2 nice tools for drawing cloud diagrams

Was looking for something like that for a while, and saw today these 2 nice tools that help create and visualize cloud architectures: 1. cloudcraft.co – more mature and nicer, but AWS only 2. cloudmaker.ai – new, more issues, pros: has unlimited grid on free tier and support for all 3 – Azure, AWS, GCP,… Continue reading 2 nice tools for drawing cloud diagrams

DevOps KPIs: Distance between latest and oldest production versions

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about the subject of KPIs that should be used in DevOps. Among them, maybe the most important is the number of different versions the team has to maintain at a time. This particular indicator frequently comes to the top of my list. To me, this indicator mainly resembles Army… Continue reading DevOps KPIs: Distance between latest and oldest production versions

SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor

While I personally prefer CalVer, SemVer is still actively used for many projects and quite frequently I work on it. If SemVer is used for something that is deployed to production, one rule I’ve made is to always keep each distinct production on its own minor version. If we have only one production environment or… Continue reading SemVer in production – always keep separate production branch on its own minor