SRE NEWSLETTER

Issue #27 // May 14, 2021

Service-Oriented vs. Monolith
// p99th.substack.com
Monolithic designs still have their use and space, especially at an early stage of an idea or a product. The advantages of service-oriented architecture on your organizational scale is not something to overlook.
Docker can slow down your code and distort your benchmarks
// pythonspeed.com
Sometimes, running under Docker can actually slow down your code and distort your performance measurements. Let’s see why, and some workarounds.
Vamp is joining CircleCI
// blog.vamp.io
The current Vamp entity and entire team will become the new Dutch CircleCI entity. This new unified platform will provide a full end-to-end experience for developers, engineers, DevOps team, and business stakeholders.
Top Ten Git Tips & Tricks
// honeybadger.io
These tips and tricks will increase your efficiency and productivity as a developer. It will help you spend more time coding and less time trying to decide whether to git merge or git rebase.
President Signs Executive to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity
// whitehouse.gov
This Executive Order makes a significant contribution toward modernizing cybersecurity defenses by protecting federal networks, improving information-sharing between the U.S. government and the private sector on cyber issues, and strengthening the United States’ ability to respond to incidents when they occur.
GitOps Con 2021
// youtube.com
Videos of this year's GitOps Con sessions.
The Next Step after DevOps and GitOps Is Cloud Engineering
// thenewstack.io
If we going to treat infrastructure as code, shouldn’t infrastructure engineers have access to the same tools that make software engineers productive and even the same languages?
What Chaos Engineering Is (and Isn’t)
// verica.io
The Principles define the discipline so that we know when we are doing Chaos Engineering, how to do it, and how to do it well. The more common definition today for Chaos Engineering is “The facilitation of experiments to uncover systemic weaknesses.”
Resiliency and Disaster Recovery with Kafka
// tech.ebayinc.com
There are several possibilities to run Kafka in a multi-region setup to share data across regions. Each of those, however, has consequences which should be acknowledged.
What are MTTx Metrics Good For?
// blameless.com
This article explains Meat Time to Detect, Acknowledge, Recover, Repair, and Resolve and how to make them actually useful.