DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #700 - 2nd June 2024
Devops Weekly is going to take a break.
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2024
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #699 - 26th May 2024
Platform engineering, establishing a center of production excellence, measuring the DORA metrics and tools for generating tests and writing bash. Oh, and a j...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #698 - 19th May 2024
This week we have posts on APIs, behind the scenes of a large production infrastructure, speeding up monorepo builds and tools for managing feature flags and...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #697 - 12th May 2024
This week we have a range of posts covering API specification languages, log formats and CI/CD pipelines as well as tools for building development environmen...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #696 - 5th May 2024
The DORA survey is back this week, along with posts on Jevons paradox, monitoring and testing ML models, reliability and service architecture and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #695 - 28th April 2024
A short issue this week, with some interesting posts on observability and incident response, devops community and naming.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #694 - 21st April 2024
A theme of architecture this week, with posts on the development of large systems, infrastructure evolution at scale, internal developer toolchains and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #693 - 14th April 2024
I’ve been crazy busy this week and travelling today, and with it being the start of a new quarter I thought a highlights issue, with some of the top posts fr...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #692 - 7th April 2024
Lots of KubeCon EU wrapup posts this week, along with new developer and operator tooling for incidents, developer productivity and API documentation.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #691 - 31st March 2024
eBPF, OIDC, A 20 year journey to fixing profiling, a platform maturity model and a range of other topics this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #690 - 24th March 2024
Unreliable platform engineering, scaling databases, configuration management, software supply chain security and more this week. A good mix of interesting to...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #689 - 17th March 2024
Gamedays as a technique for testing and improving performance and stability, pitfalls with measuring developer productivity, serverless databases, new code e...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #688 - 10th March 2024
Build tools, API observability, eBPF, managing development environments and some comedic relief this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #687 - 3rd March 2024
Platform Engineering, alert design and some good real world stories of debugging, testing or building internal tooling this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #686 - 25th February 2024
Configuration management, long term support, data management, monitoring and testing this week. The breadth of challenges in modern operations is always inte...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #685 - 18th February 2024
Incident postmortems, Git best practices, tips for management open telemetry names and tools and posts on open source software supply chain security this wee...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #684 - 11th February 2024
Incident management, recent vulnerability disclosures, build and release engineering and more this week. Enjoy.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #683 - 4th February 2024
Several posts this week covering developer experience and the impact of generative AI tooling, along with a few posts more generally devops in 2024.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #682 - 28th January 2024
Posts on addressing the fear of automation, continuous integration and what 2024 has in store for Devops, plus tools for managing repos at scale, synthetic m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #681 - 21st January 2024
A great excerpt from the new book Deming’s Journey to Profound Knowledge to kick things off this week, alongside posts on user centred IT, measuring develope...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #680 - 14th January 2024
Posts and tools on alert fatigue, scaling infrastructure management, developer portals, OpenTelemetry and package managers this week. Enjoy.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #679 - 7th January 2024
The first newsletter of the year, with posts on the evolution of DAST, the struggles with adopting automated testing and team topologies, as well as technica...
2023
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #678 - 31st December 2023
For the last day of 2023 I’ve pulled together a list of the best posts from the last 3 months or so. An interesting set, covering incident management, LLMs, ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #677 - 17th December 2023
Posts this week on developer portals and naming OpenTelemetry attributes, as well as several posts on people and teams, covering the role of engineering mana...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #675 - 3rd December 2023
Posts on observability, large systems evolution, software supply chain security, architecture principles and AWS re:Invent this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #675 - 3rd December 2023
A mix of topics this week, running from operations (status page updates), observability (several posts on open telemetry use cases), plus videos from the rec...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #674 - 26th November 2023
Several FinOps related posts this week, along with a case study of moving build systems at scale, a review of the recent KubeCon event in Chicago and new too...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #673 - 19th November 2023
Technical posts on new DNS record types and authorization approaches, along with posts on the history of Devops through to how AI is changing software develo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #672 - 12th November 2023
Several posts on the impact of AI on operations, from incident response to infrastructure as code. Lots to look forward to in that space I’d wager. Plus post...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #671 - 5th November 2023
Several sets of posts this week on Prometheus and its ecosystem, coming out of the recent PromCon event. Plus discussion of being on-call, a counter-argument...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #670 - 29th October 2023
Incident management, operating ElasticSearch clusters and Argo, tools for API linting and a scattering of other topics this week for your enjoyment.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #669 - 22nd October 2023
Posts on chaos engineering for security, DORA metrics for incident management and vulnerability management for containers this week, along with tools from AP...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #668 - 15th October 2023
Posts this week covering alert design, eBPF usage, LLM operations, new tools for secrets management and for instrumentation, and the latest DORA State of Dev...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #667 - 8th October 2023
Lots and lots of tools this week, with API and observability platforms and new infrastructure as code tooling. Plus posts on tools facilitating collaboration...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #666 - 1st October 2023
A bit of an observability and security theme this week, with posts on combining observability with security, threat modelling, incident reviews and open sour...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #665 - 24th September 2023
A few posts on CI tooling this week, along with a good introduction to developer portals/platforms and other topics.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #664 - 17th September 2023
Several posts this week on the future of devops, and a call for a new generation of tools that don’t just build on what has come before.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #663 - 10th September 2023
Reliability, secure AI, service mesh adoption and prompt engineering testing tools amongst other hopefully interesting topics this week.And if you’re in Lond...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #662 - 3rd September 2023
The State of Devops report is back, along with posts on problems measuring latency, event-driven architecture, measuring developer productivity and serverles...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #661 - 27th August 2023
A wide mix of topics this week, from learning from incidents to agile auditing and software supply chain tooling to LLMs and more. Enjoy.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #660 - 20th August 2023
Several posts this week on the Terraform licence change, covering the spectrum of opinions. Plus posts on attestation framework, actions from incident manage...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #659 - 13th August 2023
Distributed systems, incident management and reliability culture, OpenTelemetry, databases and more. A good mix this week of super technical posts and more p...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #658 - 6th August 2023
In-depth posts on graph databases and ChatGTP function calling, along with posts on building an SRE team, observability, CI configuration and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #657 - 30th July 2023
SBOM discussion and tooling, platform teams, integration tests for infrastructure as code, service level objectives and more this week. Plus another stalwart...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #656 - 23rd July 2023
Infrastructure as Code, several posts on platform engineering, the state of APIs, SBOM adoption hurdles, tools and the upcoming Devops Days London event.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #655 - 16th July 2023
A mix of topics this week, with DevopsDays coverage, a few posts each on both monitoring and Kubernetes, and tools for managing your CLI tools and implementi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #654 - 9th July 2023
A big mix of posts on Detection engineering, new security guidelines for AWS, open source search engines, build tools and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #653 - 2nd July 2023
A super busy week this week, meaning fewer posts. But look out for the All Day Devops CFP opening up, as well as posts on monitoring, webassembly, architectu...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #652 - 25th June 2023
Monitoring. AI developer tools and AI mode vulnerabilities. DNS (always DNS). And an interesting survey focused on SRE to read and participate in.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #651 - 18th June 2023
Event driven architectures, launching new services at scale, designing alerting systems, software supply chain security, release engineering and SQL. A nice ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #650 - 11th June 2023
Developer platforms, AI hallucination, open source, portable development environments and a new SBOM-related tool I’ve been hacking on recently.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #649 - 4th June 2023
Trunk based development, observability cost and cognitive load, advances in web assembly and some interesting policy and security tools posts this week. Enjo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #648 - 28th May 2023
Fitting into the overall zeitgeist, several AI posts this week. From observations about the challenges with building LLM-backed features, to security conside...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #647 - 21st May 2023
A good mix of posts, events and tools this week, with datacenter posts and CLI tools for AI, shrinking SaaS budgets for devops tools and some excellent upcom...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #646 - 14th May 2023
With a few weeks since KubeCon, folks have had time to write up takeaways, so we have a quote a few KubeCon and Kubernetes posts this week. Plus posts on AI-...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #645 - 7th May 2023
A sad note to start with this week. Carolyn Van Slyck passed away last week. She was a huge part of the Kubernetes community, building interesting software a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #644 - 30th April 2023
KubeCon EU a couple of weeks ago means there are several Kubermnetes relates posts this week, along with posts on developer platforms, devops attack surface,...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #643 - 23rd April 2023
A mix of content this week, from some good posts on managing monitoring infrastructure to tools for maintaining health test suites, provisioning Kubernetes c...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #642 - 16th April 2023
Several new build tools this week, along with posts on prompt injection attacks on LLMs, load balancing and a CFP for the upcoming devopsdays New York event.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #641 - 9th April 2023
Lots of tools this week, along with a few (inevitable) posts on GPT-4 for devops related use cases.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #640 - 2nd April 2023
Incident reports, cloud spending, buy vs build, reducing error rates, as well as new tools, events and more this week. Just the usual week for busy operation...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #639 - 26th March 2023
Several incident management posts and tools this week, long with discussion of platform engineering teams, a good sociotechnical systems reading list and tec...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #638 - 19th March 2023
From 40 year old technology in MX records to brand new technology in GPT-3, and lots in between this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #637 - 12th March 2023
From the business of engineering to the more technical posts. Cloud spend, platform engineering, service-mesh adoption, the problem with secrets, SBOM wor...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #636 - 5th March 2023
A mix of posts (on incident management, platform engineering, token exposure and more) and tools (including for working with APIs, building complex service-b...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #635 - 26th January 2023
A range of posts this week on cloud strategy, AWS, Node.js tools, supply chain security and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #634 - 19th January 2023
Incident management, several posts on software supply chain security, a good introduction to fuzzing, config management and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #633 - 12th January 2023
Developer platforms, YAML!, personal development, SBOMs, serverless operations and more. No real theme this week, but several good posts on a range of techni...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #632 - 5th January 2023
A mix of posts, tools and events this week. Covering monitoring, infrastructure management, vulnerability management, data engineering and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #631 - 29th January 2023
A few posts this week (on data teams, structured logs, core web vitals and more) but lots of new tools to look at too.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #630 - 22nd January 2023
Thinking of all the folks at Microsoft, Google and other companies laid off over the last week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #629 - 15th January 2023
Good posts this week on platform engineering, cost effective architectures, supply chain security and moving from heuristic to ML models amongst others posts...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #628 - 8th January 2023
Platform teams, CI/CD, supply chain security, Terraform hints and more this week. Hoping everyone is having a good start to 2023.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #627 - 1st January 2023
Happy new year to all the subscribers, new and old. A bit of a different issue this week. I thought I’d take a look back at some of the most interesting post...
