DevOps & Cloud blogs

Cloudflare's engineering and policy team posts on network infrastructure, security incidents, DDoS attacks, and internet protocols.

Top post: Why We Terminated Daily Stormer

GitHub's official blog, covering product updates, security notices, platform availability, and developer features.

Top post: No Cookie for You

Microsoft's Tech Community hosts official posts from product teams on Windows, Azure, Microsoft 365, Edge, and enterprise administration.

Top post: Lambda: Turn Excel formulas into custom functions

Tailscale's company blog explains how its mesh VPN works, with deep technical posts on NAT traversal, plus product and pricing updates.

Top post: How NAT Traversal Works (2020)

Fly.io's company blog, with technical posts on hosting, networking, SQLite, distributed systems, and opinions on AI.

Top post: Pricing

Rachel Kroll writes about her experience in systems engineering, covering debugging, operations, reliability, and software oddities.

Top post: W

The blog of Fastmail, a paid email hosting company, covering outages, pricing, privacy, and features like aliases and catchall addresses.

Top post: Pricing

Microsoft's TechNet blogs carry official posts on Windows Server, licensing, PowerShell, Exchange, patents, and research announcements.

Top post: Microsoft calls WebGL "harmful"

Red Hat's developer site publishes articles on Linux, compilers, containers, Kubernetes, and RHEL developer subscriptions.

Top post: No-Cost Red Hat Enterprise Linux Individual Developer Subscription: FAQs

Chris Siebenmann, a sysadmin at the University of Toronto, writes short technical notes on Unix, Go, storage, and running servers.

Top post: I think you shouldn't digitally sign things casually

Netflix engineers write about architecture, performance debugging, video encoding, and resilience on the company's engineering blog.

Top post: The Netflix Cosmos Platform: Orchestrated Functions as a Microservice

Netflix engineers write about cloud infrastructure, resilience testing, performance analysis, and recommendations, with early posts on Chaos Monkey and AWS.

Top post: Chaos Monkey released into the wild

Google's cloud team announces products and explains infrastructure such as Spanner, TPUs, and security hardening.

Top post: Google supercharges machine learning tasks with TPU custom chip

The Heroku engineering and product blog, covering platform announcements, Ruby performance, add-ons like Kafka and language support.

Top post: Ruby 3x3: Matz, Koichi, and Tenderlove on the Future of Ruby Performance

The CoreOS company blog on its container-focused Linux distribution, etcd, fleet, rkt and Kubernetes tooling.

Top post: CoreOS is building a container runtime, Rocket

Werner Vogels, Amazon's CTO, writes about distributed systems, AWS services, the Dynamo paper and engineering leadership.

Top post: Dynamo: Amazon’s Highly Available Key-Value Store (2007) [pdf]

Official blog of Docker, announcing releases, features, acquisitions, and container orchestration plans.

Top post: Containers and Docker: how secure are they?

Microsoft's official TechNet blogs cover Windows, SQL Server, security guidance and engineering announcements from various teams.

Top post: Me too

Confluent's blog covers Apache Kafka, event streaming, and data infrastructure, including posts by Kafka creators and Martin Kleppmann on stream processing.

Top post: Turning the database inside-out with Apache Samza (2015)

Joyent's blog covers its cloud platform, SmartOS, Manta object storage, and Node.js production experience.

Top post: The Power of a Pronoun

Datadog's blog covers its monitoring platform, engineering work like the Husky event store, and reports on cloud, container, and serverless adoption.

Top post: Husky, Datadog's Third-Generation Event Store

The CNCF blog covers the Cloud Native Computing Foundation, which hosts Kubernetes, Prometheus, and other open source cloud infrastructure projects.

Top post: CNCF and Synadia Align on Securing the Future of the Nats.io Project

The GNU Guix project blog covers the Guix package manager, system distribution, and work on bootstrapping software from source.

Top post: Full-Source Bootstrap: Building Linux from source all the way down (2023)

Official Amazon Web Services blog announcing new features, pricing changes, and how-to guides for S3, EC2, and related services.

Top post: Host Your Static Website on Amazon S3

A Medium publication run by Gitconnected with articles by many authors on programming, cloud, careers, and software trends.

Top post: AWS Lambda Cold Start Language Comparisons

The CircleCI engineering blog covers continuous integration, incident reports, security incidents, and engineering practices at the company.

Top post: “It's The Future”

The CodeSandbox blog covers the online code editor company's engineering, especially cloning and scaling microVMs, plus product news.

Top post: We clone a running VM in 2 seconds

The engineering and company blog of PlanetScale, a hosted database company, covering MySQL, Postgres, indexes, and Go performance.

Top post: Generics can make your Go code slower

The security company CrowdStrike's blog, covering threat intelligence, intrusion analyses, and its post-incident reviews of the July 2024 outage.

Top post: Bears in the Midst: Intrusion into the Democratic National Committee

The blog of Snyk, a security company that scans open-source dependencies for vulnerabilities, with reports on npm, JVM, and Node.js security.

