Some general Posts
As mentioned in a post a few months ago external link I have been working on a book about the various ways you can approach monitoring your Docker containers, I am proud to announce that it was published today by Packt Publishing external link . You can order your copy from the Packt website external link or Amazon external link . A free sample of the book can be found here external link .
Last night I did some I haven’t done for a while and watched the opening episode of a new Dragons Den external link series while it was being aired. After a short time I found myself less interested in what was happening on screen and more interested in what was happening to the contestants (this is after all a primetime game show isn’t it?) websites during what should be a predicted spike in traffic....
As someone who deals with the word “Cloud” as part of their day job it can get very confusing. When a client or colleague says “I want cloud” or “what about hosting it in the cloud” what does it mean? Well, in my line of work it could mean any of the following …. Virtual Machines hosted on a highly available hardware platform Instances hosted in a an auto-scaling available configuration Using Content Delivery Networks (CDN) for content Uploading static content Distributed Object Storage Software as a Service (SaaS) Platform as a Service (PaaS) Thats only a small list of what services which the word “Cloud” is used for....
As mentioned in a previous post I tend to send most articles I am interested in reading to Pocket external link so I can read them when I have time. Here is a selection of the most interesting “stuff” I have bookmarked over the last month or so …. How I Reverse Engineered Google DocsTo Play Back Any Document’s Keystrokes external link A Flock of Tasty Sources on How to Start Learning High Scalability external link AWS Best Practices — Enterprise Perspective external link A Rare Peek Into The Massive Scale of AWS external link Distributed systems for fun and profit external link Post Mortem: The One Where We Accidentally DDOSed Ourselves external link Docker in Production — What We’ve Learned Launching Over 300 Million Containers external link SimCity That I Used to Know external link
Its been an interesting few weeks. I woke up one morning to find around 70 emails, most of them from Twitter saying a tweet I had been mentioned in had been favorited, this was the source …. .@docker, Fig, @nginx Reverse Proxies and #CentOS 7 https://t.co/Eenl8b1g9r by @RussMckendrick via @mediaglasses — #DOCKERCON LIVE IS BACK! 🐳 (@Docker) October 13, 2014 …. yay. After spending a fews months talking about Docker external link at work external link it was good to get a mention....
I just noticed that the first post on this blog was made exactly a year ago today. While the layout and blogging engine has changed and I have not posted for extended periods of time happy birthday to me.
At least once a day I skim through a large number of blogs in my Feedly external link feed using Reeder 2 external link , when I see something which catches my eye I send it over to Pocket external link so it is sync’ed to all of my devices. Here are some of the posts I have saved for further reading …. Docker / PaaS PaaS for Realists external link Why is Docker the new craze in virtualization and cloud computing?...
I had registered the domain DevOps-SysAdm.in external link with the intention of creating a second Jekyll based site which was going to be a link dump for stuff. Instead I decided to use Tumblr external link as that seemed alot less hassle. So go on, head over & follow external link . Also, you can submit stuff external link