2022
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #626 - 25th December 2022
Merry Christmast to those celebrating today. Just a few posts today, looking at architecture diagrams, kubectl plugins, avoiding merge conflicts in configura...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #625 - 18th December 2022
Incident management, cloud complexity, open telemetry adoption as well as a few handy utilities this week. For those starting a holiday this week, I hope you...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #624 - 11th December 2022
Devops metrics, observability in Kubernetes, SBOM politics, good old log management and secrets. Lots of variety this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #623 - 4th December 2022
Several posts this week on platform engineering, which is certainly seeing a lot of interest at the moment with roles, new companies and changes to how we tr...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #622 - 27th November 2022
WASM use cases, low level performance debugging, supply chain security concepts and several posts and tools for container development this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #621 - 20th November 2022
KubeCon, reproducible builds, internet infrastructure, low-level VM performance research and Kubernetes security posts this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #620 - 13th November 2022
Building SRE teams, software transparency, Kubernetes and application portability, WASM, monitoring, graph databases and more. No real theme this week, just ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #619 - 6th November 2022
Several infrastructure as code posts and new tools this week, plus several posts on this last week’s OpenSSL vulnerability disclosure and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #618 - 30th October 2022
Lots of tools this week, from performance caching to a whole new developer collaboration UX. Plus posts on incident management, Unix time, API security and m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #617 - 23rd October 2022
API security, CI observability, auditing production access, kubernetes logging, runtime analysis. Quite the range of topics this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #616 - 16th October 2022
Several posts on software supply chain security this week, from different points of view. Plus some interesting new API tooling, the upcoming KubeCon event a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #615 - 9th October 2022
A post on the emergence of platform engineering, which is also handily the topic of the latest State of Devops survey which opens this week. Plus a few monit...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #614 - 2nd October 2022
Logging formats, operations culture, private cloud and the latest Accelerate State of Devops report, plus tools for supply chain management, managing Git hoo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #613 - 25th September 2022
Several posts on the topic of supply chain security this week, from critiques of published guidance, dependency security and interesting new tooling to help ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #612 - 18th September 2022
A short issue this week, but with some detailed case studies on workflow management with Argo, securing software pipelines with IaC and policy and a modern m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #611 - 11th September 2022
Distributed systems design, new programming languages, software supply chain maturity models, eBPF, on-call compensation. A range of different topics this we...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #610 - 4th September 2022
A good mix of content this week on architecture, container build tools, incident management and AWS Lambda this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #609 - 28th August 2022
Several interesting posts on Installation and packaging of software this week. Building tools for installation and packaging is a common activity for operati...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #608 - 21st August 2022
Dashboards, performance analysis, circuit breakers, Kubernetes, Terraform and more this week, plus several tools from dependency management to security testi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #607 - 14th August 2022
Several long reads this week, and several posts with a bit of historical context; on Java, devops and CI services. Some excellent posts too on practical oper...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #606 - 7th August 2022
Incident management, Kubernetes developer tools, organising development teams, multi-cloud adoption and more this week. A good mix of technical and wider top...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #605 - 31st July 2022
Debugging complexity, databases (both large and small), keeping AWS tidy, Git at scale and more in-the-weeds posts this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #604 - 24th July 2022
Lots of topics this week, from technology learning materials to DNS, and formal methods to alert design, plus several azure infrastructure management tools.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #602 - 17th July 2022
A classic week where I wonder if there were enough interesting posts, before diving into a wealth of interesting content. Operations, explaining SRE to manag...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #602 - 10th July 2022
A bit of a theme this week of developer experience, with posts, talks and tools focused on developers as users, including for internal tools common in operat...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #601 - 3rd July 2022
Build engineering, metrics design, explaining architecture, supply chain security and PXE booting tools amongst other topics this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #600 - 26th June 2022
Welcome to the 600th issue of this newsletter! That’s certainly a strange thing to write, nearly 12 years of sharing posts and tools on the evolving world of...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #599 - 19th June 2022
Lots of tools this week, from Linux distributions specifically for Kubernetes to tools for deploying in air-gapped environments. Plus posts on reliability en...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #598 - 12th June 2022
Supply chain security, infrastructure automation, local vs remote development environments and several new Kubernetes networking tools in this weeks issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #597 - 5th June 2022
A short issue this week, with posts on Incident response, learning operations, managing configuration, evolving altering systems and a few interesting tools.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #596 - 29th May 2022
Incident management, several posts on kubernetes technology choices, writing Rego and KubeCon this week, plus the launch of the latest Accelerate State of De...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #595 - 22nd May 2022
Something for everyone this week, with risk management, security maturity models and incident management posts on the business side, plus GitOps, GitBOM and ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #594 - 15th May 2022
Observability and user-friendly git signing tools, plus useful principles for data migrations, configuration management and more this week. Enjoy KubeCon EU ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #593 - 8th May 2022
The rise of very public, in-depth, high-profile incident reports in the last few years is definitely of benefit to the art of systems administration. Atlassi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #592 - 1st May 2022
A few posts this week on aspects of building modern operations teams, one focused on observability teams, and the other on building an SRE team in a hypergro...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #591 - 24th April 2022
Observability, DORA metrics, automating SLO management, setting policies for Git repos and more. We’re also starting to see the return of events, with WTF is...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #590 - 17th April 2022
Several security themed posts this week, from OpenID Connect enabled CD pipelines to security architecture and vulnerability disclosure to WAF. Plus good sys...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #589 - 10th April 2022
Three posts on building reliable (people and technical) systems at scale, incident response processes and platform engineering this week that all feel like m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #588 - 3rd April 2022
Doubling up on posts on both technology choice and backups this week, as well as lots of new and interesting tools covering everything from CI/CD and SSH ser...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #587 - 27th March 2022
Several in-depth posts this week on crunch operations topics, including metrics for incident response, SLOs and SLIs and the idea that you build it, you run ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #586 - 20th March 2022
Recent improvements to the venerable sudo as well as posts on retry logic, monitoring monitoring systems GitOps and a few other interesting topics this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #585 - 13th March 2022
Posts this week on incident management, debugging certification issues, Kubernetes abstractions, cloud management tooling, network security and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #584 - 6th March 2022
Posts on networking, monitoring and kubernetes adoption, along with several posts discussing build tools and patterns for container images.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #583 - 27th February 2022
My thoughts, like everyones, this weekend with the situation in Ukraine, and my colleagues and friends from the region. One of them shared https://savelife.i...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #582 - 20th February 2022
No particular theme this issue, but posts on developer experience, configuration management, devops job titles, incident management, supply chain security an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #581 - 13th February 2022
Posts on reliable systems, software supply chain security, infrastructure automation and more. Plus a quick correction.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #580 - 6th February 2022
Lots of new tools this week, with several useful to help with surfacing information as part of normal developer workflows , as well as posts on incident mana...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #579 - 30th January 2022
Lots of good ops posts this week, from linux systems administration to outage retrospective and creating actionable alerts to managing large Kubernetes clust...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #578 - 23rd January 2022
A packed issue this week, with posts on supply chain security, AWS management, software development metrics, OpenTelemetry and more. Plus several interesting...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #577 - 16th January 2022
Lots of interesting posts this week, with a general theme of security. From securing GitHub organisations, research on developer education, an SBOM primer an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #576 - 9th January 2022
Posts on everything from secure supply chain, performance testing and reliable systems design to conversational architecture and team organisation. A good ra...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #575 - 2nd January 2022
A short issue this week as we start the new year with cloud management tools, performance case studies, learning Azure and AWS services and a few other posts.
2021
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #574 - 26th December 2021
Merry Christmas to those celebrating, and thanks to everyone on-call over this busy period for lots of services. Lots of content this week, on deployment dec...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #573 - 19th December 2021
APIs and integration, the return of Sysadvent, SLOs and a little Log4Shell this week. Hope folks still dealing with the ongoing vulnerability situation are g...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #572 - 12th December 2021
(I wrote this last week, and only now realised I didn’t sent it. In case you were wondering how Log4Shell scrabbled my brain last week.)
