Community Picks·4yHeroku Is No Longer Free, Here Are The Best Alternatives
Heroku is a famous PAAS service that allows developers to deploy apps very easily and in various languages and frameworks. At the date of writing this post, 27 August 2022, Heroku does have a free tier to be used for learning purposes and for non-commercial apps like your own personal projects.
Community Picks·4yDevOps is Bullshit
DevOps started as a well-intentioned set of practices and culture, but it has devolved into an unholy beast of division and tunnel vision. Coding Coding is becoming more and more of a hodge-podge of cloud APIs. We should want to write and run less code, not run more code. The silos are a feature, not a bug.
Spacelift·4y44 Books for DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Engineers
44 Books for DevOps, Site Reliability, and Cloud Engineers & Architects are available online. The list includes a collection of free and paid books in various areas and links to them. If your favorite book isn’t mentioned, please drop a comment below.
Changelog·4yHow to Build Software like an SRE
The SRE has been doing this ‘reliability’ stuff for a little while now, at companies ranging from about 20 developers to over 2,000. It’s industry standard for a reason – wrangling dependencies in environments with tools like Chef or Ansible loses to these nice self-contained artifacts any day.
Semaphore·4y17 DevOps Metrics To Measure Success
17 DevOps Metrics To Measure Success Productivity in software development has always been tricky to measure. People don’t act the same when they feel observed, and it can create undue pressure. The CI pipeline’s average duration should be measured in minutes. We should aim for less than 10 minutes in order to keep developers engaged and code flowing.
