Chris Dodds articles - 18 total
Monitor available IPs with Lambda and Cloudwatch
I ran into a situation where I needed to keep track of available IPs related to an AWS EKS cluster an...
Frequently asked tech career questions
I’ve reached the point in my career and have enough gray hair that people sometimes ask me for career...
Which Kubernetes Container Probe Should I Use?
As you lean into your Kubernetes (k8s) cluster’s self-healing capabilities, one of the first concepts...
You are not your code
You… are not your code. You are not your configs, your documentation, your blog posts, your conferenc...
You probably shouldn’t be using Kubernetes for your new startup
Kubernetes (k8s) is awesome. I am a fan. I like it so much I have a k8s-themed license plate on my ca...
Kubernetes EC2 autoscaling for fun and profit
I’m drawn to the puzzles of distributed systems and abstracted platforms – the problems that only cro...
What I love about SRE
My childhood was soaked in science. As I learned the alphabet and how to tie my shoes, my dad spent h...
Three qualities of failed microservices
Microservices can be awesome. Splitting up your monolith to scale services independently, accelerate...
How to lower your AWS EC2 bill
Because spinning up VMs in the cloud is so easy, it’s equally easy for your monthly bill to scale up...
How to leave a job the right way
Leaving a job is hard, and oddly enough, it gets harder each time you do it. When you’re new to the...
Hype isn’t a use case
Boring tools are the best tools.
Design your systems as if they’re already on fire
The quickest path to failure is to try to prevent failure.
How to get started with DevOps
Be intentional, plan against concrete goals - and you'll be able to focus on interesting, valuable work.
Dirty secrets of DevOps
Everyone talks about DevOps success, no one talks about the pain.
Automation is not DevOps
A few years ago, if you would have asked me to define DevOps, my answer would have sounded something like “Mumble mumble automation, mumble, automation, mumble mumble, infrastructure-as-code, mumble mumble, strategery.”
Admit your struggles, help others
My worst grades in K-12 and university were all for math classes. Algebra, trig, calc… they all made me feel stupid to a point of hopelessness. I got the basics, but as soon as things started getting abstract, I lost my grip.
Empathy in Dev and Ops
You read through the code. You read it again to make sure you understand what it’s doing. Your left eye starts twitching. You read the code a third time.“WTF was wrong with the person who wrote this?”