DevOps&SRE Library

Is there really any value in setting service level indicators and objectives?

A checklist of anyone practicing Site Reliability Engineering

I recently started using Terraform Cloud but discovered that the getting started tutorial which describes how to integrate it with Amazon Web Services (AWS) suggested using IAM user credentials. This is not ideal as these credentials are long-lived and can lead to security issues.

How Terraform's setunion() disregards ordering.

When we started building Atlas a couple of years ago, we noticed that there was a substantial gap between what was then considered state-of-the-art in managing database schemas and the recent strides from Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) to managing cloud infrastructure.

In this post, we review that gap and show how Atlas – along with its Terraform provider – can bridge the two domains.

Today, I am publishing a guest post from Andy Warfield, VP and distinguished engineer over at S3. I asked him to write this based on the Keynote address he gave at USENIX FAST ‘23 that covers three distinct perspectives on scale that come along with building and operating a storage system the size of S3.

A simplified DNS server with a RESTful HTTP API to provide a simple way to automate ACME DNS challenges.

Learn how out of memory events created challenges for our team, and how we solved them.

What is it? How does it work? When to use it and when not to use it?

Reliable software design is a discipline that involves a careful balance of numerous principles, each of which is intended to ensure the development of high-quality software that meets the needs of users and stakeholders.