Lately in Cloud Development — Aug 2017
A monthly recap of the developer articles I found most interesting.
I’m trying a slightly different formula this month by organizing the articles under headings to try and give folks who have specific interests a quicker way to find the links they want. Let me know your thoughts in the comments.
Cloud Providers
Amazon Web Services joins the Cloud Native Computing Foundation — what does it mean?
Love it or hate it you can’t escape Amazon. A thoughtful look at why Amazon joined the CNCF and what it might mean.
Microsoft, Red Hat Team for Windows Containers, SQL Server on OpenShift
What started as an surprising partnership deepens with Red Hat OpenShift able to manage Windows containers, OpenShift running on Azure and SQLServer on RHEL and OpenShift.
Kubernetes at GitHub
For those who have followed GitHub’s rise this is an interesting read covering why they have chosen k8s and some advice on how to do it.
Tools
My Docker Cheat Sheet
Aymen El Amri
Does what it says on the tin…ideal for getting into Docker.
@▲ZEIT or Hyper — a new Heroku emerging?
I’ve been tracking Zeit for a bit and it’s very cool but hadn’t heard of hyper. Great to see people obsessing about developer experience!
Introducing kube-spawn
Interested in trying Kubernetes but daunted by the idea of setting up a cluster and running a microservices app? This kube-spawn tutorial helps.
Container Resource Consumption — Too Important to Ignore
Michael shows why k8s resources are critical to manage (manually for now) and introduces the in-process work happening to bring auto-scaling to k8s.
Debugging DNS
Ole Michaelis
Working at a DNS company for a time really educated me on how important this foundational technology is. Learning to debug it may save your bacon…
Process
The SRE Model (At Google)
Fascinating article on how Google handles SRE and specifically why the fact that it’s optional is actually good for their developers and teams.
Why GitHub Can’t Host the Linux Kernel Community
Detailed and interesting article on the complexities of handling huge open source communities and why GitHub is not always the answer.
Designing a Microservices Architecture for Failure
With more moving parts it stands to reason that microservices surface area for failure is high. This is a helpful take on how to embrace that and design for failure.
Developer Evangelism and GitHub Metrics
A fun post that explains why GH stars are generally a vanity metric and offers some alternatives to measure project and community uptake.
Oh Hai GitOps. What is GitOps?
It would be silly and overly simplistic to say GitOps is what happens to infrastructure-as-code when it grows up…but I just did.
Continuous integration vs. continuous delivery vs. continuous deployment
Sten Pittet
I just discovered this article this week although I suspect it’s much older. But a good, clear comparison of these overloaded terms is still worth the read.
