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Practical resources about devops for software engineers.

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Automating Infrastructure and Delivery

DevOps bridges the gap between writing code and running it in production. Containerization, CI/CD pipelines, infrastructure as code, and observability are no longer optional — they are table stakes for modern engineering teams.

Find practical recipes for building Docker images, writing GitHub Actions workflows, deploying to Kubernetes, managing Terraform state, and setting up Prometheus monitoring. Each guide is tested against real cloud environments and includes troubleshooting tips.

intermediate

On-Call and Incident Response Playbook

A practical playbook for on-call engineers: triage, escalation, communication, and postmortems....

intermediate

OpenTelemetry Guide: Traces, Metrics and Logs

A practical guide to OpenTelemetry in production: instrumentation, collectors, sampling strategies,...

intermediate

Platform Engineering — Building Internal Developer Platforms

A practical guide to platform engineering: IDP concepts, golden paths, self-service infrastructure,...

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intermediate

Service Mesh — Istio, Linkerd, and Sidecar Architecture

A practical guide to service mesh: what it is, when to adopt it, core concepts (sidecar, mTLS,...

intermediate

Site Reliability Engineering

A practical guide to SRE: defining SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs, managing error budgets, toil reduction,...

beginner

Technical Documentation Strategy: Docs as Code

A practical guide to treating documentation as code: versioning, review workflows, structure, and...

intermediate

Terraform Best Practices: Modules, State, and Workspaces

A practical guide to Terraform best practices: module design, remote state management, workspaces,...

intermediate

Complete Guide to AWS Cost Optimization

Reduce AWS spend 30-50% with EC2 right-sizing, Spot, Reserved Instances, Savings Plans, S3...

intermediate

Alert Management: On-Call Alerting That Works

A practical guide to alert management: cut alert fatigue, set severity levels, design escalation...

advanced

Complete Guide to Observability with the Grafana Stack

Set up the full Grafana observability stack: Prometheus, Loki, Tempo, Alloy and Grafana with a...

intermediate

Incident Response Process: Step-by-Step Guide

Step-by-step incident response process: severity levels, incident commander roles, communication...

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intermediate

Log Aggregation — Centralize, Search

A practical guide to log aggregation: structured logging, shipping strategies, retention policies,...

intermediate

Metrics and Dashboards: A Prometheus & Grafana Guide

A practical guide to metrics and dashboards: instrumenting applications, choosing metric types,...

intermediate

Blameless Postmortems: Learning from Incidents Without Blame

A practical guide to blameless postmortems: timelines, root causes, follow-ups, and building a...

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intermediate

Web Performance Optimization Guide

A thorough guide to optimizing web application performance for better Core Web Vitals and user...

intermediate

API Rate Limiting — Design Fair and Useful Throttling

A practical guide to API rate limiting: token bucket, leaky bucket, sliding window algorithms,...

intermediate

Capacity Planning — Forecast, Scale

A practical guide to capacity planning for cloud and on-premise infrastructure: demand forecasting,...

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intermediate

Cloud Cost Optimization: A Complete Program Guide

A practical guide to cloud cost optimization: right-sizing, reserved capacity, spot instances,...

advanced

Disaster Recovery: RTO, RPO, and Resilient Recovery Runbooks

A practical guide to disaster recovery planning: defining RTO and RPO, backup strategies,...

advanced

Complete Guide to Secrets Management

Manage application secrets securely in production: Vault, AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes secrets,...

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