Top post: NPM package compromised by author: erases files on RU / BY computers on install

Engine Yard's company blog, covering its Ruby on Rails hosting platform, PostgreSQL, Puppet, and infrastructure practices.

Top post: Pets vs cattle

The blog of FP Complete, a Haskell consultancy, with tutorials on Haskell and Rust and functional programming concepts.

Top post: Monads and GATs in Nightly Rust

Xe Iaso, a self-described technophilosopher, writes on Nix, infrastructure, AI scrapers, and software work, and built the Anubis bot blocker.

Top post: Block AI Scrapers with Anubis proof-of-work

Official Google Cloud Platform blog with product launches, pricing changes, and infrastructure announcements.

Top post: An update on container support on Google Cloud Platform

Increment is Stripe's magazine on how teams build and operate software systems at scale, with each issue on one theme.

Top post: The future of work is written

Crunchy Data's blog, from a Postgres provider, offers tips, performance findings, and features for PostgreSQL and its analytics integrations.

Top post: Postgres support for JSON is 10 years old

Netflix engineers write about the company's infrastructure, including containers, content delivery, data caching, notebooks, and security.

Top post: Beyond Interactive: Notebook Innovation at Netflix

Corey Quinn writes a newsletter and blog on AWS and cloud costs, mixing sarcasm with practical analysis of cloud services.

Top post: Azure’s Security Vulnerabilities Are Out of Control

Amazon Web Services distinguished engineer who writes about data center design, AWS infrastructure, networking, and large-scale systems.

Top post: AWS Nitro System

Canonical's blog for Ubuntu announcements, covering releases, snaps, ZFS, containers, and security updates.

Top post: Growing Ubuntu for Cloud and IoT, Rather Than Phone and Convergence

Wiz's company blog publishes cloud security research, including vulnerability disclosures in Azure and exposed databases at AI companies.

Top post: ChaosDB Explained: Azure's Cosmos DB Vulnerability Walkthrough

Company blog of SpiderOak, a maker of encrypted backup, sync and sharing software, covering its products and privacy engineering choices.

Top post: Engineering matters

VMware's official blogs, covering virtualization products such as Workstation and Fusion, along with announcements and technical guidance.

Top post: VMware Fusion and Workstation Are Now Free for All Users

Atlassian's blog covers Git workflows and tools, the Git versus Mercurial debate, Docker deployment, and company announcements including a security breach.

Top post: Git? tig

Code as Craft is Etsy's engineering blog, covering blameless postmortems, deployment, monitoring, HTTPS management, and engineering culture.

Top post: Blameless post-mortems and a just culture (2012)

Mesosphere's company blog covered Apache Mesos, Marathon, and its Datacenter Operating System, with news on container and cluster tooling.

Top post: Apple details J.A.R.V.I.S., the Apache Mesos framework that runs Siri

Charity Majors, an engineer and Honeycomb cofounder, writes on engineering management, observability, operations and startups.

Top post: The Engineer/Manager Pendulum

Jessie Frazelle, a former Docker core developer, writes on containers, sandboxing, firmware security, and low-level systems.

Top post: Docker Containers on the Desktop

Sentry's company blog covering its error-monitoring product, Rust and Python engineering work, and its open source licensing decisions.

Top post: Re-Licensing Sentry

The official Google App Engine team blog, announcing SDK releases, features, and platform news for the hosted app platform.

Top post: Happy Holidays from the App Engine team - 1.4.0 SDK released

Tweag, a software engineering firm, writes about Nix, Haskell, WebAssembly, Bazel, and functional programming.

Top post: Organist: Stay sane managing your development environments

New Relic's company blog covers application performance monitoring, web performance, Rails, Docker, and engineering lessons from its own team.

Top post: Ruby on Rails - State of the Stack

Phusion, the company behind the Passenger app server, writes about Rails, Docker, containers, and running a bootstrapped open source business.

Top post: Docker and the PID 1 zombie reaping problem

Codeship's company blog on continuous integration and delivery, covering Docker, Go, Elixir, Crystal and tech stack decisions.

Top post: Growing Your Tech Stack: When to Say No

Nick Craver, a former Stack Overflow engineer, writes detailed posts on the site's architecture, hardware, monitoring, caching and deployment.

Top post: Stack Overflow: The Architecture – 2016 Edition

Microsoft's corporate cloud blogs cover product announcements on Windows, Linux, SQL Server, Rust, security and machine learning.

Top post: Sql server on linux how introduction

Yelp's engineers write about infrastructure and open-source tools, including HAProxy, Docker init, data pipelines, and image compression.

Top post: True Zero-Downtime HAProxy Reloads

NCC Group is a security consultancy whose blog and whitepapers cover cryptography, container security, and hardware keystore attacks.

Top post: JavaScript Cryptography Considered Harmful (2011)

Linode's company blog announces hosting plans, hardware upgrades, and security incidents for its virtual server service.

Top post: Security incident update

Google's blog for business and education customers of Google Apps, covering product updates, browser support, and service announcements.

Top post: Google Encrypted Search Moved to New Hostname to Address Concerns from Schools