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #571 - 5th December 2021
Lots of tools this week, from Kubernetes autoscaling to kernels for low level compute, to high level domain specific deployment tools and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #570 - 28th November 2021
A few posts this week on on-call processes, as well as project management tools, using version control systems for compliance purposes and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #569 - 21st November 2021
A real mix of content this week, on everything from incident reports and supply chain security to robust network systems and data governance.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #568 - 14th November 2021
Security, load testing, developer efficiency, automated releases, PostgreSQL and lots more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #567 - 7th November 2021
Two posts this week on large scale CI systems, and the interesting engineering around them. Also a great post on building trust in complex systems, a new Lua...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #566 - 31st October 2021
Service ownership, scripting languages, open source observability tooling, operations career progression, stored procedures, logging and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #565 - 24th October 2021
Lots of good posts this week I feel across a wide range of topics. KubeCon wrap ups, detailed incident reports, production readiness reviews, scaling storage...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #564 - 17th October 2021
Seeing all of the tweets from KubeCon this week really made me miss seeing everyone in person. Devops to me has been all about the community, and while that ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #563 - 10th October 2021
A couple of posts this week looking at the recent Accelerate State of Devops research, along with a few behind the scenes of Kubernetes (on dual stack networ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #562 - 3rd October 2021
Lots of new tools this week, along with several posts on Observability, data center monitoring and SLOs. Quite a classic operations feel this issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #561 - 26th September 2021
One of the interesting things about curating this newsletter for so long is the historical perspective. Two related posts this week, one on the updated resea...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #560 - 19th September 2021
Lots of configuration management posts this week, on Terraform, gitops and SQL, plus lots of interesting new tools.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #559 - 12th September 2021
A few good hindsight design posts this week, both on API design and on data storage cost control. As with lots of decisions, you can apply some patterns too ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #558 - 5th September 2021
Error budgets, managing ransomware, SRE, observability, handy Git tools and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #557 - 29th August 2021
Internet fundamentals, survey of cloud usages, production outstage stories, instumenting build processes and more solid devops and operations content this we...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #556 - 22nd August 2021
Identify and access management, data operations, root cause analysis, SLOs and a few interesting Kubernetes security posts and tools this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #555 - 15th August 2021
Software packaging has been one of the constant topics in devops circles over the last 10 years, it’s one of the topics that drew me to the community back in...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #554 - 8th August 2021
Posts this week on monitoring (with posts on scaling Prometheus and the relationship between testing and observability), Docker usage tips, modern Unix tools...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #553 - 1st August 2021
Reports on devops and cloud trends and papers on developer productivity this week, along with posts on SRE for microservices and everyone’s favourite topic, ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #552 - 25th July 2021
A set of posts on Devops transformation, SRE and Kubernetes tools and practices this week. Congrats to everyone involved in the 10th year of the State of Dev...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #551 - 18th July 2021
Lots of observability posts this week, from introductions to instrumentation to consideration for data engineering. Plus software bill of material standards,...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #550 - 11th July 2021
WebAssembly, Kubernetes and Serverless posts today. I think increasingly we’ll see the three combined in interesting ways as well as some folks position them...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #549 - 4th July 2021
Several good posts this week with an architecture theme, along with posts on Kubernetes tooling, BPF, sharing Grafana dashboards and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #548 - 27th June 2021
A couple of posts looking at the Twelve Factor App and back at the ensuring influence of Heroku. Also several Kubernetes policy-related posts featuring Open ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #547 - 20th June 2021
Several posts this week regarding incident management, from the risks of counting incidents to incident management frameworks, as well as great hardening exe...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #546 - 13th June 2021
Asset management and tips for moving into information security, as well reducing cloud network transfer costs and tips for Prometheus, JVM and PostgreSQL use...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #545 - 6th June 2021
Health on-call culture, usable monitoring dashboards, AWS security boundaries, technical posts on ProtoBuf performance, container build toolchains and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #544 - 30th May 2021
The growing cost of cloud services, on-demand staging environments, defining SLOs in code, data sharing and several other topics this week across the devops ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #543 - 23rd May 2021
Several posts this week on Kubernetes operations, from debugging running pods to scheduling and from migrating to Kubernetes at scale to service mesh complex...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #542 - 16th May 2021
Metrics, dashboards, KubeCon recaps and lots of tools this week, from eBPF on Windows to new tools for testing with Kubernetes and Linux.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #541 - 9th May 2021
Quite a few KubeCon inspired posts this week, including several Kubernetes-related tools.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #540 - 2nd May 2021
Cost efficiency, runbooks, using games to build teams, logging services, secrets management and more. Lots of core operations topics this week. Plus the retu...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #539 - 25th April 2021
It feels like we’re at the time of year where interesting events are starting to crop up. DevX Conf and Failover Conf mentioned below coming up this week def...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #538 - 18th April 2021
Several good technology and tools posts this week, including on SQLite, Vault, Spring Boot, Cloud Run, Cosign, Telepresence, open policy agent, containerd an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #537 - 11th April 2021
A few specific, practical posts this week on container image tags and getting started with CINC Auditor. Plus discussion of the relevance of operating system...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #536 - 4th April 2021
Distributed operating systems, high performance teams and continuous delivery, logging, caching, security. Good range of content this week I reckon.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #535 - 28th March 2021
Operations and compliance, a few posts on helping to justify investment, and see the results of, improvements to your CI and CD pipelines, collected Kubernet...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #534 - 21st March 2021
I was lucky enough to be around the nascent devops community early on, hence the long running nature of this newsletter. Another ever-present has been the St...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #533 - 14th March 2021
The rich future of operations careers, secrets leakage, making encryption easier to apply to software releases and a few posts on Kubernetes tooling.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #532 - 7th March 2021
Some great longer reads this week on cloud migration, architecture and security engineering teams working more closely with development organisations. Plus s...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #531 - 28th February 2021
Empathy for systems administrators, performance engineering, logging and secrets management in AWS, scaling infrastructure as code practices and more this we...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #530 - 21st February 2021
A look at the package repository side of dependency confusion attacks, 2021 predictions, working in IT and tools for moving files between cloud storage servi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #529 - 14th February 2021
Lots of tools this week, from small utilities for secret detection and AWS management, to tools working with Knative and monorepos. Plus posts on devops tren...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #528 - 7th February 2021
The usual mix of topics this week, but several posts on build systems; building container images, Cargo build tricks, the importance of securing software bui...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #527 - 31st January 2021
Several security-related posts this week, from incident reports to Kubernetes permissions and security architecture. Plus reliability, rising software comple...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #526 - 24th January 2021
Cost-per-performance for ARM servers, a maturity model for security and development team, web performance and tools for discovering open policy agent policie...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #525 - 17th January 2021
Several posts this week on the ever-important topic of build tools. Architecture, a couple of deep-dive Kubernetes posts and securing your GitHub repositorie...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #524 - 10th January 2021
Several posts on the cost of maintenance and change as software teams grow. Plus engineering management, sketch notes for learning GCP, alert fatigue and mor...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #523 - 3rd January 2021
The first issue of 2021, with posts on developer dashboards, long-running CI pipelines, compression and cloud service billing, message queue and more.
2020
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #522 - 27th December 2020
The last issue of the year. It’s somewhat comforting to remember topics like service levels, monitoring, service-based architecture and ETL are all as releva...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #521 - 20th December 2020
Everything from data engineering to Serverless operations and consensus algorithms to Kubernetes this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #520 - 13th December 2020
Lots of infrastructure as code posts this week, along with several interesting operations case studies covering upgrading data infrastructure and monitoring ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #519 - 6th December 2020
Starting out this week with a good post on something I think the devops movement has made more common, or at least more visible; people moving between adjace...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #518 - 29nd November 2020
Incident reports, books covering devops topics, KubeCon reports and several interesting new tools this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #517 - 22nd November 2020
With KubeCon finishing up this last week we have a fair amount of Kubernetes news this week, but if that’s not your thing look out for some good posts on emb...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #516 - 15th November 2020
Posts on CI/CD, platform teams, self-service automation and edge environments this week, along with several new tools for chaos testing, certificate-based au...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #515 - 8th November 2020
BPF, programming languages, infrastructure as code security, open standards and OpenTelemetry, integration testing for large microservice architectures and m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #514 - 1st November 2020
From automation to the need to help executives understand some of the technical aspects of digital transformation, and from stories of operational inciden...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #513 - 24th October 2020
A mix of content this week; security theatre, continuation management quality metrics, tracing infrastructure and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #512 - 18th October 2020
Devops adoption KPIs and maturity models. New Hashicorp tools in Waypoint and Boundary. Discussion of versioning and security due-diligence. A range of diffe...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #511 - 11th October 2020
A mix of people and process (on-call for managers, team design), practice (observability, logging) and tooling (Terraform, Kubernetes) posts this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #510 - 4th October 2020
Lots of higher level content this week, from service registries to open source compliance policies and dealing with least privilege to attribute based access...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #509 - 27th September 2020
A few posts this week on choosing software, both of which touch on the desire to outsource operations. Another post on the evolution of the role of systems a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #508 - 20th September 2020
Alerting on SLOs, testing in production, UNIX programming fundamentals, Kubernetes dashboards and a handy tool for tagging cloud resources with Terraform.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #507 - 13th September 2020
Chaos engineering, building an SRE team, some interesting audit tools and a range of container infrastructure topics this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #506 - 6th September 2020
Feature flags, incident response, complex adaptive systems and the return of Devops Days in a virtual format. Lots of variety this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #505 - 30th August 2020
Some good content on how we think about operations this week, with posts on legacy IT systems, problems with platform teams, SRE in different types of organi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #504 - 23th August 2020
Some solid ops content this week, on the changing role of operations, NAT networking, tagging cloud resources, logging, testing infrastructure as code, and m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #503 - 16th August 2020
I always like seeing what themes emerge from the week’s content. This week several posts on networking, query languages and the similarities and differences ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #502 - 9th August 2020
Lots of interesting tools this week, include a new container runtime and a new Envoy-based service mesh. Also posts covering anti-patterns for digital transf...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #501 - 2nd August 2020
Lots of high-level content this week. Digital transformation, building platforms for adoption, domain driven design, cloud centres of excellence. Plus seccom...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #500 - 26th July 2020
I sent the first issue of Devops Weekly on the 30th of November 2010. I definitely didn’t think for a minute that nearly 10 years later I’d be sending the 50...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #499 - 19th July 2020
Learning from indecent response, cloud lift and shift, continuous delivery design patterns and some good tips and discussion of operations this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #498 - 12th July 2020
A collection of networking posts this week, from load balancers to understanding Kubernetes networking to kernel networking. Plus posts on monitoring and con...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #497 - 5th July 2020
A wide mix of posts this week, from academic papers, reference architectures for Serverless, embracing policy controls in the development process, chaos engi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #496 - 28th June 2020
This issue I’d like to welcome the new sponsor for Devops Weekly, env0. env0 are doing some interesting things with providing self-service environments for d...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #495 - 21st June 2020
A wide range of content this week, from adopting continuous delivery at scale to different roles, several posts on automation around pull requests and discus...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #494 - 14th June 2020
Lots of posts this week on common challenges for growing teams and organisations. Test speed, monorepo performance, strategy patterns, data platform migratio...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #493 - 7th June 2020
Some very topical posts this week. Plus the more usual content; Intel/ARM performance comparisons, chaos engineering meets security and several interesting K...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #492 - 31st May 2020
I usually ignore current events in these introductions but that doesn’t feel appropriate this weekend. To all of my friends in the US, stay safe.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #491 - 24th May 2020
Build pipeline optimisation, serverless application design, using PostgreSQL for analysis, infrastructure as code and tried and trusted linux command line t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #490 - 17th May 2020
AIOps, Observability, several new Kubernetes tools and the return of Software Circus next week in this week’s issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #489 - 10th May 2020
Posts this week covering the emergence of platform teams, journald, AWS and a writeup from a devops conference held on a virtual island populated by animals.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #488 - 3rd May 2020
Several architecture posts this week, along with posts looking at modern continuous deployment tools, shell scripting, complexity and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #487 - 26th April 2020
A broad range of ops topics this week, from the new (chaos engineering, cloud cost management) to the old (security, database operations, branch strategies).
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #486 - 19th April 2020
Lots of great content this week, from post-indent reviews to infosec/operations collaboration, microservices testing, API transport options and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #485 - 12th April 2020
A few good case studies this week, along with articles on project governance, understanding how third parties are using your Puppet modules, AWS container b...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #484 - 5th April 2020
Cloud management tagging tips, deployment and serverless case studies, databases, an interesting attack matrix and several new Kubernetes management tools th...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #483 - 29th March 2020
Messaging middleware, containers and CI systems, speeding up encryption and a few useful tools for anyone managing AWS this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #482 - 22nd March 2020
Odd sending a technical newsletter at times like these, but on balance it’s nice to have something to read and new tools to experiment with. Several architec...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #481 - 15th March 2020
Several posts on modern network stacks, discussion of application security, standard interfaces, packaging and serverless adoption this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #480 - 8th March 2020
CI pipeline optimisations, platforms and platform teams and posts and tools around using general purpose programming languages for authoring configuration. L...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #479 - 1st March 2020
Several security posts this week following on from RSA, as well as posts on extending Kubernetes, using production analytics to ensure safe rollouts of compl...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #478 - 23rd February 2020
Lots of great operations content this week, with an in-depth look at an public incident report, discussion of game days, operational excellence, shadow organ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #477 - 16th February 2020
Everything from how work works in organisations, when to adopt microservices, scaling database migrations, several posts on Terraform best practices and more...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #476 - 9th February 2020
Team organisation, incident management processes, configuration management, monitoring AWS Lambda functions and several new tools Kubernetes application tool...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #475 - 2nd February 2020
A short issue this week, but with links to lots of great technical talks, a discussion of the changing role of the CIO and some kubernetes security and low-l...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #474 - 26th January 2020
Lots of build posts this week, on new build tools, developer framework integration and the security of build servers. Plus operations lessons, devops reading...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #473 - 19th January 2020
Lots of fundamentals this week, with posts on tagging, APIs, monitoring and incident response.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #472 - 12th January 2020
Technology choices, several solid technical architecture posts, building an internal PaaS, monitoring and naming things. Lots to read this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #471 - 5th January 2020
A new year and lots of posts on continuous delivery and operational resilience this week. If anyone has any 2020 prediction posts, or posts looking back on 2...
