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·May 25

What do we mean by ‘High Availability’ in the Cloud?

Summary This article is intended to provide an overview of high availability in the cloud, along with the rough levels of costs to achieve different targets of availability like five nines, as well as recommendations for how to think about availability as an engineering organization. Availability overview Availability is usually expressed as a…

Incident Response

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What do we mean by ‘High Availability’ in the Cloud?
What do we mean by ‘High Availability’ in the Cloud?
Incident Response

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Real Kinetic Blog

·Oct 5, 2020

A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 3

In Part 1, I discussed the important aspects of a good incident management practice including effective communication, clearly defined stakeholders, and getting timely resolution. In Part 2, we explored the key tactical aspects of incident response. …

Incident Response

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A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 3
A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 3
Incident Response

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·Oct 5, 2020

How we built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue

We’re not building a generic notes app. We’re also not building an app for everyone. We are building a product that reduces the cognitive load for people with lots of meetings. Something that enables people with lots of context switching to ensure they don’t miss follow-ups. Something that makes relevant…

Meeting Notes

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How we built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue
How we built an app to fix our own meeting fatigue
Meeting Notes

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·Aug 4, 2020

A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 2

In Part 1, I discussed the important aspects of a good incident management practice including effective communication, clearly defined stakeholders, and getting timely resolution. Now let’s dig into some tactical considerations of incident response. Before you can give quality updates during an incident, you need to have good information to…

Incident Response

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A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 2
A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 2
Incident Response

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·Jun 1, 2020

A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 1

Shit happens. No amount of planning, preparation, or conservative practices can prevent incidents. Some items are simply outside of our control and it isn’t possible to plan for every imaginable scenario. Low probability events will still occur. What we can do is develop effective incident management practices so that we…

Incident Response

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A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 1
A Crash Course on Incident Response, Part 1
Incident Response

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·Aug 20, 2019

Choosing the Right GCP Compute Platform

When running on a cloud platform such as GCP, there are many ways to build an application. Google offers a comprehensive range of options spanning from fully serverless options, such as Firebase, to dedicated VM hosts, known as sole-tenant nodes. …

Cloud Computing

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Choosing the Right GCP Compute Platform
Choosing the Right GCP Compute Platform
Cloud Computing

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·Jul 30, 2019

GCP vs. AWS: A Manager’s Guide

This post is a follow-up to our summary of the differences between AWS and GCP. To summarize: AWS is more of an “ops engineer’s cloud”, GCP is more of a “software engineer’s cloud.” This post is meant to provide a real example you can follow along with. …

AWS

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GCP vs. AWS: A Manager’s Guide
GCP vs. AWS: A Manager’s Guide
AWS

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·May 30, 2019

Try it now Joe: avoiding costly mistakes with admin portals

When you are building a new application or service, how do you change runtime settings and configuration? How do you enable new features? How do you debug data issues? Do you manually change settings in the database? Do you handle all configuration via command flags? Do you connect your database’s…

DevOps

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Try it now Joe: avoiding costly mistakes with admin portals
Try it now Joe: avoiding costly mistakes with admin portals
DevOps

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·Feb 18, 2019

Making Sense of Environments

Determining how to structure your environments is a frequent topic of discussion for us. It comes up in almost every client engagement we have and we have needed to make these decisions ourselves many times. We frequently see two patterns. One option is to have everyone, or large groups, bucketed…

DevOps

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Making Sense of Environments
Making Sense of Environments
DevOps

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·Jul 23, 2018

Why Google App Engine

Google App Engine Standard (GAE) was released in mid 2008. It was a much simpler, much more limited version of the GAE available today. Building applications took real commitment, but if you stuck it out and learned the nuances it was — is — nearly magical. The problem is that…

Google Cloud Platform

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Why Google App Engine
Why Google App Engine
Google Cloud Platform

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