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Brendan Gregg has a lot of good stuff about monitoring and performance analysis https://brendangregg.com/ https://github.com/brendangregg
Also Jess Frazelle (lots of good stuff, esp around containerization): https://blog.jessfraz.com/ https://github.com/jessfraz
A progression of projects that comes to mind: 1) CI and IAC that deploy a web app running in a container 2) Add horizontal scaling and load balancer 3) Add long running tasks / scheduled task support 4) Deploys will likely break long running tasks. Implement blue/green or rolling deploys or some other sort of advanced deployment scheme 5) Implement rollbacks
Infrastructure for gov cloud is another beast and might make a fun case study
Quite a strong cast of presenters back in Jan 2024 https://cs153.stanford.edu/syllabus.html
thanks for noticing! this is the first time we're expanding it from 'security at scale' to 'infra at scale', but we've taught this course 2 yrs in a row now
A progression of projects that comes to mind: 1) CI and IAC that deploy a web app running in a container 2) Add horizontal scaling and load balancer 3) Add long running tasks / scheduled task support 4) Deploys will likely break long running tasks. Implement blue/green or rolling deploys or some other sort of advanced deployment scheme 5) Implement rollbacks
7) Alarms
2/ Build a multi-cloud architecture. And by this, I mean connect two cloud's networks without traversing the public internet to connect two applications running in each respective cloud. And then, put that into IaC. It sounds like not much, but the issues you uncover are pretty illuminating and it is a fantastic interview question to give to senior-ish infra guys to see how they approach it and the challenges they ex…
Marc Brooker @mjb https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=mjb