2019
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #470 - 29th December 2019
File systems, serverless patterns, security journeys, GitHub Actions tips and the overlap between tools and devops culture. Lots to dive into this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #469 - 22nd December 2019
For all the folks starting holidays at this time of year, think of all of the systems administrators and others keeping the lights on. Here’s hoping everyone...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #468 - 15th December 2019
Incident management, terraform code organisation, supply chain attacks, debugging distributed systems and a range of other topics this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #467 - 8th December 2019
Monitoring tool comparisons, more semantic API content, cloud account management with code, testing infrastructure configuration and some observations from K...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #466 - 1st December 2019
New monitoring tools, Serverless experience a report, devops and devsecops theory and discussion of policy testing this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #465 - 24th November 2019
KubeCon was all consuming last week, so I’m not sure I kept up with everything going on at the conference, never mind elsewhere. But still lots to read this ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #464 - 17th November 2019
It’s the weekend before KubeCon, which means the next issue just might have far too much Kubernetes content for some folks. Fair warning. This issue we have ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #463 - 10th November 2019
Infrastructure testing, monitoring, managing access control, enterprise devops case studies and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #462 - 3rd November 2019
Lots of content on culture, automation and monitoring this week, including presentation, podcasts, tools and blog posts.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #461 - 27th October 2019
Configuration management, a few posts on policy controls, deployment practices and the link between culture and tools to read up on this week. Enjoy the 10 y...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #460 - 20th October 2019
Lots of posts this week covering topics as wide ranging as infrastructure as code, team culture, security testing and static analysis, metrics, on-call and m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #459 - 13th October 2019
Lots of thoughtful content on devops staple topics like testing, configuration management, technology adoption and monitoring this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #458 - 6th October 2019
Multi-cloud, the part caching plays in Serverless architectures, conversational interfaces and several new tools and events feature this weekend.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #457 - 29th September 2019
Definitely a theme of simplicity/complexity in a few posts this week, from considering testing in production to applying cynefin to devops to discussions of ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #456 - 22nd September 2019
Several posts on security this week, from the business side with managing a security team with KPIs,, hands on tops for threat modelling, and a technical pre...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #455 - 15th September 2019
A quick shout out to say the 10 year Devopsdays anniversary event is coming up, at the end of October in Ghent. The term devops was coined for the very first...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #454 - 8th September 2019
Some good posts on operations fundamentals this week, including security policy and the relationship between delivery speed and stability, as well as a case ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #453 - 1st September 2019
A relatively brief issue this week as I’ve mainly been on holiday the past week. Still several interesting posts on security embracing devops, a look at exis...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #452 - 25th August 2019
Product teams in operations, delving into the technical details of API gateways and linux capabilities, databases, DNS and new shells, Kubernetes build and d...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #451 - 18th August 2019
Posts on policy, serverless architecture, the challenges of monitoring Python applications and several posts on tools for developing with Kubernetes this wee...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #450 - 11th August 2019
Quite a few technical posts this week, with several on new developer or integration tools around Kubernetes. Alongside those we have content on learning, sha...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #449 - 4th August 2019
A wide range of posts this week, on logging, robust systems, observations about recent security compromises, devops and machine learning, Kubernetes develope...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #448 - 28th July 2019
Monitoring, security, production readiness, database migrations, Kubernetes and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #447 - 21st July 2019
A mix of posts this week on serverless architectures, advancements in continuous delivery tooling and monitoring distributed systems.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #446 - 14th July 2019
A busy week so a relatively short issue today. Some detailed posts on scaling graphite and setting up a CI/CD pipeline for Helm charts and several posts on p...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #445 - 7th July 2019
For some reason this issue is nearly all about monitoring. Lots of slides, videos and notes from the recent Monitorama event but also several blog posts look...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #444 - 30th June 2019
Several posts this week on observability and monitoring, along with posts on configuration management, local development environments, threat modelling and m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #443 - 23rd June 2019
Interesting posts this week on what causes service outages, visualising cloud infrastructure, operational concerns with service mesh, how to think about serv...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #442 - 16th June 2019
This week we have posts covering serverless operations, Kubernetes failure stories to learn from, discussions of how to make the argument for investing in te...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #441 - 9th June 2019
Infrastructure as code, service level objectives, the importance of local development environments as well as new tools for exploring cloud-based infrastruct...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #440 - 2nd June 2019
Starting off with several solid practical posts this week, with advice on adopting CI/CD, secure system design, and embracing sustainable operations practice...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #439 - 26th May 2019
Some content this week from KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. But lots of content from outside the Kubernetes space as well with posts on the need for a new securi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #438 - 19th May 2019
It’s the week of KubeCon EU in Barcelona, if you happen to be heading along do say Hi. If not, I’ll try and collect as many links from the event as possible ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #437 - 12th May 2019
A later than usual issue this week due to some travel shenanigans. But lots of content this week on everything from modern architecture patterns, securing da...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #436 - 5th May 2019
Config management, continuous delivery, managing monorepos, integration testing, deployment strategies and incident management tools. Lots of interesting con...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #435 - 28th April 2019
A mix of topics this week, resilience engineering, benchmarking service mesh infrastructure, some thoughts on web assembly and serverless platforms.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #434 - 21st April 2019
A bunch of experience reports this week, including around Fargate, Kubernetes, embracing production failure and envoy. Also a great series of posts on inform...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #433 - 14th April 2019
A discussion of a method for managing on-call, common challenges adopting chaos engineering, advice for adopting new technology and practices and several goo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #432 - 7th April 2019
Monitoring, operational sympathy and a few Kubernetes posts this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #431 - 31st March 2019
I think this is the first Devops Weekly issue to feature a choose your own adventure game. If you’ve ever been on call, or have teams going on call for the f...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #430 - 24th March 2019
Configuration formats, data pipeline design, local development environments, getting started with serverless and several posts on managing multi-user Kuberne...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #429 - 17th March 2019
Structured logging, configuring Kubernetes, gRPC and AWS Lambda, a good introduction to NATs for messaging and more this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #428 - 10th March 2019
Lots of tools this week, and only a few posts, plus a few slide decks from last weeks QCon event in London. I’ve spotted lots of conversations recently about...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #427 - 3rd March 2019
Some good long reads this week, on everything from counter arguments to SRE practices, a few posts on successfully adopting devops and cloud practices in lar...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #426 - 24th February 2019
Interesting posts this week on holding incident drills, monitoring ephemeral infrastructure, the glut of high-quality books on devops topics, managing Kubern...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #425 - 17th February 2019
Lots of variety this week, from on-call, devops misconceptions and future architectures to software versioning and new configuration and policy enforcement t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #424 - 10th February 2019
A bit of a security theme this week, with posts on formal methods for firewall configuration, tools for managing TLS, discussions of the role of perimeter de...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #423 - 3rd February 2019
It’s that time of year when the configuration management community meet up in beautiful Gent, in Belgium (also home to the original Devopsdays event). Lots o...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #422 - 27th January 2019
New technology and discussion of operations this week; from on-call and incident investigations to package management and logging.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #421 - 20th January 2019
Some good modern operations posts this week, with a few debugging tales, discussion of monitoring, getting started with cloud services and a good introductio...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #420 - 13th January 2019
A few posts this week reminding us that storage and state make everything harder.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #419 - 6th January 2019
Kicking off the new year with a matching set of posts for and against using monorepos for storing your source code. I always like seeing pros and cons discus...
2018
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #418 - 30th December 2018
Happy new year to all the readers of Devops Weekly. See you all in 2019.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #417 - 23rd December 2018
Coming quickly to the end of 2018, if anyone has any summary blog posts or predictions for next year in the world of devops please let me know.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #416 - 16th December 2018
The Kubernetes community is starting to move on beyond the core APIs and we’re seeing lots of innovation around custom resources. A few examples in today’s n...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #415 - 9th December 2018
Just arriving in Seattle with 8000 others for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon. The only problem is likely to be keeping up with all the context and announcements....
