off.
An example would be to configure a continuous integration pipeline for each of your services. A nice solution is to automate the creation of the pipelines. Check the slides if you are interested!
How to take your knowledge of Azure resource manager to the next level!
I used ARM templates for some time now but probably also in a very unstructured way. Until .. I saw this excellent Pluralsight course on ARM templates called Azure Resource Manager Deep Dive
ARM deep dive by James Bannen
If you got some spare time and you are into Azure infrastructure automation I would highly recommend it to you :)
Thanks to James Bannen for creating this excellent course!
My desktop @ Work
My desktop!
Book: Fake Work
This book is really nice. It describes how many people do work that is not actually useful to anyone. People are actually quite smart, even if they are not 100% aware that they are doing fake work they somehow feel it.
Almost nobody wants to do fake work, it is not gratifying that’s why many companies have big turnovers in job positions. The book gives insight and helps defining a strategy to get rid of the wasted time that we spend every day on fake work.
I advise it to anyone, it’s a good read for leaders that want to shape the environments and the culture they live in, and workers that have their part of responsibility in creating the same environment.
My Aikido master told me once: I’ve not created the dojo, everyone each of you has.
Book: The Phoenix project
Just finished reading “The phoenix project“. It’s a quite nice book, that talks about how good practices can make a huge difference in a working place. I would recommend it to anyone who works in IT, Dev or business departments.