Tools to explore BGP – Yesterday there was a big Facebook outage caused by BGP. I’ve been vaguely interested in learning more about BGP for a long time, so I was reading a couple of articles.
What’s an SRE? – Easy, right? Well… how is an SRE different from a developer or a DevOps engineer? Is site reliability engineering an independent team, or do they work as part of other teams? Here’s a definition or two.
What is expected in the SRE role? – What are the top responsibilities of an SRE? Here’s the result of analyzing 30 job postings from major companies like Google, Twitter, Slack, and more.
I figured out how DMARC works, and it almost broke me – How to prevent email spoofing on your domain, using an unholy combination of silly standards.
7 GitHub projects to supercharge your Docker practices – Here’s a list of 7 GitHub projects which can make your Docker workflow better.
12+ Github Repositories to Help You Ace Your Job Interview – a list of GitHub repositories that will assist you in preparing for your next technical/coding interview.
Filling in knowledge gaps – In this post, Julia Evans talks about a “backwards” but common approach to learning programming—starting projects without fully understanding what you’re doing and filling in missing knowledge as you go along—and explains how learning abstractions first causes these knowledge gaps. Julia has a better way to teach (and learn) programming.