As I’ve progressed in my career and met more colleagues, I’ve started to meet some people who are hardcore supporters of Kubernetes, containers, and microservices. Now, there’s nothing wrong with this. These inventions have made life a lot easier on both the development and operations front, but it has also brought a lot of hype and misconceptions along with it.
More …Everyone’s got certain websites and tools that they go back to, or certain guides and snippets of information that’s really hard to find, despite being very well written. I feel that I should share some of these, so that others can benefit from them.
More …If you’ve ever managed servers, you should know that there are some metrics that you should keep an eye on. AWS automatically sets you up with some metrics, such as CPU Utilization, network in/out, and status checks. However, there are still some very important metrics that are missing: memory utilization and disk usage.
More …Recently the RDS I was managing started to use a lot more burst balance than usual. In order to understand what could be done to address it, as well as how it would affect the performance of the database, I went to study the AWS documentation about how burst balance works.
More …Slowly and surely, the Kubernetes cluster I’ve set up in my company last year moves towards production usage.
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