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Operations
The latest ideas, practices, and trends for improving your business through operations.
Building a Better Middleman
What is a middleman? And why do they have such a sour reputation?
The Sobering Truth About the Impact of Your Business Ideas
Where Programming, Ops, AI, and the Cloud are Headed in 2021
Following O'Reilly online learning trends to see what's coming next.
Cultivating production excellence
Liz Fong-Jones says management of complex distributed systems requires changing who's involved in production, how they collaborate, and how success is measured.
The cloud native elephant in the room
Bob Quillin outlines how the cloud native community can reduce complexity, be more inclusive to all teams, and create a more open, multicloud future.
How do we heal?
Drawing inspiration from restorative justice practices and her own journey of healing, Alex Qin offers a hopeful vision for how we can come together and co-create the world we yearn for.
Infrastructure first: Because solving complex problems needs more than technology
Drawing from technology, finance, sports, social psychology, and complexity theory, Everett Harper looks at the key practices that are crucial for solving our most critical challenges.
Kubernetes for the impatient
Bridget Kromhout looks over the cloud native landscape and talks about what’s new, what’s next, and what you need to get started with Kubernetes right now.
From puzzles to products
Jessica Kerr argues that most programming careers aren’t about writing software, they’re about changing it.
Community projects inform enterprise products
Lachlan Evenson and Bridget Kromhout discuss the journey to build Gatekeeper, a community-driven approach for enforcing policy on any Kubernetes cluster.
The SRE I aspire to be
Yaniv Aknin dives into the secret sauce for a successful SRE organization: high-quality measurements of reliability.
Channel into the universe of eventually perfect distributed systems
Modern distributed systems are immensely different from distributed systems of just a decade ago. Lena Hall looks at how our approaches and practices progress with time.
Velocity keynote highlights
Experts explore cloud native infrastructure, SRE, distributed systems, and more.
Scaling teams with technology (or is it the other way around?)
Chen Goldberg shares how Kubernetes, Istio, GKE, and Anthos can help build distributed systems and happy teams.
State of cloud native infrastructure adoption
Survey results reveal the path organizations face as they integrate cloud native infrastructure and harness the full power of the cloud.
9 trends to watch in systems engineering and operations
From artificial intelligence to serverless to Kubernetes, here’s what's on our radar.
The misinformation age
Jane Adams examines the ways data-driven recruiting fails to achieve intended results and perpetuates discriminatory hiring practices.
The freedom of Kubernetes
Kris Nova looks at the new era of the cloud native space and the kernel that has made it all possible: Kubernetes.
What changes when we go offline-first?
Martin Kleppmann shows how recent computer science research is helping develop the abstractions and APIs for the next generation of applications.
Learning from the web of life
Claire Janisch looks at some of the best biomimicry opportunities inspired by nature’s software and wetware.
Kubernetes: Good or evil? The ethics of data centers
Anne Currie says excessive and dirty energy use in data centers is one of the biggest ethical issues facing the tech industry.
Incognito mentorship
Katrina Owen says the valuable skills that experienced professionals lack are at the vital margins of their careers.
Highlights from the O’Reilly Velocity Conference in London 2018
Watch highlights from expert talks covering Kubernetes, chaos engineering, deep learning, and more.