Of course that having almost no automation, monitoring only 2–3 crucial http calls, having no real way to save yourself quickly if something goes terribly wrong, and releasing every 3 weeks while yelling “Leeroy Jeeenkins” (to name few of my top favorites) has to stop some time. DevOps journey of…

The software delivery process and technology, popularly known as CICD (Continuous Integration + Continuous Delivery), is a structure supporting your software (development) lifecycle. CICD is the one of most overloaded terms in modern software development, my theory is that at the moment something gets into a job description as a…

Whatever happens always happens on time. Zen quote about software delivery This article is a continuation of the discussion about NFRs of being Native to the Cloud The scale of things to come The set of complexities that you have to manage in your system, from its inception to the end of days, is immense. It…

Cloud’s biggest breakthrough wasn’t actually being a cloud. Although it might seem that putting computing in a metaphorical cloud that you could rent through the interface made a whole difference; it made it resilient, and made managing all the aspects of infrastructure and resilience easy, making its guarantee of availability…

To provide the highest possible quality of service, you have to keep a close eye on data flows in your app. This is something that, in most cases, requires you to set up the metrics of your code well and set up good monitoring on these metrics. Metrics are the…

This is the guide through the observability space to assist you with planning the observability of your next project. Observability is the ability of your system to expose data about its performance and behavior so we can further monitor, analyze, and alert on certain trends or changes. …

Services and networking — from ClusterIP to Ingress — As you are making your way through all the stages of your app’s development and you (inevitably) get to consider using Kubernetes, it is time to understand how your app components connect to each other and to the outside world when deployed to Kubernetes. Knowledge you will get from this…

Kubernetes, container registry, Helm… — Minikube is ideal tool to setup kubernetes (k8s from now on) locally to test and experiment with your deployments. In this guide I will try to help you get it up and running on your local machine, drop some tips on where and how particular stuff should be done and…

towards blockchain solution for any micro service ecosystems — As I have spent some time playing and working with blockchain solutions, at some point I decided to try and build general purpose blockchain system myself. So, to go beyond “your first blockchain” tutorial. I wanted to do it as an experiment, for purely academic purposes and see what comes…