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #414 - 2nd December 2018
I’m in Barcelona in the run up to DockerCon, so this weeks issue is a little abbridge. Still, several interesting posts on choosing serverless tooling, how w...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #413 - 25th November 2018
A relatively short issue this week due to general business, but several interesting long reads and a number of new tools for building container images, manag...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #412 - 18th November 2018
Some topics I cover in this this newsletter weren’t really around when I started, at least in the way we know them know. This week we have posts on tracing, ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #411 - 11th November 2018
Issue 411. Sent at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #410 - 4th November 2018
Several posts this week from Velocity in London, one of the best conferences I’ve been along to in a while. A great mix of technical content and talks on the...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #409 - 28th October 2018
A short issue this week, with a few posts on decision making when adopting Kubernetes, and a full series of posts on the issue of alert fatigue and what you ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #408 - 21st October 2018
Starting off this week with a post on operability, a topic that probably deserves more focus that it normally gets when discussing new technology.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #407 - 14th October 2018
A few posts this week around process, both looking at working in a blameless culture, combining documentation needs and chatops and how to get the best out o...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #406 - 7th October 2018
Some good posts on the act of operations this week, from discussion of SRE to more details posts on service-level objectives, physical security and observabi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #405 - 30th September 2018
A spread of big picture and technical posts this week; from datacenter power usage and patterns for organisational change to building multi-region virtual ma...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #404 - 23rd September 2018
Kicking off with a few good social posts this week on sharing and on building up secure software practices. Then on to several posts on tooling and technolog...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #403 - 16th September 2018
A few posts this week got me thinking about the value of both reading and writing critques. It can often be hard to write, especially when you have the inten...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #402 - 9th September 2018
Several posts this week on the people and process side of operations; a great example service handbook, the evolution of ITSM, and several on the technical s...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #401 - 2nd September 2018
Apologies, I resent last weeks issue of the newsletter by accident. Here is today’s issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #400 - 26th August 2018
Serverless and data centre posts this week, along with discussions of the importance of software release processes, modern cloud forensic tools, configuratio...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #399 - 17th August 2018
Everything from the challenges of running stateful workloads on Kubernetes to tools for managing Kafka, via the problem with healthchecks and discussion of I...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #398 - 12th August 2018
Some good AWS tips this week, along with discussions of the evolution of continuous delivery and around building resilient systems.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #397 - 5th August 2018
Architecture, new tools, operational exercises and tips for managing teams adopting devops practices.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #396 - 29th July 2018
A few posts this week this an academic flavour; a survey looking into continuous integration practices and a collection of papers and research around resilie...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #395 - 22nd July 2018
Service mesh, digital transformation, chaos engineering and some advanced tips for commonly used tools like Terraform and Docker.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #394 - 15th July 2018
A fairly packed issue this week, with everything from moving back to monolithic applications, why tickets are the wrong way to manage IT operations, examples...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #393 - 8th July 2018
Some great posts this week on important topics, including the economics of serverless, management in organisations adopting devops, and the importance and ri...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #392 - 1st July 2018
Several security posts this week, along with a few Windows posts too. Plus how Devops and Cloud Native relate to each other, a look at Helm 3 and more.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #391 - 24th June 2018
A few good case studies of adopting modern infrastructure and devops practices this week, along with a couple of posts on the evolution of local development ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #390 - 17th June 2018
A fair bit of Docker content this week, mainly with it being DockerCon rather than because I happen to work there hopefully. But some other good posts on the...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #389 - 10th June 2018
A bit of a theme of practical container posts this week, with posts on Kubernetes as a cloud-migration strategy, tips for building Docker images and database...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #388 - 3rd June 2018
Several service management posts this week, as well as some useful advice on securing all those automation management tools we’re adopting. Several good tech...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #387 - 27th May 2018
A range of content this week on cost-reduction for Kubernetes clusters, devops influenced software development lifecycle, some devops history, testing server...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #386 - 20th May 2018
Lots of practical posts this week on security, observability, tips for building Docker images, an interesting serverless experience report and the importance...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #385 - 13th May 2018
The State of Devops survey is back for another year and I hope everyone can make some time to take it. The data, and resulting analysis, is of huge value to ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #384 - 6th May 2018
Lots of tools links this week, including entire new programming languages and a new polyglot VM. It’s clear the evolution of the practice of operations is ha...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #383 - 29th April 2018
I’ll be heading to KubeCon EU in Copenhagen next week and hopefully see a few readers there. I’ll try collect details on announcements and interesting talks ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #382 - 22nd April 2018
A mix of posts this week on operations and operations culture on one hand, and BPF, open tracing and automating CI pipelines on the other.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #381 - 15th April 2018
Some good posts on the basics this week, including continuous integration, technical debt and monitoring. Plus several posts on how Kubernetes integrates wit...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #380 - 8th April 2018
Posts on several core practices of continuous delivery this week, from not branching to feature flags to how to manage database migrations. Also several post...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #379 - 1st April 2018
Running the gamut of topics this week with some great posts on technical support, centralising traditional operations tasks, deployment tooling, the importan...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #378 - 25th March 2018
Some posts this week on classic ops problems; like database migrations and runbooks - as well as some discussions of modern development workflows using conta...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #377 - 18th March 2018
A range of posts this week, with everything from tips for choosing tools which which support teamwork to stories of successful network migrations and several...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #376 - 11th March 2018
Lots of tools this week (for deployment, managing functions as a service and conducting an open source license audit), as well as a mix of posts on canary de...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #375 - 4th March 2018
Application deployment, and building abstractions for developers managing applications, appears to be a theme at the moment - with several related posts this...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #374 - 25th February 2018
Several good posts this week on the reality of organisational change; practical tips for changing an IT organisation, getting developers on-call and swarming...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #373 - 18th February 2018
A selection of posts this week on some of the harder non-technical aspects of devops; from sociotechnical systems to why the relationship between compliance ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #372 - 11th February 2018
A busy week at Configuration Management Camp (still one of my favourite events) and a busy week for interesting posts as well, covering incident management a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #371 - 4th February 2018
A little late sending the newsletter this weekend as it’s the yearly visit to FOSDEM and Configuration Management in Brussels and Gent. Hopefully I’ll gather...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #370 - 28th January 2018
Tools, practices and operability articles this week. Next weekend is the annual open source extravaganza that is FOSDEM so looking forward to meeting a few f...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #369 - 21st January 2018
A range of content this week, from broadly applicable posts on patterns or process or people, to more specific stories of individual technologies and service...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #368 - 14th January 2018
A packed issue this week, with lots of posts and tools on everything from new serverless platforms to musings on microservices, team organisation, vendor sel...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #367 - 7th January 2018
One week into 2018 and we have the first big security issues with Spectre and Meltdown. A big shout out to the kernel engineers and others working to mitigat...
2017
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #366 - 31st December 2017
A relatively short issue this week, butt for those still looking for more to read I’d recommend catching up on all things sysadvent. https://sysadvent.blogsp...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #365 - 24th December 2017
A good mix of standards, criticism, talk of business value for technologists , application layer security and new tools. Hopefully something for everyone.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #364 - 17th December 2017
A selection of links this week from KubeCon, as well as a bunch of other non-Kubernetes related posts and tools for everyone else.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #363 - 10th December 2017
Just back home from Austin after a great KubeCon. I have lots of content from the conference that will have to wait until next week unfortunately, but we sti...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #362 - 3rd December 2017
I’m in Austin all this week for KubeCon and CloudNativeCon so please say Hi if you happen to be here too. Lots of service management content this week, along...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #361 - 26th November 2017
Several posts this week on adapting to modern systems architecture practices, including looking specifically at logging and monitoring, monorepos and multi-c...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #360 - 19th November 2017
A collection of posts on monitoring and on the importance of managing cost this week, along with a few good getting started tutorials and other posts. Enjoy.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #359 - 12th November 2017
A few hardware and networking posts this week, along with talk of cloud, serverless and continuous delivery with containers. Also a special mention for SysAd...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #358 - 5th November 2017
Fairly heavy on tools and architecture this week, with lots of details for anyone learning about building or running various flavours of container infrastruc...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #357 - 29th October 2017
A wide mix of content this week, with posts on IT governance, building teams around psychological safety, the divide between the devops community and the tra...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #356 - 22nd October 2017
A busy week for me at DockerCon and Velocity in London, with lots of other great devops events happening all over the world. A big thanks to all the event or...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #355 - 15th October 2017
Lots of events and conferences happening at the moment relevant to devops and devops weekly. If you see (or give) any particular talks that stand out please ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #354 - 8th October 2017
Several posts this week with content from workshops, classes and training sessions. I know just how much effort it takes to put together high-quality learnin...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #353 - 1st October 2017
Documentation, application firewalls, container automation, platform as a service, securing email and more this week. Something of a smorgasbord. Just a note...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #352 - 24th September 2017
Lots of good content this week but a couple of posts on documenting microservice based systems in particular stood out for me. I’d love to see more examples ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #351 - 17th September 2017
September and October always appear popular times for industry events, so expect lots of presentations and details from conferences over the next month or so...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #350 - 10th September 2017
Definitely a theme of organisational change this week, with posts on nudge theory, how to sell devops practices to your colleagues, building a reliability cu...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #349 - 3rd September 2017
Devops Weekly hit a bit of a milestone last week, with subscription to the newsletter crossing 25,000. Thanks to everyone who has stuck around over the past ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #348 - 27th August 2017
Interesting post this week about why devops practices appear to be catching on in the real world, along with academic research into post-incident reviews and...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #347 - 20th August 2017
Several good posts with real-world tips on operating microservices and containers this week, along with discussions of provisioning and deployment tools and ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #346 - 13th August 2017
Some solid advanced topics this week, with in-depth articles on packaging, code repository organisation and observability, and a discussion of immutable infr...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #345 - 6th August 2017
Several people at the moment are writing great posts codifying the process and techniques that have emerged over the past several years. This week we have gr...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #344 - 30th July 2017
Posts about the future of operation, the changing role of team leads in organisations adopting devops and lots of technical posts about debugging performance...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #343 - 23rd July 2017
Filesystems, change management, serverless and operations and lots of new container tooling to experiment with. Hopefully something for everyone this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #342 - 16th July 2017
A couple of posts from either end of the devops spectrum I feel this week. On one hand a detailed look at writing a business-focused business case for adopti...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #341 - 9th July 2017
Everything from architectural patterns to Serverless, via linux tracing tools, thoughts about the future of linux distributions, a great reading list for man...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #340 - 2nd July 2017
A fairly technology heavy issue this week, with discussion of tools to support on-call scheduling, load testing, Kubernetes management and interesting contai...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #339 - 25th June 2017
Lots of container tools this week, along with a solid set of posts on everything from the advantages of on-call to a few stories of tuning a search index and...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #338 - 18th June 2017
A bumper issue this week. After more than 6 years of sending Devops Weekly it’s still impressive to me just how much interesting content is published every w...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #337 - 11th June 2017
Lots of differently presented posts this week, with a mix of rich diagrams, infographics, code examples and even illustrations to explain complex topics. Som...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #336 - 4th June 2017
Two interesting posts this week on the art of cost control in cloud environments. This is particularly interesting coming from large organisations with lots ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #335 - 28th May 2017
From big-picture views of containers and networking, to interesting new tools, views on the evils of feature branching and experience reports of using var...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #334 - 21st May 2017
Lots of high-level posts this week, on trust in lean and devops, internal memos about digital transformation and the importance of asking why when it comes t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #333 - 14th May 2017
A packed issue this week with everything from security to software asset management and thoughts on testing to problems with how we monitor our systems. Hope...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #332 - 7th May 2017
Lots of talk of multi-cloud and lock-in this week it seemed, although mainly coming from proponents of certain technologies. Some interesting architecture po...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #331 - 30th April 2017
Lots of content around Serverless this week, mainly coming from the excellent ServerlessConf held last week in Austin. Along with that some good posts on dig...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #330 - 23rd April 2017
A packed issue this week with everything from service management to new container tools and views of devops as a movement to in-depth incident reports.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #329 - 16th April 2017
Some solid culture content this month, along with some low-level network talk and some of the new deployment tooling emerging around Kubernetes.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #328 - 9th April 2017
More operations content this week, with great posts on the importance of documentation, practical points about the four pillars of devops, what developers ca...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #327 - 2nd April 2017
Whether you consider yourself to work in IT, Digital, software development, security or some other job flavour, the variety of organisations interested in an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #326 - 26th March 2017
Thanks to the organisers of Pipeline and Scale Summit this week, both small events I was lucky enough to attend in London. Both excellent events with a focus...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #325 - 19th March 2017
A bunch of container and cloud related posts and tools this week, along with some tips for anyone involved with Devops transformation efforts or organising m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #324 - 12th March 2017
A bit of a theme around the use of cloud infrastructure this week, with several opinions on design considerations in light of outages, the use of serverless ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #323 - 5th March 2017
ITSM and Enterprise Architecture on one hand and serverless and SRE on the other, and some other excellent blog posts in between this issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #322 - 26th February 2017
A packed issue this week, with everything from security to containers and running better retrospectives to cloud pricing. Lots of interesting events coming u...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #321 - 19th February 2017
A slightly smaller than average issue this week due to a trip to the US and back (and the resulting timezone and airport related issues). Still some interest...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #320 - 12th February 2017
Several posts this week from last week’s Configuration Management Camp event. It’s always nice to catch up with folks from across the different communities a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #319 - 5th February 2017
One of the reasons for the continued interest in devops has been the increasing weight of evidence for adopting related practices. A big part of that has bee...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #318 - 29th January 2017
It’s just about the end of January, which means it’s time for FOSDEM and Configuration Management Camp in Belgium. If anyone else is going to be along do say...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #317 - 22nd January 2017
Pretty good mix of people (why silos emerge, operations debt, the importance of context) and technical (measuring worst case performance, proxies, lots of mo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #316 - 15th January 2017
A typical wide range of content this week, with tales of transforming large organisations alongside cross-compiling Docker images for ARM. I do sometimes won...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #315 - 8th January 2017
A bit of a bumper issue this week if I do say so myself. Lots of individual blog posts, videos from the excellent LISA16 conference, some interesting new too...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #314 - 1st January 2017
Happy new year everyone. A big thank you to all the people who read Devops Weekly, everyone who built or wrote something I included in the newsletter last ye...
