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Treading in Haunted Graveyards

At Honeycomb, we’ve often discussed the value of making software deployments early and often, and being able to understand your code as it runs in production. However, these principles aren’t specific to only your customer-facing software. Configuration-as-code, such as Terraform, is in fact code that needs to go through a release process as well. Lacking formal process around Terraform deployment means a de-facto process that generates reliability risk.

SREs can help Transform Enterprise IT

Transformation of IT Ops When I think of the term IT Ops I immediately think of Enterprise IT and the traditional attributes that make up this function – many of which are in the middle of an industry-wide disruption – and its associated impact. At LinkedIn, when we first looked at business process support, shadow IT and non-accounted-for IT spend, about 10 years ago, it was a bit of a revelation to me how the landscape had already changed by then.

The Atlassian Solution: Bringing Agile to IT

In a world of digital transformation and DevOps, the way that IT teams work is rapidly evolving. Is your IT team struggling to adapt to new ways of working? In this session we’ll share practical insights of how IT teams are adapting agile practices to open up better team collaboration while creating a learning culture that unlocks greater value. You’ll learn how customers are adapting their self-service, request fulfillment, incident and change IT practices.

3 Defensive Programming Techniques for Rails

Incidents happen all the time because of bad code deploys. You write some code that passes code review, it then is automatically shipped to production after a test suite passes, and BAM, an outage happens. This fairly common occurrence has ways to prevent it entirely. Using some simple ideas we can defend ourselves from the hidden mistakes that code reviews and chaos engineering sometimes won’t catch.

Serverless Summer School: Class is in session!

Now that you’re invited, here’s the lowdown: Starting this Wednesday, you get the unique chance to attend four weeks of live working sessions with some of the top minds in serverless. They’ll prepare you to build production-ready serverless applications with the best practices of AWS top-of-mind. Along the way, you’ll get the chance to earn awesome prizes as you unlock milestones like deploying a stack and finishing your app.

Kubernetes Master Class Preventive Security for Kubernetes Enterprise Deployments

The latest Kubernetes version provides many security-related enhancements and controls, but it is far from being secure by default. Kubernetes is a complex orchestration platform with many different implementations, across multi-cloud/hybrid environments. Configuring it to comply with security best practices and specific security requires time and expertise that most organizations don’t possess.