Since EKS is pretty new, there aren’t a lot of howtos on it yet. I wanted to follow along with Amazon’s Getting started with EKS & Kubernetes Guide. However, I didn’t want to use cloudformation. We all know Terraform is far superior! With that, I went to work getting it going. And a learned a few…
How I setup wordpress to deploy automatically on aws You want to make your wordpress site bulletproof? No server outage worries? Want to make it faster & more reliable. And also host on cheaper components? I was after all these gains & also wanted to kick the tires on some of Amazon’s latest devops offerings….
I was shocked to find this article on ReadWrite: The Truth About DevOps: IT Isn’t Dead; It’s not even Dying. Wait a second, do people really think this? Truth is I have heard whispers of this before. I was at a meetup recently where the speaker claimed “With more automation, you can eliminate ops. You can…
I was just reading over StackOverflow’s 2017 Developer survey. As it turns out there were some surprising findings. One that stood out was databases. In the media, one hears more and more about NoSQL databases like Cassandra, Dynamo & Firebase. Despite all that MySQL seems to remain the most popular database by a large margin. Legacy indeed!…
Many of you know I publish a newsletter monthly. One thing I love about it is that after almost a decade of writing it regularly, the list has grown considerably. And I’m always surprised at how many former colleagues are actually reading it. So that is a really gratifying thing. Thanks to those who are,…
In the past two years, we’ve written a ton of material on scalability. Here are the greatest hits… Why Generalists Are Better at Scaling the Web The internet stack is a complex infrastructure of interlocking components. An scalability engineer must be adept at Linux, plus webservers, caching servers, search servers, automation services, and relational databases…
As DevOps adoption picks up pace, the signs are everywhere. Infrastructure as code once a backwater concept, and a hoped-for ideal, has become an essential to many startups. Why Might That Be? My theory is that devops enables the business in a lot of profound ways. Sure it means one sysadmin can do much more,…
A consultant costs more per hour than a developer you can hire right? That depends! A big firm may cost a few thousand per day. But a smaller firm or one-man shop can bring you savings in line with a team hire. 1. You’re Still Looking Have you been looking for 3 months? 6 months?…
More and more startups are looking at Redshift as a cheaper & faster solution for big data & analytics. Saggi Neumann posted a pretty good side-by-side comparison of Redshift & Hadoop and concluded they were tied based on your individual use case. Meanwhile, Bitly Engineering concluded Redshift was much easier. Why Should You Choose Redshift Outpacing Hadoop…
I was just reading Oliver Eidel’s blog. He had a great post, with some provocative ideas. Pioneers versus Process people. Now since I love to play devil’s advocate, after reading this thought-provoking article, I thought I would write a bit of my take. Are Pioneers and Process Really Characteristics Of Two Different People? As Oliver describes…