Happy World Sysadmin Day 2023 Sysadmins are often the last resort when your office system crashes or when the network slows to a trickle. Every July, on the last Friday, professionals worldwide express their gratitude and celebrate our IT heroes, our sysadmins. On July 28, 2023, we thank sysadmins for what they do best: monitoring our IT systems and ensuring they are constantly up, fast, and secure.

DevOps is not just about operating software in production, but also releasing that software to production. Well-functioning continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines are critical for the business, and this calls for quality observability to ensure that Lead Time for Changes is kept short and that broken and flaky pipelines are quickly identified and remediated.

Domain Driven Design (DDD) is usually associated with microservice architectures. As microservice architectures have been perceived as burdensome and overly complex, so too have organizations started to call into question the relevance of DDD initiatives. The argument is usually that unless an organization reaches a mega-scale that requires eventing to keep and micro-services to scale horizontally, such architectures are overkill.

There are tons of tools to choose from when it comes to visualizing data, but Grafana has become one of the best ways for organizations to visualize information and get notified about events happening within their infrastructure or data. According to Kubernetes: In this article, we will take a look at the best practices for monitoring Kubernetes using Grafana.

Long before a business addresses ‘who’ it will choose to deliver the benefits of colocation, it needs to understand ‘why’. This is especially important if that decision is being made in the context of a choice between edge architectures, or alternatives such as hyper-scale cloud. Typically, the main order of motivation is performance, cost and control.

Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery (CI/CD) has become an essential part of modern software development, allowing teams to deliver high-quality code at a faster pace. Teams can either build or buy their CI/CD system. In this blog post, we will compare both options - exploring the advantages and disadvantages of each - and why CircleCI may be the better choice.

What is OpenTelemetry? Why is it important? Do SREs need to adopt OTel? An Explain It Like I'm 5.