Google infrastructure for everyone else
Five questions for Björn Rabenstein: Insights on Kubernetes, Prometheus, and more.
Brian Anderson
Brian Anderson, Infrastructure and Operations Editor at O’Reilly Media, covers topics essential to the delivery of software — from traditional system administration, to cloud computing, web performance, Docker, and DevOps. He has been working in online education and serving the needs of working learners for more than ten years.
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Database reliability engineering
Five Questions for Laine Campbell about building dependable databases.
Hallmarks of a good technical leader
Five Questions for Camille Fournier about the challenges engineers face when transitioning to managers, and how to foster great technical leadership.
Understanding the value of distributed tracing
Five questions for Ben Sigelman about adopting distributed tracing tools and optimizing performance of complex, distributed systems.
eBPF and systems performance
Five questions for Brendan Gregg about improving the performance of Linux systems.
Understanding container networking
Five questions for Lee Calcote on the scaling and performance of container architectures.
The power of scriptable load balancers
Five questions for Emil Stolarsky on moving logic to the edge of your systems.
Reliability with Kafka
Five questions for Gwen Shapira about how Kafka can enable business agility.
Using Docker in production
Five questions for Laura Frank about orchestration, security, and beyond.
Understanding the Kubernetes ecosystem
Five Questions for Sebastien Goasguen about Kubernetes and the cloud native tools that support it.
Top 8 systems operations and engineering trends for 2017
What to watch for in distributed systems, SRE, serverless, containers and more.
HTTP/2: Leveraging the modern web
The O’Reilly Podcast: Stephen Ludin discusses how to get started with HTTP/2.
Security and frontend performance: Bridging the gap
The O’Reilly Podcast: Sonia and Sabrina Burney discuss how to provide a secure and fast customer experience
ChatOps: Supercharging DevOps with group chat
The O’Reilly Podcast: Jason Hand discusses how to get your team started with ChatOps.
Systems engineering and the customer experience
Five questions for Caskey Dickson: Insights on the changing role of IT ops.
Understanding the ELK stack
Five questions for Rafał Kuć: Insights on what sets the ELK stack apart from other log management solutions, common user pitfalls, and tips for getting started.
Capturing the performance of real users
Five Questions for Philip Tellis: Insights on the organizational benefits of RUM, and new techniques for measuring user performance and emotion.
Building bridges with DevOps
Five Questions for Katherine Daniels: Thoughts on adopting DevOps effectively, the importance of empathy, and new essential skills for today’s ops professionals.
Why are service workers so great for web performance?
Five Questions for Max Firtman: Thoughts on the offline web, service workers, and the future of mobile performance.
The Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) project: What lies ahead?
Five questions for Malte Ubl: Thoughts on web performance and how to get started using AMP.
Running Consul at scale: Service discovery in the cloud
Five questions for Darron Froese: Thoughts on service discovery, Consul, and the future of IT infrastructure.
Linux performance: Tracing the cloud
Five Questions for Sasha Goldshtein: Thoughts on dynamic tracing, performance tools, and performance optimization in the cloud.
What is successful automation?
Five Questions for Kief Morris: Thoughts on infrastructure as code and the future of infrastructure automation.
Thinking with containers: 3 tips for moving to Docker
The O’Reilly Podcast: Sean P. Kane discusses how to get your team using Docker in the real world.
Five questions for James Turnbull
James Turnbull shares insights on operations, culture, and monitoring.
Network virtualization and efficient mobile apps
The O’Reilly Podcast: Guy Rosenthal on network virtualization.
How to make performance engineering work for your organization
The O’Reilly Podcast: Mohit Verma discusses performance engineering and how to implement it.