2016
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #313 - 25th December 2016
A short issue today (well, it is Christmas day) but still some great content from the last week or so on everything from container networking, lessons from s...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #312 - 18th December 2016
We’re nearly to the end of 2016, which means at least a few people will be thinking back over the year, and about what 2017 will bring for the devops communi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #311 - 11th December 2016
So much good content this week, and that’s before you get to all the posts being written for AWS advent and Sysadvent. Go read all of them, and remember they...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #310 - 4th December 2016
Lots of good posts this week but a couple in particular stood out; on writing better alerts and creating more useful log files. Even with all the new technol...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #309 - 27th November 2016
A couple of handy low-level Linux tools included this week for logging and auditing. It’s interesting to see continued improvements on well-worn themes, alon...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #308 - 20th November 2016
Two sets of presentations from two very different conferences (KubeCon and DevSecCon) this week, all published within a week or so of the event and free for ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #307 - 13th November 2016
Posts on what the fundamentals of operations and the tradeoffs of automated vs manual testing, alongside technical posts on container clusters, continuous in...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #306 - 6th November 2016
A mix of content this week covering individual tools, technical underpinnings, more general practices and lots of interesting looking events coming up to att...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #305 - 30th October 2016
Mention of three events in this week’s issue; one in Nashville, one in New Zealand and the other in Cape Town, South Africa. The Devops community is definite...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #304 - 23rd October 2016
A bunch of technical posts this week which also contain lots of people and culture content. Whether it’s Serverless and security, or config management and sc...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #303 - 16th October 2016
I’ll be in San Diego next week for PuppetConf. Anyone else at the event definitely come and say Hi. And for everyone else, just a reminder that the next coup...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #302 - 9th October 2016
Shameless plug. I’m giving a talk at the upcoming PuppetConf event in San Diego at the end of the month, all about Puppet testing practices. If you’re a Pupp...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #301 - 2nd October 2016
A quick shout-out to all the people who send me links for the newsletter. Devops as a topic is very wide ranging and there is always more interesting content...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #300 - 25th September 2016
Several posts this week on automation and engineering efforts with physical hardware, as well as posts on serverless, unikernels and containers. Generalising...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #299 - 18th September 2016
A packed issue this week with lots of tools, news and views, interesting content from our sponsors, jobs and events. Hopefully something for everyone.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #298 - 11th September 2016
I realised I’m only 2 weeks away from issue 300 of Devops Weekly which is frankly a bit crazy. Thanks to all the readers, writers, sponsors, event organisers...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #297 - 4th September 2016
Some good soft-skills posts this week, including a great exploration of software estimation and a really honest post about the barriers to entry caused by ja...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #296 - 28th August 2016
I’ll be in Amsterdam next week for Software Circus - a conference on all things cloud native. The conference is now free too, so if you happen to be in the a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #295 - 21st August 2016
A slightly quiet issue this week as I’ve been on holiday. But still lots of great content on everything from packaging to highly-available database clusters ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #294 - 14th August 2016
Everything from command line user interface design to platform-driven reorganisations and discussion of approaches to cloud adoption to talk of the benefits ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #293 - 7th August 2016
As with most issues of the newsletter I’ve included a few links to new tools. I always appreciate it when along with the tool itself I find a blog post expla...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #292 - 31st July 2016
From containers and cloud to managing COTS products and a reminder that devops is much more than just technology. Enjoy.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #291 - 24th July 2016
A number of articles this week about devops in more traditional IT organisations. As time goes by It feels like devops is no-longer as strongly aligned with ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #290 - 17th July 2016
Hopefully something for everyone this week, or lots for people interested in everything. From serverless and function-as-a-service tools and discussions to t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #289 - 10th July 2016
A mixture of content on container and microservices, TLS, practical soft skills for developers and operators and 3 whole days of video from Monitorama. Hopef...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #288 - 3rd July 2016
It was great to make it to Devops Enterprise Summit this last week in London. This newsletter focuses on blog posts, conference talks and tools - which propo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #287 - 26th June 2016
This issue might be a bit heavy on content from Velocity and DockerCon, but luckily both events were excellent and contained lots of great talks. Normal serv...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #286 - 19th June 2016
Devops weekly is on US time for the next few issues as I’m out in Seattle for DockerCon and then onto Santa Clara for Velocity and Devops Days. If you’re aro...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #285 - 12th June 2016
Monitoring is one of those recurring topics for Devops Weekly, so I’m hugely happy to see the new book The Art of Monitoring is now available. https://www.ar...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #284 - 5th June 2016
The usual wide range of devops related content this week - distributed systems to remembering devops isn’t about change for it’s own sake, the meaning of ope...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #283 - 29th May 2016
Serverlessconf kicked off a bunch of interesting conversations on the internet this week about the serverless architectural style. I just wanted to say thank...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #282 - 22nd May 2016
Lots of interesting and varied tools this week, including novel or new approaches to well trod problems in the way of a new reverse proxy and load balancer i...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #281 - 15th May 2016
Lots for those of us interested in the culture and organisational change side of devops this week. An excellent essay on sharing, an article on what CAP theo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #280 - 8th May 2016
A pretty wide range of content this week; from in depth posts about how syscalls work to tips on how to embrace a security-minded culture, and from container...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #278 - 24th April 2016
Devopsdays London this week was a great event, in many ways it felt like Devopsdays Enterprise. The audience of people from banks, financial services as well...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #277 - 17th April 2016
Several stories of running data storage technologies this week from the venerable MySQL to the cutting edge Kafka. Lots of hard earned wisdom in tales of how...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #276 - 10th April 2016
A few posts this week reminded me about the power of screenshots, especially when talking about the internal tooling many organisations build when integratin...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #275 - 3rd April 2016
A bit of a change this week, Devops Weekly has a new sponsor! After talking with several interesting companies over the past month I’m happy to announce Vict...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #274 - 27th March 2016
This is the first issue of this newsletter to go to more than 20,000 subscribers. Which is pretty amazing if you ask me. Thanks to everyone who sends me inte...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #273 - 20th March 2016
One of the interesting things for me over the last 5+ years of observing the devops community is their are always more related groups getting involved. The f...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #272 - 13th March 2016
Production systems, service management, security, vendor selection, monitoring, deployment. Hopefully a little something for everyone this week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #271 - 6th March 2016
A pretty packed issue this week with some great longform pieces on deployment, metrics visualisation and the evolution of container management as well as int...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #270 - 28th February 2016
From chatops to unikernels and from getting started with application deployment to failure and human factors. Hopefully something for everyone this issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #269 - 21st February 2016
Karanbir Singh of the Centos project yesterday asked “Everyone wants to hire ops with 4+ yrs of experience. Where do they get the first 4 then ?” So started ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #268 - 14th February 2016
A couple of themes this week; several excellent posts on scaling teams, collaboration and standardisation and a couple of links from the academic community l...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #267 - 7th February 2016
A busy last week, thanks to everyone who helped run, spoke at or attended Configuration Management Camp in Gent. Lots of content from the conference below an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #265 - 31st January 2015
FOSDEM for the last few days and then Configuration Management Camp tomorrow and Tuesday should mean lots of content for next weekends issue. For this week w...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #264 - 24th January 2015
Next weekend is FOSDEM which means a explosion of related events in and around Belgium. As well as the main conference I’m aware of the FLOSS Community Metri...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #263 - 17th January 2015
A big mix of content this week covering interviewing and career development through team organisation and why flying an aircraft is similar to monitoring you...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #262 - 10th January 2015
Lots of interesting content this week, looks like folks have come back from the holiday energised. If you’ve written anything interesting, or are hacking on ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #261 - 3rd January 2015
The first issue of 2016 sees a range of posts from new tools to new arguments for working more closely together. It being January also means we’re only weeks...
2015
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #260 - 27th December 2015
A short issue this time as I’m very much on holiday for a few weeks. If anyone has any predictions for next year then let me know for the next issue.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #259 - 20th December 2015
This issue of the newsletter is dedicated to all the people spending a least some of the Christmas period on-call keeping everything running smoothly. Thanks...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #258 - 13th December 2015
With the end of the year in sight people often start thinking about the last year, and what 2016 will bring. If you’re writing a blog post about either of th...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #257 - 6th December 2015
I spent some time this week at the excellent ThingMonk IoT conference (thanks Fintan and James). One of the things that struck me was the overlap with the to...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #256 - 29th November 2015
It’s just about December, which means it’s nearly time for the return of the excellent SysAdvent. If you’ve not come across this before you should checkout o...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #255 - 22nd November 2015
Lots of containers this week, with content and discussions from DockerCon and ContainerSched front of mind. Other content covers some ideas about meetings an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #254 - 14th November 2015
A pretty packed issue this week, including writeups (with even more links) for the recent KubeCon and Devops Enterprise conferences. I’m heading out to Barce...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #253 - 8th November 2015
A small but hopefully well formed issue this week with content ranging from the latest technology (unikernels, pester) to avoiding single points of failure i...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #252 - 1st November 2015
Lots of content from the Velocity Conference this last week in Amsterdam. A big thanks to everyone who presented, helped organise or who I had interesting co...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #251 - 25th October 2015
More great conferences and more great content this week, with a few things from DevSecCon in London and from Devops Enterprise in SF. I’m at OSCON and Veloci...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #250 - 18th October 2015
Integrity is probably the theme in hindsight this week. If you haven’t already do read the first post about weak default cryptography and what you can do abo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #249 - 11th October 2015
For no apparent reason I have lots of solid security content this week, from an excellent crypto for developers post through presentations and new interestin...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #248 - 4th October 2015
I’m flying out to Portland for PuppetConf next week. Anyone who’s going to be there do come and say Hi. AWS re:Invent is also next week so if anyone is atten...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #247 - 27th September 2015
I attended the first WinOps conference this week, focused on Devops practices in Windows environments. The interesting part was how much of the audience was ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #246 - 20th September 2015
I mentioned last week it was conference season. This week’s issue features lots of content from event last week, in particular the excellent looking Automaco...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #245 - 13th September 2015
Conference season is in full swing, with container camp and software circus last week and operability, winops, automacon and more just in the next few weeks....
