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    • Team Nimbus and the Agents of Chaos

      A post about my team’s first venture into running a Chaos Day — a series of chaos experiments against our platform

      This blog post is about my team’s first ever Chaos Day - where we ran a series of experiments designed to test how our platform performed when we tried to disrupt it, or the workloads that run on it.

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    My blog about interesting technology - and in particular Cloud Platforms & Services, and my experiences with them

    Recent Posts

    Creating an up-to-date Distroless Python Image

    How I created a Distroless Container Image for Python, without relying on the out-dated Google version

    Hosting Plausible Analytics on Kubernetes

    How to run Plausible Analytics - a less angry version of Google Analytics - self-hosted on your own Kubernetes cluster

    Docker Desktop Alternatives for M1 Mac

    A few options, including my preference, for replacing Docker Desktop on newer M1 Macs running Apple Silicon

    Developer-Friendly Runbooks: A Guide

    A guide to creating an easy-to-use, developer-friendly runbook site to help improve operability

    Some Musings From KubeCon EU 2021 (Virtual Edition)

    Thoughts and scribbles after attending a whole bunch of talks at KubeCon EU 2021