Some great posts this week on important topics, including the economics of serverless, management in organisations adopting devops, and the importance and risks of metrics and measurements.

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An excellent, detailed analysis of the economics of serverless - looking at when EC2 pricing is more efficient than AWS Lambda. Lots of data and the assumptions made.
https://www.bbva.com/en/economics-of-serverless/

A post on the human scalability of devops. Lots of good points, although the arguments are based on a specific definition and a startup usecase. In my experience large organisations are better about the non-fungibility of engineers.
https://medium.com/@mattklein123/the-human-scalability-of-devops-e36c37d3db6a

Metrics and measurement are important parts of adopting devops but using the wrong metrics, or not evolving those metrics as your organisation evolves, can be problematic.
https://medium.com/@JonHall_/metrics-and-measurement-some-lessons-for-devops-from-itsm-c2a02e47a857

Some interesting, practical, observations around managing teams adopting devops practices. Devops tends to encourage multi-functional teams, but what management structures best support those functions working well together?
http://techalignment.com/managing-for-devops/

Etcd underpins Kubernetes as well as a number of other distributed systems, so understanding how to manage, and in particular upgrade, it is crtiical.
https://gravitational.com/blog/kubernetes-and-offline-etcd-upgrades/

If everything is a DNS problem then a good understanding of DNS is essential. This series covers everything from resolvconf to dnsmasq and the anatomy of a DNS lookup on Linux.
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/06/08/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-lookup-part-i/
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/06/18/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-lookup-part-ii/
https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/07/06/anatomy-of-a-linux-dns-lookup-part-iii/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

A look at how you can use Helm to deploy self-signed certificates along with services to Kubernetes.
https://medium.com/nuvo-group-tech/move-your-certs-to-helm-4f5f61338aca

An introduction to using AWS Secrets Manager, including password rotation and integration using AWS Lambda.
https://sanderknape.com/2018/07/manage-custom-secrets-aws-secrets-manager/

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Tools

Creating and managing self-signed certificates for local usage can be tricky. Mkcert looks like a handy tool with a simple user interface.
https://github.com/FiloSottile/mkcert

Reg is a useful command line tool for interacting with a Docker registry; listing repositories and tags, retrieving manifests and digests and downloading individual layers.
https://github.com/genuinetools/reg

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