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #244 - 6th September 2015
I don’t know what it is about September and October but it feels like it’s wall-to-wall interesting events for pretty much the next couple of months. If you’...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #243 - 30th August 2015
One of the interesting things with being around the devops community for a bunch of years is watching and listening as common practices and themes emerge. Se...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #242 - 23rd August 2015
A whole mix of content this week with lots of tools and technical posts mixed with some interesting observations from reading postmortems, the start of a boo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #241 - 16th August 2015
A packed issue this week, with lots of news, events, jobs and tools - something for everyone hopefully. I’m also noticing that I’m starting to include more c...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #240 - 9th August 2015
Results from one survey (The Monitoring Survey 2015) and a request to complete another one (Ethical Obligations in Internet Operations) this week. It’s great...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #239 - 2nd August 2015
A fairly operations heavy issue with this, with discussions of software in production, monitoring, configuration management, system packaging and a few tools...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #238 - 26th July 2015
With the Open Container Project, and now the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, it’s interesting to see a move towards shared ownership, and the potential fo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #237 - 19th July 2015
Back on UK time this week so lots more content this week, across the usual wide range of topics. I’ve definitely been including less tools recently I’ve noti...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #236 - 12th July 2015
The Monitoring Survey 2015 closes at the end of this week. If you’ve not already taken it you should definitely head over to https://www.surveymonkey.com/s/m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #235 - 5th July 2015
I’m really looking forward to the Operability conference (mentioned below) later in the year as it promises to mix new and emerging tech with talks about act...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #234 - 28th June 2015
Apologies for the late arrival this week and the slightly abbreviated content. Travel and a bunch of other things caught up with me this week but hopefully t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #233 - 21st June 2015
With monitorama on this last week I have lots of monitoring content this week, including some interesting presentations, a few tools and a reminder to fill o...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #232 - 14th June 2015
The issue next week will likely be a little later that usual as I’m out in SF for Dockercon. If anyone is going to be around let me know, would be good to me...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #231 - 7th June 2015
Lots of good content this week on ITSM, security, containers, SSDs and more. Interesting thinking back to the early issues of this newsletter more than 4 yea...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #230 - 31st May 2015
A bit of a monitoring/performance/security feel this week - mainly due to Velocity conference this last week and partly as I’m heading to Infosecurity Europe...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #229 - 24th May 2015
One topic that comes up regularly in this newsletter, including in this issue, is testing infrastructure. I’m doing a bit of research so if you’re written an...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #228 - 17th May 2015
The first three posts this week are all about the broad impacts of the devops movement and adopting related practices. The community definitely keeps growing...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #227 - 10th May 2015
The first post this week is all about leadership, mentoring and team building - all hugely important aspects of embracing devops practices and culture. I’d l...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #226 - 3rd May 2015
Performance and monitoring, agile working practices, containers, configuration management, networks, security and compliance. Hopefully something for everyon...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #225 - 26th April 2015
A slightly shorter newsletter this week more to do with me being busy that anything else. If anyone was at Craft in Budapest or at the Open Source Data Centr...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #224 - 19th April 2015
One thing that has made putting together this newsletter relatively easy is just how open the community is, from Google publishing the Borg paper this week t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #223 - 12th April 2015
A packed issue this week with a scattering of presentations, examples of people adopting systems like Mesos and CoreOS, discussion of the changing role of th...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #222 - 5th April 2015
A pretty packed issue this week, if there is a theme it would be balancing adopting new technologies against tried and trusted approaches: with a few practic...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #221 - 29th March 2015
I was lucky enough to attend the latest Scale Summit event in London last week and had lots of good conversations about all things infrastructure. Thanks to ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #220 - 22nd March 2015
Doing the newsletter every week means that themes definitely emerge for some issues depending on what I’ve been reading that week. This week that means lots ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #219 - 15th March 2015
I’m constantly amazed at how the Devops Days events keep on growing. A quick look shows 9 events in the next 4 months, that’s more events that in 2011 or 201...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #218 - 8th March 2015
Conference season is obviously in full swing as I’ve found lots of presentations this week on topics from the future of operating systems to several looking ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #217 - 1st March 2015
I don’t tend to include links into the intro very often, but this one everyone should read. http://itrevolution.com/karojisatsu/. Burnout is a serious issue...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #216 - 22nd February 2015
A post this week, about managing a fleet of Mac desktops using Munki and Sal, reminded me I’d love to see some more posts about behind the scenes IT. I think...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #215 - 15th February 2015
The first post this week about operating microservices reminds me that it’s easier to find content about technical solutions than about operating models or h...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #214 - 8th February 2015
Config Management Camp is definitely one of my favourite events of the year. If nothing else the number of links in this weeks newsletter should reveal that....
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #213 - 1st February 2015
Just a quick thank you to all the people who have emailed me links for the newsletter over the years. If anyone writes any content or comes across anything t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #212 - 25th January 2015
Next week it’s FOSDEM in Brussels, and then on to Configuration Management Camp in Ghent. Hopefully I’ll see a few readers there.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #211 - 18th January 2015
The topic of whether devops needs a manifesto arose again this week. In my view devops has always just been a word under which lots of conversations can happ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #210 - 11th January 2015
A big shout out this week to Brightbox Cloud who have been supporting and sponsoring this newsletter for 3 years this week, back when no-one had heard of dev...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #209 - 4th January 2015
The first issue of 2015 means we’re only a month away from FOSDEM and Configuration Management Camp in Belgium. If you’re going to be at either let me know.
2014
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #208 - 28th December 2014
A short holiday version of the newsletter this week. A big thanks to all the people who have spent the last week or so on-call keeping the internet running i...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #207 - 21st December 2014
A bumper issue this week to see you through the holidays. Also lookout for a great discount on the excellent Lean Enterprise book. Oh and hopefully you’re st...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #206 - 14th December 2014
A short issue this week as I’ve mainly been offline or travelling since last Sunday. As luck would have it between Sysadvent and AWS Advent you should have l...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #205 - 7th December 2014
Quite a bit of variety this week, from some sad news to something purely comedic. Plus lots of talk of monitoring, documentation, on-call practices and acade...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #204 - 30th November 2014
I had huge fun at the New Directions in Operating Systems conference this week and have included a few related posts and presentations in this issue. Small, ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #203 - 23rd November 2014
I’m really looking forward to the New Directions in Operating Systems conference this week in London. If you’re going to be along let me know, I’d love to sa...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #202 - 16th November 2014
With all the renewed interest in Windows automation recently, I just wanted to say congratulations to Rob Reynolds on the success of the Chocolatey Kickstart...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #201 - 9th November 2014
I always like it went I have content for the newsletter that I could put under the titles culture, automation, measurement and sharing and this issues is def...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #200 - 2nd November 2014
So, 200 issues. Rather fittingly this issue is filled with content from last weeks 5th anniversary Devopsdays event #thankyoupatrick
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #199 - 26th October 2014
I’m writing this on from the train, on the way to Belgium for the 5th Anniversary of Devopsdays. Hopefully I’ll see lots of you there. For anyone who can’t m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #198 - 19th October 2014
I normally read the weeks links and pick out a theme, maybe something that a number of the posts or presentations discuss. This week the topics are all over ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #197 - 12th October 2014
Some great posts this week on teams, both structuring development and operations teams, communications and working together. It’s also only 2 weeks until the...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #196 - 5th October 2014
I talked at PupppetConf about how I think we’re still edging slowly towards infrastructure as code. A few of the links before point in that direction, with a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #195 - 28th September 2014
So, with newly released major security vulnerabilities in bash, AWS rebooting and lots of people at Puppet Conf, Icinga Camp and Surge it’s been a quite week.
