Stephen Watts
Best DevOps Books: The Definitive List
In this blog post we’ll look at the core, fundamental books that have played the largest role in creating the modern DevOps movement.
Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) vs. Load Balancers: What’s The Difference?
CDNs and load balancers fulfill similar roles, but they are different tools. This article breaks down the differences so you can decide which is right for you.
The Bulkhead and Sidecar Design Patterns for Microservices & Incident Resolution
This article looks at Bulkhead and Sidecar design patterns, including how they’re used in microservice designs — and how they help overall incident support.
CVE Severity & How To Respond To CVEs in Builds
CVEs can be serious enough to reject a build. These approaches and best practices help you assess CVE severity and determine how to manage a build.
Kubernetes 101: How To Set Up “Vanilla” Kubernetes
Kubernetes 101: Set up the most basic K8s cluster — also known as Vanilla Kubernetes — with this hands-on tutorial that gets you started quickly and easily.
Network vs. Application Performance Monitoring: What's The Difference?
Monitoring networks and application performance are different practices. Understand the changes and see how, together, both can offer end-to-end observability.
Monitoring Windows Infrastructure: Tools, Apps, Metrics & Best Practices
Learn how to monitor your Windows infrastructure, including the best tools and apps to use, the top metrics to monitor and how to analyze those metrics.
NoOps Explained: How Does NoOps Compare with DevOps?
Take a look at NoOps, the concept of automating IT and development: how it works, pros and cons and whether it’s an evolution — or the end — of DevOps.
How To Prepare for a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Interview
Prepare for your SRE interviews. These are common questions and answers to expect in any site reliability engineer interview.
Continuous Performance Management Basics
In this blog post, we will walk you through how to develop a continuous performance management playbook for your business.
CI/CD Pipeline Monitoring: An Introduction
This blog post explains how to monitor the CI/CD delivery pipeline and how to correlate that data with other metrics in order to achieve optimal overall performance of your applications.
API Testing vs Monitoring: What's The Difference?
Learn about the difference between API monitoring and testing, and when to use which approach in this blog post.
API & HTTP Headers: How to Use Request Headers in API Checks
Learn about API & HTTP request headers and how to use request headers in API checks in this blog post.
