How Spotify’s Backstage Ticks All the Right Boxes
Exploring what it is that makes the open source framework for building developer portals so popular.
Latency and Throughput, Your Network’s Vital Signs
Analyzing these two metrics is the first step in making sure you’re using all the bandwidth that’s available to you.
What to Know When Planning a Hybrid Cloud
A comprehensive look at all the questions you have to ask—and answer!—as you design an architecture that combines public clouds and dedicated infrastructure.
How to Build Network Services in the User Space
Why we decided to process packets outside the OS kernel and what we’ve learned doing it.
How Not to Lose (Most of) Your Packets
Packet loss in cloud networks, what causes it and how to keep it under control in a distributed application.
It Isn’t Magic, It’s TCP: Demystifying Networking for Developers
How the Transmission Control Protocol works in the OS kernel to push packets to the right place and in the right order.
How to Win at Platform Engineering
What DevOps team leaders can do to establish a successful platform engineering practice.
Which Internal Developer Portal Will 10x Your Team’s Output?
Roadie? Port? Cortex? Something else? Here’s a straight-forward guide to the top portal solutions out there, including an apples-to-apples comparison.
The Tools for Controlling Cloud Cost and Their Limits
While there are best practices for keeping cloud costs under control, they only get you so far. But there is a way to go further.
Crossplane and Terraform: How They Differ, and How They Can Play Together
What you need to know about the two ubiquitous Infrastructure-as-Code tools.
Locking Down Your Cloud Network: The Basics
How to avoid exposing your enterprise network to the internet and other cloud network security best practices.