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #194 - 21st September 2014
I’m out in San Francisco this week for PuppetConf, if anyone happens to be around do let me know. Because of all the travel this was going to be a short issu...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #193 - 14th September 2014
Back in the UK this week after two weeks in Portland, and heading to SF next weekend. Expect lots of good content from upcoming events in the next weeks - wi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #192 - 7th September 2014
As mentioned last week, this issue is going out a little later than usual as I’m currently in Portland, Oregon. It should be back to normal time next week, b...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #191 - 31st August 2014
Just a reminder that I’ll be in Portland for next weeks issue, so the newsletter will be arriving about 8 hours later that usual. Don’t panic. Also if you’re...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #190 - 24th August 2014
I’ve been on holiday this week so it’s a relatively short issue, but lots of interesting bits and pieces to read. Next Sunday is another attempt to write the...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #189 - 17th August 2014
Seeing the speakers being announced for the The DevOps Enterprise Summit makes me realise just how much interest there is in the approaches, philosophy and t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #188 - 10th August 2014
I think the reason I still look forward to putting together this newsletter each week is the variety, I do hope everyone else feels the same. This week we ha...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #187 - 3rd August 2014
Today’s issue is a little later than usual as I’ve been on holiday for a few days. Lots to catch up on, with lots of detailed posts about peoples individual ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #186 - 27th July 2014
Lots of tools this week, from infrastructure testing and development environments to log file parsing and monitoring dashboards. I’ve also included an academ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #185 - 20th July 2014
Some big personal news from me this week. After 3 years working for the UK government I’m leaving to work for Puppet Labs out of London from September. With ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #184 - 13th July 2014
One blog post and a few tools this week confirming something I’ve been seeing too; traditional networking is definitely becoming more interesting to the devo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #183 - 6th July 2014
Two of the featured tools this week (Puppet Explorer and Tesera) reminded me just how far we’ve come in only a few years with really nice looking user interf...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #182 - 29th June 2014
I’m writing this quickly from San Jose airport before flying back to the UK, which is why most people will be receiving this issue 8 hours or so later that u...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #181 - 22nd June 2014
A relatively short issue this week as I’m writing this in the airport before flying out to Santa Clara for Velocity and Devopsdays. Which should mean lots of...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #180 - 15th June 2014
Lots of docker shaped content this week after the fantastic looking DockerCon finished a few days ago. Next weeks issue may be a day or so late as I’m travel...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #179 - 8th June 2014
A couple of Devopsdays related posts this week made me head over to the Devopsdays site to see just how many events are happening. The map currently has 11, ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #178 - 1st June 2014
I occasionally get emails asking how to get something featured in Devops Weekly. It comes down to two things, either I find useful content or tools while I’m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #177 - 25th May 2014
Some weeks I spot a definite topic that links many of the posts and tools together. This week’s content is all over the place; human computer interaction, en...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #176 - 18th May 2014
Scaling continuous integration infrastructure, the release engineering disciple and challenges and solutions for devops adoption in the Enterprise. Lots of g...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #175 - 11th May 2014
A pretty packed issue this week, mainly due to all the excellent content from the recent Monitorama conference in Portland. As well as lots of monitoring we’...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #174 - 4th May 2014
The sheer variety of interesting content under the devops banner is still what keeps me putting together this email every week. Case in point, this week I fo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #173 - 27th April 2014
I’ve spent the last week on holiday in the lovely city of Budapest and at the Craft conference on software craftsmanship. Once the videos start coming out I’...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #172 - 20th April 2014
Lots of content from this ChefConf this week, along with a nice run of posts about why having developers focus on customers is probably a good idea, even if ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #171 - 13th April 2014
This issue of Devops Weekly is dedicated to everyone who spent a good portion of their week resolving issues arising from the Heartbleed OpenSSL bug. I’m gue...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #170 - 6th April 2014
Definitely the first issue of devops weekly where the first three news items are Windows related. At the recent Build conference it looks like Microsoft is m...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #169 - 30th March 2014
Lots of tools this week compared to the past few weeks, and two events that nicely sum up the growth of the devops community. On one hand we have the interna...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #168 - 23rd March 2014
Lots of talk of testing and of organisation design at the moment in the devops community, at least based on posts I read this week. Also I’m seeing more peop...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #167 - 16th March 2014
Lots of pretty in-depth discussions about configuration management, or at least configuration management tooling, this week. Lots of differing opinions, soli...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #166 - 9th March 2014
Lots of real world stories this week, including details of money and people and organisational structure. The devops community suddenly feels like it’s more ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #165 - 2nd March 2014
Devops weekly now has more than 10,000 subscribers. Given that when I started this newsletter 3 years ago probably only hundreds of people had even heard the...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #164 - 23rd February 2014
A shout out to all the folks organising and attending Scale 12x this weekend in LA. I haven’t had chance to pick up any content from what sounds like a great...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #163 - 16th February 2014
As an example of just how far the whole devops movement has come you need to look no further than the two job posts we have this week. One is for a US based ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #162 - 9th February 2014
Lots of configuration management content this week, much of it from the first Configuration Management Camp in Gent last week. I managed to go along and met ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #161 - 2nd February 2014
I’m writing today’s newsletter live from FOSDEM which has been the usual mix of interesting talks and interesting people. I’m then heading off to Configurati...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #160 - 26th January 2014
Another pretty mixed issue this week, with new trends in infrastructure to devops in large organisations to software defined networks. If anyone has topics t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #159 - 19th January 2014
It’s only a few weeks to go before FOSDEM, one of my favourite events of the year. Several days in Brussels, a huge range of talks on different subjects and ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #158 - 12th January 2014
Lots of everything this week; several tools, upcoming events, new jobs, blog posts and entire series of posts should keep everyone busy. If you would like to...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #157 - 5th January 2014
Lots of content this week as everyone seems to have spent at least some of the time over the holidays hacking on tools or writing blog posts. Anyone thinking...
2013
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #156 - 29th December 2013
A short issue this week I’m afraid, but still a few interesting posts and tools to investigate in-between preparing for new year. If anyone writes up their t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #155 - 22nd December 2013
For those of you on holiday this week here’s a bumper set of blog posts, tools and presentations to keep you busy in-between the festivities. A big shout-out...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #154 - 15th December 2013
You would think people would be starting to wind down for the holidays but the last few weeks have seen loads of interesting content. Lots of infrastructure ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #153 - 8th December 2013
I always write this introduction after writing the rest of the newsletter and often find it interesting if themes emerge in the included links. This week it ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #152 - 1st December 2013
With it being Thanksgiving in the US lots of readers should hopefully be having a relaxing weekend (unless you work in online retail I guess). A nice idea I ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #151 - 24th November 2013
Nice to see some good Windows open source software this week. Opserver looks a really nice monitoring system, and not just a derivative of Nagios or similar,...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #150 - 17th November 2013
I’ve spent the last week organising, talking at and mainly just attending both Devops Days and Velocity in London. Both events have been great, with lots of ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #149 - 10th November 2013
A busy week coming up, with Devops Days London on Monday and Tuesday, followed by Velocity in London for the rest of the week. If anyone is around at either ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #148 - 3rd November 2013
Lots of content for larger and more traditional organisations this week. From an open letter to an enterprise software vendor to talk of involving security c...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #147 - 27th October 2013
Several posts this week touching on service discovery in distributed systems. It feels like with easier to use tools like Serf, and lower level systems like ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #146 - 20th October 2013
Devops weekly now has over 8000 subscribers, with more signing up each week and with more and more mainstream articles, whitepapers or conferences talking ab...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #145 - 13th October 2013
Along with all the blog posts, talks and tools this issue we have lots of interesting Devops related jobs, from London to Nashville to anywhere in the world....
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #144 - 6th October 2013
I only included one tool link last week, but I’ve found five this week from handy utilities to entire applications or core infrastructure. One thing I still ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #143 - 29th September 2013
A little late again today as I spent the morning travelling to Denmark for GOTO. If anyone is around for the next few days in the lovely town of Aarhus do le...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #142 - 22nd September 2013
I’m just back from Berlin and the first Monitorama EU conference. First thanks to the organisers who put on a great event and second thanks to the speakers a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #141 - 15th September 2013
It’s the second Monitorama conference this coming week so hopefully lots of monitoring related content next weekend. If the last one in Boston was anything t...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #140 - 8th September 2013
The broad range of things under the Devops banner is becoming more and more apparent to me as I read everything from articles in Wired to white papers from e...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #139 - 1st September 2013
If you’re going to be in London in November then you should be planning for a week of devops events. Devops Days (11th and 12th), followed by Velocity (13th ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #138 - 26th August 2013
Apologies for the delay in sending this weeks Devops Weekly. I spent most of Sunday on a flight back from PuppetConf and decided to leave the newsletter unti...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #137 - 18th August 2013
I’m in San Francisco this coming week for PuppetConf. If anyone is around and wants to meetup let me know at @garethr on Twitter. If I’ve got the timing righ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #136 - 11th August 2013
Lots of content relevant to people working in large organisations this week. From risk management theatre to how to work devops into an ITIL minded organisat...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #135 - 4th August 2013
A bunch of interesting technology posts and tutorials this week along with a scattering of process and business content. In the tools section Minion (from Mo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #134 - 28th July 2013
A few good talks about deployment this week, as well as a scattering of security discussion, a deep dive into some hardware and more details about PuppetConf...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #133 - 21st July 2013
It’s interesting to see ecosystems emerge around certain tools. Both Chef and Puppet have had an active community for a while not just using the core tool bu...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #132 - 14th July 2013
Back from a busy few days at RAMP in Budapest talking about all things scaling and just in time to catch up with everything from Devops Down Under. Conferenc...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #130 - 30th June 2013
A bit of a mix of new tools, old tools, tutorials, presentations and introductions this week. Oh, and a new Linux based operating system with some ideas I’d ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #129 - 23rd June 2013
Another bumper issue; lots of talks, news, discussion and tools to keep people busy this week. I’m on the lookout for content from Devopsdays Santa Clara whi...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #128 - 16th June 2013
Velocity kicks off in just a few days. For all those heading to Santa Clara first off have a great time. Second, please email or tweet @garethr with any stor...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #127 - 9th June 2013
Much of the evidence we have at present for the benefits of Devops is personal or anecdotal. So it’s good to see more surveys and numbers from lots of projec...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #126 - 2nd June 2013
I think this might be one of the most packed issues of Devops Weekly for a while. I’ve been on holiday for most of the week but still found myself falling ov...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #125 - 26th May 2013
A devops as a concept gets more widespread I’m coming across and increasing number of posts about company structure. These posts might be about looking at ex...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #124 - 19th May 2013
Another full week of pretty much all types of content. I’m putting the blame on conference season being in full swing, with lots of content from RICON East a...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #123 - 12th May 2013
A glut of tools this week covering testing utilities, security configurations, monitoring dashboards and cloud management tools. Also a special mention for T...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #122 - 5th April 2013
Welcome to the nearly 500 new subscribers who have signed up in the last two weeks for Devops Weekly. It still amazes me how this community has grown over th...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #121 - 28th April 2013
ChefConf was last week so lots of good conference links this week. The keynote videos are already online too at http://www.youtube.com/user/Opscode. So no ex...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #120 - 21st April 2013
The march of Devopsdays through Europe continues with Paris this last week so several bits of related content. With Austin, Berlin, Mountain View and Amsterd...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #119 - 14th April 2013
Devops has always been about more than collaboration between developers and web operations and it’s great to see articles like the first one in this issue, i...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #118 - 7th April 2013
A busy week. Lots of interesting posts, jobs, events and tools to read up on. The recent release of Vagrant 1.1 with the new plugin and provider model appear...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #117 - 31st March 2013
Monitorama in Boston was amazing. Huge thanks to Jason Dixon and everyone else involved who organised, attended or sponsored the event. If you’re not interes...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #116 - 24th March 2013
Next weeks devopsweekly might be a little late. It might also be jam-packed with monitoring content. I’m heading over to Boston for the amazing looking Monit...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #115 - 17th March 2013
I’ve spent the last two days helping to organise the excellent Devopsdays conference in London. From the feedback I’ve seen so far everyone had as good a tim...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #114 - 10th March 2013
Fewer tools but an awful lot to read this week, including a few short books available for free online. If you skip everything else or just skim the outlines ...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #113 - 3rd March 2013
Conference season appears to have started in earnest again, which makes finding good content that little bit easier. Quite a few presentations this week, and...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #112 - 24th February 2013
Not the longest newsletter this week but lots of really good, well written, detailed posts that deserve reading. It’s nearly March, which means it’s just abo...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #111 - 17th February 2013
This community grew partly out of the first devopsdays event in Ghent. Looking at http://devopsdays.org/ now you’ll see 14 events this year organised already...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #110 - 10th February 2013
Logstash, one of the tools I’ve featured quite a few times in this newsletter has a book available, and a self published one at that. I’d love to see more se...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #109 - 3rd February 2013
This issue is coming live from FOSDEM in Brussels, which makes gathering interesting content from the past week quite easy. The sheer number of talks and new...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #108 - 27th January 2013
I’m really looking forward to the Belgium roadtrip this week. Puppetcamp, FOSDEM and the monitoringlove hack day one after the other. If anyone is going to b...
DEVOPS WEEKLY ISSUE #107 - 20th January 2013
The start of the year has certainly got people busy. Lots of interesting tools and events in particular this week, so lots of opportunities to meet up with l...