Roblox's technical infrastructure has experienced significant growth and complexity as the platform has expanded over the years. Currently supporting over 70 million daily active users, Roblox is focused on increasing the resilience of its infrastructure to prevent system-wide outages and ensure a h.. read more  

Public clouds offer businesses the opportunity to break free from the IT quagmire and improve their infrastructure without worrying about expensive servers. With the ability to define almost everything in software, cloud deployments become easier to manage and track changes. Additionally, public clo.. read more  

Amazon's cloud event, re:Invent 2023, featured exciting announcements such as a new generative AI assistant called Amazon Q, next-generation AWS-designed chips for faster and more energy-efficient workloads, and powerful capabilities for Amazon Bedrock to customize models and execute multistep tasks.. read more  

Customers often struggle with implementing Blue/Green deployments to Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) using AWS CodeDeploy, especially in cross-Region and cross-account deployment scenarios. The author discusses specific design decisions and introduces CDK Pipelines as a solution to aut.. read more  

The new testing framework for Terraform allows you to test your Terraform configurations using Terraform itself, running plan and apply commands to create actual infrastructure. This framework is declarative and uses the same language as the rest of your infrastructure, eliminating the need for thir.. read more  

Knock recently upgraded from Postgres 11.9 to 15.3 with zero downtime using logical replication, support scripts, and tools in Elixir & Erlang’s BEAM virtual machine. They planned the upgrade well in advance, minimizing customer impact and ensuring a smooth transition by gradually migrating tables a.. read more  

AI is becoming an inevitable necessity in the world of software engineering, particularly in observability where complexity often surpasses comprehension. The Pyroscope team used AI to make flamegraph analysis intuitive, even for beginners, by comparing the interpretations of humans and AI when give.. read more  

Delivering better software, faster remains the primary goal for DevOps teams heading into 2024. However, it's important to remember that DevOps is not just about technology, but about removing the friction between silos and promoting teamwork... read more  

Recent resignations from Amazon have been sparked by the company's strict return-to-office mandate, known as the Return to Hub (RTH) policy, which requires employees to work in designated team hubs instead of their nearest office location, causing dissatisfaction and poor communication surrounding t.. read more