Increasing Use of SLOs to Enable Observability
Observability is a growing discipline among most IT and operations departments. To release stable software faster, operators need continuous visibility into metrics like performance, uptime and availability. As a result, engineers are ...
Does GraphQL Introduce New Security Risks?
The GraphQL query language is an excellent tool for increasing the ease of data sharing. The premise is that you request the fields you need in a single bundled request, avoiding multiple ...
Smoothing the Transition From REST to GraphQL
Since its open source release in 2015, GraphQL has taken the development world by storm. GraphQL, the query language originally developed by Facebook, is a big boon for frontend developers, as it ...
Shedding Light On Toil: Ways Engineers Can Reduce Toil
It comes in many shapes and sizes and is embraced as a necessary evil. It lurks in the shadows, emerging now and again to stealthily creep into our workflows, where it feasts ...
What’s the Difference Between SLI, SLA and SLO?
If you're just getting into site reliability engineering (SRE) or platform engineering, you've probably come across a bunch of new terminologies, like SLI, SLA and SLO. These benchmarks are commonly referenced in ...
Not Totally Buying Web3? You’re Not Alone
The interest in Web3 is heating up. We've seen major excitement around blockchain and new Web3 protocols that are poised to reinvent the web as we know it. But it's hard to ...
How DevSecOps Teams Can Level Up
In 2019, I wrote a post detailing the traits of DevSecOps—the practice can be defined as the process of security automation in which IT and security are more de-siloed. DevSecOps introduces a ...
Dagger: Standardizing CI/CD is the Holy Grail of DevOps
Continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) has become a hallmark of quick software release life cycles. Nowadays, many teams support CI/CD pipelines for their software, offering a repeatable pathway to build, test ...
Why the Built World Needs Standard APIs
Lately, new ESG initiatives have come front-and-center as companies seek to contextualize and limit their business's impact on the environment. This is especially true for the built world—a term that refers to ...
Day in the Life of a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE)
By now, most of us are familiar with the concept of site reliability engineering (SRE). The term was originally coined by Google and SRE has been gaining traction in recent years as ...
