• A Distributed Systems Reading List: Good collection of things to think about in distributed systems theory like concensus and failure, clocks and even the network. Fallacies of distributed computing is in here too! (Network is homogenous, bandwidth is infinite, latency is zero, …)
  • 8 ways to speed up your Ansible playbooks: There’s a very neat profiler built into ansible that I need to remember exists. :)
  • Traefik and Docker: A Discussion with Docker Captain, Bret Fisher: A post about traefik
  • Announcing Traefik Proxy v3.0 RC1: Another post about traefik. I love this little proxy server! :)
  • What does it mean to silence an alert: This is important to consider for every new system notification - when should it run, when should it alert, whether a notification should be considered an observation (review the next business day) or urgent consideration (look into it now). I don’t love the idea of deferring a notification until later because you lose the relevant timestamp for an observable event. Easier to just make the non-urgent bucket not paging or angry …