PinnedHow do you decide when something is ready for production?When an SRE team is taking service to production, they take over the responsibility of managing the service and would like to clarify all operational aspects to ease the journey. In my opinion, different organizations might choose to involve the SRE ...Apr 11, 2022·2 min read·73
Why is deployment better than a replication controller?Here's why... Control Deployments give you more control over the deployment process. You can specify how the pods are updated, and you can roll back to a previous version if necessary. Scalability Deployments are more scalable than replication co...Mar 30, 2021·2 min read·17
How do CDN edge locations serve you based on proximity?When a browser makes a DNS request for a site that is served by a CDN, the server handling the DNS request looks at the request to determine the best server to handle the request. It does a geographical lookup based on the IP of the client and respon...Mar 13, 2021·1 min read·28
What is an Autonomous System and an Autonomous System Number?The Internet exists because of Autonomous Systems (ASes), and each Autonomous System is identified by an Autonomous System Number (ASN). An autonomous system is a collection of connected Internet Protocol (IP) routing prefixes (or routers) under the ...Mar 10, 2021·2 min read·21
What is HSTS, and what is the HSTS list?HSTS stands for HTTP Strict Transport Security. When the browser finds the HSTS header in the server response, the HSTS basically asks the browser to access the website using HTTPS on port 443. And any future attempts to access the website should be...Feb 3, 2021·1 min read·15
What are SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs?SLIs, SLOs, and SLAs are all important terms in the world of service-level management for Site Reliability Engineers and Business teams alike. They are all interrelated, but they each have a different purpose. SLI stands for Service Level Indicator ...Jan 15, 2021·2 min read·16
