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Devops
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Nominal: AI agents for autonomous production incident response
Nominal is AI agents that read your code, watch your infra, and fix production before you wake up — eliminating on-call by 2026. Early access, integrates with AWS/Cloudflare/Vercel/Fly.io and more.
Readout: dev environment dashboard for macOS
Readout is a macOS dev environment dashboard that replaces multiple terminal tabs with a single at-a-glance view. Still in beta (v0.0.11), but the premise is consolidating dev environment state into one interface.
SOPS: Secrets OPerationS
SOPS (Secrets OPerationS) encrypts secret files using cloud KMS or PGP/age keys while keeping key names visible for diffs and version control. It's the standard tool for storing encrypted secrets in git without a centralized secrets server.
Secrets Management Overview
A comparative overview of 10 secrets management tools across on-premises, SaaS, and hybrid deployment models, from open-source options like Ansible Vault and Conjur to commercial platforms like HashiCorp Vault, Doppler, and Akeyless.
Piku: The Tiniest PaaS You've Ever Seen
Piku is a tiny self-hosted PaaS that lets you git-push to deploy to your own servers — a minimal Heroku-style experience with no containers required. Under 2000 lines of Python, runs on any Linux server.
Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions
Blacksmith's guide to Docker layer caching in GitHub Actions — covering the different cache backends (inline, registry, gha), when each works, and how to get 2x faster builds. Practical guide to a topic where bad defaults waste significant CI time.
Mazzle: Pipelines as Code for DevOps
Mazzle is a pipelines-as-code tool for building large, complicated, consistent environments — define infrastructure and build pipelines declaratively, run them as a server. An early-generation IaC-adjacent tool predating Terraform's dominance.
Hosting a Static Site on Fly.io with Nix and Caddy
A walkthrough of hosting a static site on Fly.io using Nix for reproducible builds and Caddy as the web server — an elegant stack for anyone who wants declarative, reproducible deployments without the complexity of Kubernetes or the cost of AWS.
abcdesktop.io: Cloud Native Desktop
abcdesktop.io is a cloud-native desktop environment running on Kubernetes — a full web-accessible desktop with Linux applications delivered via browser. Think VDI built on containers rather than VMs.
Linux SysOps Handbook
A concise practical handbook for Linux system operations — covering process management, networking, storage, user administration, monitoring, and shell scripting. A solid on-the-job reference for engineers who need to administrate Linux servers.
The Twelve-Factor App
The Twelve-Factor App is a methodology for building cloud-native SaaS applications, synthesized from Heroku's experience with hundreds of deployed apps. Canonical reference for why config should live in env vars, why logs should be streams, and why stateless processes matter.
How to Set Up a Practically Free CDN
A GitHub gist guide to setting up a practically free CDN for personal projects using Cloudflare and free-tier object storage. Covers the stack for serving static assets globally without paying enterprise CDN prices.
How to Back Up Your Git Repositories
A Medium guide on backing up git repositories — covering bare clone strategy, rsync to external storage, and hosting your own Gitea/Gogs instance. Addresses the risk of losing code when hosting platforms go down or accounts get banned.
Cleaning Up Your Postgres Database
Crunchy Data's guide to PostgreSQL database maintenance — identifying bloat, reclaiming space with VACUUM, finding unused indexes, and cleaning up dead connections. Practical operations reference for keeping a Postgres database healthy.
hyperctl: Kubernetes and Docker on Mac and Windows
hyperctl is a CLI tool for running lightweight Kubernetes and Docker clusters on Mac and Windows using native hypervisors — a faster alternative to Docker Desktop and Minikube for local Kubernetes development.
PoWA — PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer
PoWA (PostgreSQL Workload Analyzer) is a real-time statistics and workload analysis tool for PostgreSQL — collects query statistics, visualizes slow queries, and helps identify index and configuration improvements. A targeted alternative to generic APM tools for Postgres-specific performance work.
Ryan @ FutureStack13
Ryan attending FutureStack13, New Relic's developer conference in San Francisco, October 2013. A touchpoint during the Zipfian Academy period — monitoring and observability were becoming mainstream DevOps concerns.
How to Design Useful Monitoring Graphs and Visualizations
A guide to designing useful monitoring graphs and dashboards — distinguishing signal from noise, choosing the right chart type, and setting alert thresholds. The operational side of data visualization that analysis-focused tutorials skip.
Get Started: Ambari for Provisioning, Managing and Monitoring Hadoop
Hortonworks' getting-started guide for Apache Ambari — the web-based Hadoop cluster provisioning and monitoring tool that aimed to make Hadoop operations accessible without deep Linux/Hadoop expertise. An important piece of 2013 Hadoop ecosystem tooling.
My First 5 Minutes On A Server; Or, Essential Security for Linux Servers
Bryan Kennedy's definitive guide to the essential security hardening steps for a new Linux server — create a non-root user, set up SSH keys, disable root login, configure ufw, enable automatic updates, install fail2ban. One of the most bookmarked sysadmin articles of its era.
Cloud 66 — Code to Cloud in 5 Minutes
Cloud 66 is a deployment and infrastructure management platform that handles production operations across any cloud or bare metal — zero-downtime deploys, auto-scaling, managed databases, no vendor lock-in. Fills the gap between PaaS simplicity and full DevOps control.
Getting Started with Amazon EC2
Paul Stamatiou's 2012 getting-started guide to Amazon EC2 — launching instances, SSH access, security groups, and basic server setup. Representative of the era when 'cloud' meant learning EC2 from scratch with no managed services.
A Rough Guide to Keeping Your Website Up Through High Traffic
Rainforest's 2012 guide to keeping a web application running through traffic spikes — covering CDN, caching, database connection pooling, and graceful degradation. Early practical devops writing from the era before managed auto-scaling became trivial.
Deploying Flask with uWSGI and nginx on Ubuntu
A 2012 tutorial on deploying Flask applications behind nginx using uWSGI as the application server on Ubuntu. The canonical stack for Python web apps before Docker and cloud deployment made it simpler — and still the right choice for self-hosted production Flask.
Deploying ElasticSearch with Chef Solo
An early 2012 tutorial for deploying Elasticsearch using Chef Solo — a document from when both Elasticsearch and infrastructure-as-code were early in their mainstream adoption curves. Shows the 2012 devops toolchain before Ansible and Terraform emerged.