devops Archives

code-for-a-living May 16, 2022

Stack under attack: what we learned about handling DDoS attacks

When the bots came for us, we strengthened our defenses. Here's what we learned about parrying a few DDoS attacks.

Josh Zhang Staff Site Reliability Engineer

code-for-a-living December 21, 2021

“This should never happen. If it does, call the developers.”

If there is one thing developers like less than writing documentation, it's responding to unnecessary escalations.

Thomas A. Limoncelli Site Reliability Engineering Manager

se-stackoverflow December 13, 2021

A conversation about how to enable high-velocity DevOps culture at your organization

Recently, Stack Overflow’s Chief Product and Technology Officer, Teresa Dietrich, sat down with Justin Stone, Senior Director of Secure DevOps Platforms at Liberty Mutual, for a conversation about building a high-velocity DevOps culture.

Eira May Content Writer

code-for-a-living September 8, 2021

Observability is key to the future of software (and your DevOps career)

Observability platforms enable you to easily figure out what’s happening with every request and to identify the cause of issues fast. Learning the principles of observability and OpenTelemetry will set you apart from the crowd and provide you with a skill set that will be in increasing demand as more companies perform cloud migrations.

Greg Leffler

code-for-a-living May 24, 2021

How developers can be their own operations department

Many companies run parallel development and operations organizations. But what if you just ran one team that did both?

Daniel Orner

podcast March 19, 2021

Podcast 322: Getting Dev and Ops to actually work together

How to create a positive feedback loop between your developers and your SRE team.

Ben Popper Director of Content

code-for-a-living June 10, 2020

The rise of the DevOps mindset

DevOps has become one of those buzzwords with many conflicting definitions. What’s for certain is it’s on the rise. In our 2020 developer Survey, around 80% of the respondents believed that DevOps is at least somewhat important. We take a look at the phenomenon, some definitions, and talk to our engineers about some of the…

Medi Madelen Gwosdz Content Strategist - Former

code-for-a-living February 12, 2020

When laziness is efficient: Make the most of your command line

DevOps job posts often ask for automation skills, which is a positive way of asking for someone who’s professionally lazy in a way that results in efficiency. The good news is that developers can also learn a few tricks from the land of ops to make their days easier and their work better.

Breanne Boland