[HN Gopher] Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs
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       Good CI/CD and SRE Blogs
        
       Are there any good blogs that focus on CI/CD pipelines and SRE
       without a ton of fluff?  I feel like the space moves fast, and I
       need a way to keep up with it better. In an ideal world I would
       want to see best practices for different tools, and pipelines so I
       can evaluate them and adopt what makes sense.
        
       Author : 100011_100001
       Score  : 172 points
       Date   : 2022-09-16 11:59 UTC (11 hours ago)
        
       | adamgordonbell wrote:
       | I'm not sure about SRE specific or CI specific writing but at
       | risk of answering another question, here's what comes to mind for
       | me.
       | 
       | In the Operations space my favorite writer is Charity Majors,
       | although a lot of what she talks about isn't OPs specific:
       | 
       | https://charity.wtf/
       | 
       | Rachel by the Bay is also great:
       | 
       | https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
       | 
       | Totally not related, but Phil Eaton's posts on how databases work
       | are super interesting and lack fluff.
       | 
       | https://notes.eatonphil.com/
       | 
       | In terms of CI and builds, I try to write some on this topic for
       | the Earthly Blog. My Bazel article was recently on Hn. Here are
       | my posts:
       | 
       | https://earthly.dev/blog/authors/adam/
       | 
       | Warning though, I also write about lots of other stuff. Are there
       | specific CI topics you'd like to see covered?
        
         | hashar wrote:
         | > https://earthly.dev/blog/bazel-build/
         | 
         | That is a good read thank you.
        
         | eatonphil wrote:
         | Kind of you to share, Adam! You have awesome podcast episodes
         | as well!
        
       | oxff wrote:
       | It seems always to be too specific to an org. to have a general
       | transferable knowledge to share? Kind of.
        
         | 100011_100001 wrote:
         | Some specifics sure. I'm looking more into general trends like
         | when creating a Docker image it's a good idea to X, Y, Z and we
         | use this tool to satisfy X.
         | 
         | Or Docker images have K, L problems that Podman doesn't have.
         | However Podman has W issue so you have to decide which pain you
         | want to live with.
         | 
         | That kind of stuff.
        
       | eliranw wrote:
       | Good question, would love to also know about some great blogs
        
       | tomfern wrote:
       | I write a lot about CI/CD at my job (unsurprising as we are a CI
       | service). While we do have some articles about our platform
       | itself, most of the articles you'll find are more general:
       | 
       | https://semaphoreci.com/category/engineering
       | 
       | We also have a podcast about engineering that frequently touches
       | CI/CD as a topic:
       | 
       | https://semaphoreci.com/podcast
        
         | tomfern wrote:
         | You'll find that most articles touch CI/CD if they are not
         | outright about CI/CD fundamentals.
        
       | derfabianpeter wrote:
       | https://microplatforms.de is a growing collection of
       | DevOps/Platform Engineering/SRE content.
        
       | jjtang1 wrote:
       | For all things SRE and incident management:
       | https://rootly.com/blog
        
       | excitednumber wrote:
       | Same.
       | 
       | Even just a maintained "start to finish" of what someone thinks
       | is current best practice for project development would be a
       | fantastic resource.
        
       | sluongng wrote:
       | I started a series recently
       | https://sluongng.hashnode.dev/series/bazel-in-ci with focus on
       | setting up Bazel in CI. But I has been trying to write more about
       | CI and the culture around DevX more than Bazel to provide the
       | context for future posts.
        
       | oneplane wrote:
       | The biggest issue (for me when writing about it) is that it's
       | really hard to do this when most keys and values in any source or
       | screenshot are internal to the company. I could go and clean it
       | up with placeholder data, but at that point I'm essentially doing
       | my work twice.
        
       | musha68k wrote:
       | "Software at Scale" podcast often has great systems related
       | interviews as well:
       | 
       | https://www.softwareatscale.dev/podcast
        
       | upg1979 wrote:
       | Check this repo for SRE https://github.com/upgundecha/howtheysre
        
       | brettanomyces wrote:
       | https://medium.com/wise-engineering/state-of-our-ci-cd-pipel...
       | 
       | Disclaimer: I work for Wise
        
         | 100011_100001 wrote:
         | Out of curiosity, I see that opening a PR triggers an automatic
         | branch build, when the code is merge into master is your build
         | process repeated?
         | 
         | If not, which is what the diagram implies, how do you handle
         | two branches with two PRs trying to get merged in, since there
         | is a chance that they will create conflicts with each other. Do
         | you force branch tests sequentially?
        
       | privacywiki wrote:
       | Check this out if you are into podcasts;
       | https://sre.google/prodcast/
        
       | la_fayette wrote:
       | https://m.youtube.com/c/TechWorldwithNana
        
       | TotoHorner wrote:
       | - Quastor (https://www.quastor.org/) - Moreso focused on backend
       | engineering but they have a lot of SRE content too. It's a
       | newsletter that looks at all the big tech engineering blogs and
       | sends out summaries of the interesting posts.
       | 
       | - SRE Weekly (https://sreweekly.com/) - Curation newsletter on
       | interesting links in SRE
       | 
       | - SRE Prodcast (https://sre.google/prodcast/) - Good podcast by
       | Google on SRE. They pick a specific topic and then interview an
       | expert on that so each episode is well focused. They also provide
       | transcripts so you can just read through it instead of listening.
       | 
       | - Resilience in Action
       | (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/resilience-in-action/i...)
       | - Another good podcast on SRE with interviews.
       | 
       | If you just want a listen of resources, then you should check out
       | the Awesome SRE repo on github -
       | https://github.com/dastergon/awesome-sre
        
         | 100011_100001 wrote:
         | Good stuff. Thanks. This seems to be along the lines of what I
         | was looking for.
        
         | ankaAr wrote:
         | Nice, thanks!
        
       | jeffwask wrote:
       | https://www.youtube.com/c/AntonBabenkoLive
        
       | riffic wrote:
       | on a related note, but are there good resources for DevOps/SRE
       | specifically in the public sector (state/county/city/federal
       | gov)?
        
       | dev_0 wrote:
       | No Martin Fowler please. He doesn't work on real projects now
        
         | solarengineer wrote:
         | While it is true that Martin is not a full-time programmer, all
         | his blog posts are reviewed in our software development mailing
         | list. He solicits opinions, introduces amendments based on
         | feedback and has on ocassion even stepped back from publishing
         | an article.
         | 
         | (Source: I am a Thoughtworker since 2006).
        
           | dev_0 wrote:
           | His blogs are marketing for Thoughtworks......How things are
           | in theory is different from the actual practices....
        
         | 411111111111111 wrote:
         | Martin Fowler has never worked in ci/CD and SRE, nor has he
         | ever written anything on the subject.
        
           | dev_0 wrote:
           | https://martinfowler.com/tags/continuous%20delivery.html
           | 
           | Wrong
        
             | 411111111111111 wrote:
             | Damn, i stand corrected.
             | 
             | I've never come across any of these articles, even though I
             | quiet often came upon his programming articles.
             | 
             | Sorry for my ignorance.
        
             | Rexxar wrote:
             | It doesn't seems surprising a 2006 article is not up to
             | date with latest ideas.
        
       | ledgerdev wrote:
       | I like the tiny devops guy, lots of practical talk.
       | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC5UfX0EgUWlcdQ2RDsq_fcA
       | https://jhall.io/media/
        
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