SRE NEWSLETTER

Issue #28 // May 21, 2021

Extreme HTTP Performance Tuning
// talawah.io
This post will walk you through the performance tuning steps to serve 1.2 million JSON "API" requests per second from a 4 vCPU AWS EC2 instance.
Ansible 4.0.0 Final has been Released!
// groups.google.com
This update is based on the ansible-core-2.11.x package which is a major update from the one used by Ansible 3. There may be backwards incompatibilities in the core playbook language.
Building Self-Managed Teams: A Case Study from Riot Games
// codingsans.com
Imagine this: a team where you don’t have to hold anybody’s hand. A team that delivers results with you only minimally getting involved in the frontline work.
On Establishing a Cloud Security Program
// marcolancini.it
This post walks through actionable advice that can be undertaken to establish a cloud security program aimed at protecting a cloud native, service provider agnostic, container-based offering.
The Downtime Project
// downtimeproject.com
A new podcast that’s going to help you learn from the Internet’s most notable outages. Every episode, goes through a post-mortem for an internet outage that you might’ve heard of and talk a little bit about what happened.
GitOpsCon EU 2021
// weave.works
On May 3, 2021 the inaugural GitOpsCon was held at KubeCon EMEA 2021.
How to Learn DevOps and Cloud Native Technologies
// itnext.io
A list of resources for learning and staying up to date on DevOps topics as well as how to create a learning plan.
Kubernetes: Apprentice Cookbook
// dev.to
This article explains the most used concepts of Kubernetes relying on basic system administration concepts, then use some of these to deploy a simple web server and showcase the interactions between the different resources.
Choosing SLOs that Users Need
// squadcast.com
SLOs must be influenced by data, and that data can only come from your customers. A lot of IT professionals tend to think that they know the best metrics, and they do; the only problem is that they are the best metrics for monitoring systems, not for improving customer satisfaction.
How to Hire Site Reliability Engineers
// enterprisersproject.com
Jayne Groll asked several DevOps Institute Ambassadors and SRE subject matter experts to weigh in on what makes a great SRE. Here’s what they had to say.